Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The magazine features worldwide science and technology news, Internet science site reviews, and an overview of science and technology jobs every week. This archive contains over 600 questions on scientific phenomena, with answers provided by the magazine readers. For ease in searching for specific topics, the archive is divided into nine broad sections, each with an index of questions. The nine sections include plants and animals, around the house, and mysteries and illusions, in addition to gadgets and inventions, your body, and inside machines.
Additional topics covered include bubbles, liquids and ice, the physical world, and strange nature.
Users can browse through the entries on this site using the detailed index associated with each section, or they can search the archive by typing keywords. Each entry is clear and concise, featuring about a page of straightforward explanatory text. In sample entries, students learn why Britain is sinking in the south and rising in the north as the result of isostatic rebound process, why rockets take off straight up, and why penguins do not get frostbite on their feet. In addition to browsing the archive, visitors can answer the unanswered questions, comment on the other answers, or post their own questions by clicking on the read postbox icon. A link to the New Scientist homepage is also provided.