Rock&Gem Magazine
CURLING STONES TAKE CENTER ICE AT THE OLYMPICS
When the 2026 Winter Olympics open in Italy in February, nearly 3,000 athletes from 91 countries will be vying for medals, most in the various disciplines of the marquee sports of skiing, skating, snowboarding and bobsledding.
4 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
THE LIZZADRO MUSEUM'S MICRO WORLD
Florentine & Roman Mosaics
7 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
Cable Quakes
Fiber optics that connect the world can detect its earthquakes, too
2 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Flashes in the Night
Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers are just beginning to understand them
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
"Use Your Words" Can Be Good for Kids' Health
Writing or expressing feelings can help adults mentally and physically. Kids are no different
5 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Mondays Really Are More Stressful
The start of the workweek can be a biologically measurable stressor, with consequences for long-term health that can stretch into retirement
4 min |
January 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Just How Fast Were Dinosaurs?
We need new ways to run the numbers!
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
When We Get to Another Planet,
Send in the robots!
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
"Lab Quakes” Produce Surprising Results
When faults let loose and earthquakes result, the main effect we mortals experience is the violent shaking.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Parsing Out What Dinosaurs Ate
It's all in the teeth.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
California's PATRIOTIC COMBO
Black, White & Blue? Try Red Instead!
8 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Scrap Jewelry in Today's Market What's It Good For?
Gold is everywhere in the news these days.
6 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
OUR ROBOTIC PICTURE
Will mechanical helpers ever be commonplace at home, at work and beyond?
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
The Reptile Sexpocalypse
The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate. Global warming could doom them
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
A Suite of Killers
Heart ailments, kidney diseases and type 2 diabetes actually may be part of just one condition. It's called CKM syndrome
10 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Behind the Nobel
A 2025 winner reflects on the mysterious T cells that won him the prize
5 min |
January 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Switzerland's ICE PALACE
Walk Inside a Glacier at The Top of Europe
7 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Ignorosphere Surfers
SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVISED tiny featherweight disks that could float freely in Earth's mesosphere or the thin air of Mars, theoretically even while carrying payloads.
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Huntington's Hopes
After years of heartbreak, a new treatment slows this devastating disease
4 min |
January 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
VICTORIA STONE
Victoria Stone is one of those materials that immediately captures the attention of observers because of its inherent beauty and also because of its increasing scarcity on the market.
4 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
Static Launch
Tiny worms leap toward their fruit fly hosts with an electric “tractor beam”
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Think Again
Chimpanzees can weigh evidence and update their beliefs like humans do
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
What's on the Horizon for 2026
These are the science topics that we think will be big this year
6 min |
January 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
A New Amber Locality Fills a Gap
A sandstone quarry in central Ecuador has yielded the first significant deposit of Mesozoic amber from South America.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Is Earth Rusting the Moon??
The Moon resides nearly a quarter of a million miles from Earth, give or take, but that great distance doesn't appear to protect it from Earth's \"pollution.\" According to several space and planetary scientists, the Moon is rusting, and oxygen from Earth is to blame.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Satellites High in Space Suggest Changes Deep in Earth
High above us in space are twin satellites dubbed GRACE, for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. One pair orbited between 2002 and 2017 before running out of battery power.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
TOP 10 AMERICAN LEAGUE
Coming off successive postseason appearances, the Tigers are poised to get even feistier in 2026.
10 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
TREY YESAVAGE RHP
Over three seasons at East Carolina, Yesavage went from a reliever to a key piece of the Pirates' rotation.
10+ min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
MLB MANAGER OF THE YEAR PAT MURPHY, BREWERS
Murphy is the man in the middle of the Brewers' recent run of success, with division titles in both of his seasons at the helm and an MLB-best 97 wins in 2025
3 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
TONY GWYNN AWARD ERIC KUBOTA, ATHLETICS
From media relations intern to area scout to scouting director, Eric Kubota has built a lasting legacy in his four decades with the Athletics
6 min |