Recent new things:

• Sugar significantly slows how quickly bumblebees can barf up their nectar

  Like you, bees are attracted to sweeter, more sugary food.

• Research shows wrapping paper works for and against our enjoyment of gifts

  No matter how personal, useful or exciting a gift may be, it can surely be made even better with the right wrapping to cover it all up.

• The story of color-coded traffic signals and apparent disregard of color-blind drivers

  My kids and I were recently staring at a traffic light, although apparently we weren’t really seeing the same thing.

• Curious George’s impressive predictions for primate participation in Project Mercury

  It would obviously be absurd to suggest that NASA planned the Mercury space program on H.A. and Margret Rey’s children’s book, Curious George Gets a Medal.

• Moonmoons: scientists look at the likelyhood of moons of moons

  Moons can be inert pieces of rock, hunks of ice or volcanically active.