The US and the Soviet Union never engaged in direct combat, but their influences were felt worldwide, including in armed conflicts involving other nations.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Curious Kids US
Displaying 81 - 100 of 225 articles
The rise of e-commerce means billions of packages are delivered in the US each year. That creates traffic and pollution, but urban freight researchers are finding better way to get goods to customers.
For thousands of years, music has been an essential part of the human experience.
While people have wondered about déjà vu for a long time, only recently have scientists started experimentally investigating what might trigger it.
Paying for the stuff you want with currency is way easier than relying on chairs you made or chickens you raised.
Nature begins forming patterns at the molecular level – and sometimes they grow to enormous sizes.
Ant feet are equipped with an array of tools – from retractable sticky pads to claws to special spines and hairs – enabling them to defy gravity and grip virtually any surface.
People wouldn’t last long without the countless other species we depend on for survival.
An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to a set of decadesold equations.
An anthropologist explains some of the many ways animals use their tails, from balancing as they walk to attracting a mate.
A language scientist explains that talking was never invented but has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.
Noise pollution is a serious problem, and cars make a lot of it. But roads are also a factor.
The first hammerhead shark was likely the result of a genetic deformity. A biologist explains how shark DNA reveals hammerheads’ history.
A biologist explains how researchers nail down the age of ancient fossils thanks to a physical process called radioactive decay.
A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of matter that make up everything around you.
The core principle of education is to enable students to become kind, giving and contributing members of their community and the world.
The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.
A terrifying sight in ancient waters, the megalodon shark was once the most feared creature in the sea.
This technology, popular when automobiles first caught on, had a short resurgence in the 1970s.
The Moon illusion is what makes the Moon look giant when you see it rising over a distant horizon. An astronomer explains what causes this awe-inspiring trick of the mind.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Biology, Clarkson University
-
Professor of Astronomy, UMass Lowell
-
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
-
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
-
Doctoral Student in Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina
-
Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
-
Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
-
Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Associate Professor of Physics, University of Richmond
-
Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Oklahoma State University
-
Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
-
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
-
Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education and Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
-
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Boise State University
