Science & Nature

In 1918 Wisconsin, 11-year-old Sterling North has an almost perfect life. He keeps skunks in the backyard, goes everywhere with his enormous ...

Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and ...

If a black hole is not a hole, then what is it? Find out what black holes are, what causes them, and how scientists first discovered them. Le...

Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close-up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle. When an animal lightens its ...

Have you ever wondered just how a glow stick works? Or what about those glow-in-the-dark stars you stick on your ceiling keep on shining? In ...

Discover complex organisms with amazing life cycles that feed on your body, animals and plants all around you.

More than 2,000 years ago, Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang Di was laid to rest in a tomb guarded by thousands of life-size clay statues of warr...

Few activities grip our attention more than animal watching. Dolphins and seals bring us much joy, and sharks and alligators hold us in awe. ...

Berries, apples, melons and grapes; oranges, grapefruits, bananas--yum! This scrumptious collection of facts, a companion to The Vegetables ...

Who knew there were so many different kinds of vegetables? Nonfiction pro Gail Gibbons responds to the need for books on good nutrition with...

Living busily on Planet Earth, we rarely remember that we inhabit only a miniscule part of the universe. In The Planets and The Solar System,...

New York Times bestselling author, award-winning meteorologist, and Today Show co-anchor Al Roker explores extreme weather phenomena in his ...

Host of the popular television show Corwin's Quest, author Jeff Corwin offers this second installment of his Junior Explorer series, The Grea...

Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet.The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument abou...

Rivers wind through the earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 mi...

This close-up look at how scientists keep people safe by predicting and studying natural disasters teaches listeners about hurricanes, floods...

During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book ...

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into s...

Charles Darwin first visited the Gal?pagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could no...

From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the formatio...

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical processes, molecular inte...

The south has its slow rainy season. This recording was done during that season. You can enjoy the light rain for the south. Let your mind...