• Animals - 67 bks.
• Archaeology - 3 bks.
• Cutting Edge - 20 bks.
• Earth Science - 30 bks.

• Exploring your World - 32 bks.
• Health - 33 bks.
• Life Science - 16 bks.
• Math - 4 bks.

• Other - 61 bks.
• Space - 41 bks.
• Technology - 22 bks.

Can it halt global warming? Stop a killer asteroid? Alleviate world hunger, thirst, cancer? A look at the problems facing our world, and the science and scientists who might solve …

Why is blue, blue? Why does the color red make us hungry? The physics, chemistry, technology, and psychology of color.

Features include: Dollars and Cents, It's a Deal, Spend or Save?, Minty Fresh Coins, A Bill's Life, Very Interest-ing

From bartering to banking, everyone uses something for exchange. As cattle and cowrie shells gave way to precious metals, which in turn were substituted by promissory notes, the co …

Features include: Scoops, Nestor's Dock, Ask Jimmy and the Bug, Marvin and Friends, Way Back to School, Why Practice, Lessons for Little Ones, Which Type of Learner Are You?, Bird …

Whether you're shooting the luge at the Winter Olympics or "catching big air" like the dirt biker on our cover, it takes a lot to be the best in an extreme sport. How does science …

Features include: Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall...and Night?, Why Darkness Falls, That Spooky Night, At Home in the Dark, Moonlight, Glow in the Dark

How our brains compute language; how language evolved; how we learn it; language disorders; simulating language (talking robots); animal communication.

Clutch piracy in amphibians, frigate birds, pirates of the air; celestial navigation, computer spammers, pirates, and hackers; seafloor mapping, art piracy and science detection, s …

All animals do it, and some even use it "- to build homes, hide from enemies, attract mates, send messages, and cool off. Some even eat it. Forensic applications, Turd Trivia, Pand …

Features Include: Learning to Speak, English as She is Spoke, A Lost Language, The Poetry Machine, A Made-Up Language, Many Languages

Wizards of detection, professional lie-catchers, what makes a smile true, an advanced face-reading test, and many additional facts on the matter comprise Deception Detection in thi …

Every curious kid eventually looks up into the night sky and asks what it’s all about. Let Jack Horkheimer, host of PBS’s Star Gazer, give them the big picture in this wonderful fa …

Neural roots of identity, animals and identity, identity theft, technology and identity.

Tornadoes, galaxies, earthquakes, ocean vortices, knot math, DNA, dust devils.

Ever wonder why something that costs just 5.7 cents to make (that’s a one-dollar bill!) is worth so much? Money talks in this issue, revealing the history of money, from cows to co …

Features include: Perfect Partners, Blabbermouth, At Your Service!, Where's the Honey, Honey?, Garden Friends, The Whales of Twofold Bay