Articles by Kelsey Kennedy

Changes in their behavior tell brewers whether their water is clean enough.

Climate may have played a bigger role than previously thought.

It wasn't always under all that water.

It swims, it slithers, and it samples.

It can make a Chardonnay taste like an ashtray, thanks to chemistry.

The white Guinea yam's genome could help researchers make a staple crop hardier.

New images could help scientists better understand how the flies transmit deadly sleeping sickness.

It's kind of a comet and kind of an asteroid that orbits itself, and it could tell us something about early Earth.

A sexological tale of static electricity, male contraception, and dogs in pants.

Tracking the policy changes in Europe and Mexico that caused a charming green plague.

Winds up to 185 miles per hour stripped trees bare, but the vegetation will gradually return.

Monkeys using tools in Thailand might be driving their prey to extinction.

"It’s going to take a while for everything to dissipate."

Cassini isn't the first space probe to go out in a blaze of glory—and it won't be the last.

Conservation efforts and correcting an estimation error mean the elusive cats are now considered vulnerable.

Mixed nuts are for amateurs.

Fire scientists can now create 3D images of the behavior of flames in certain conditions.

NASA's lightning-mapping satellite might help predict the behavior of massive storms.

The little rodents make a lot of noise, mostly out of the range of human hearing.

The Perlan 2 glider team is aiming much, much higher, and doing science on the way.

A German diary from 1859 might point the way to a geothermal wonder buried by a volcanic eruption.

The 20-year-old satellite is still sending back images during its swan dive into the planet's atmosphere.

Many genetic mutations, together in one place.

It comes down to the risk of overheating or freezing.