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There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

How are you making sense of this news? Whether you already understand some of the context or whether it’s all new for you, we hope our free materials can help.

A new robotic picker-upper can roam around freely, like Thing from “The Addams Family.”

What caused the Antarctic explorer’s ship to wreck? A new study contends it may not be what experts thought.

In a proof of concept, researchers demonstrated that they could bioengineer a couple of hours of light into a common plant.

Is your red the same as my red? A study unveils what our brains knows about color.

A lesson plan that invites students to explore how President Trump’s immigration enforcement is affecting their communities.

Did baby talk give rise to language? A new study offers clues.

Explore what our breath reveals about us.

In this lesson, students consider what qualifies as a national emergency and decide how much power presidents should have.