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Ever want to know what that thing is growing on your face—and how it got there? How about what that insect is doing outside your window? Oh, Yuck! has stories about these things and more! Learn about vile bodily functions, including gas eruptions, skin breakouts, and escaping fluids. Witness creepy crawly bugs from your backyard to the deepest darkest jungles doing the grossest things imaginable.

People often see foreign objects fly across the sky. Are those objects satellites? Are they meteorites? Or is there something else in outer space? Listen to find out more about UFO sightings.

What’s that strange object in the sky? Could it be an alien spaceship? Listeners will be riveted by curious tales of UFO sightings while also learning the facts about each claim. Which mysteries still baffle experts, and which ones have been solved?

Have you ever wondered what makes bugs so special? The latest addition to the How Do series dives into all of the unique things spiders, worms, ladybugs, and many other insects can do. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each presented in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind them.

Explore the lives and achievements of the Wright Brothers.

Who dives for food, and who traps food? Who hunts in packs, and who picks food using their tongue? Dig in to find out how animals eat.

They're flying saucers or glowing balls of light. Some people say they have seen UFOs in the sky. Are the legends true?

Find out how electricity and power work. Learn more about electric currents and circuits, and nature's role in generating power.

What can smell like bubblegum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by humans, and even help create rain? The answer is mushrooms! From their hidden networks underground to the fruiting body above, mushrooms can do incredible things. But don't call them plants - mushrooms are fungi. They're more closely related to animals like you!

Everything a young listener needs to know about obesity: what it is, how it happens, and how to help solve the problem. The audiobook also presents real-life stories of kids who struggle with obesity.

Everything a young listener needs to know about allergies: what they are, how they are caused, what the symptoms are, and how they are treated. The text also presents real-life stories of kids who experience allergies.

Travel to Egypt. Find out the facts about this country in Africa.

When gladiators fought in combat, there was usually only one winner. The victor may not have realized it, but he owed his success to science. Learn how science helped gladiators find victory in the arena.

Travel to Afghanistan. Find out the facts about this country in Asia.

One treat a day! A 23-volume series of 365 treats: stories, facts, questions and answers, and science experiments for young listeners.

Meet a man who was a medical doctor, a geologist, and a surveyor who also knew botany, zoology, and chemistry. Douglass Houghton was all of these, even though he stood barely five feet, four inches tall. Follow his trail as Michigan's first state geologist, as he explores the unknown wilderness of both peninsulas, in the 1830s and 1840s to discover the potential resources of a brand-new state.

The universe is rapidly expanding. Of that much scientists are certain. But how fast? And with what implications regarding the fate of the universe? Ellen Jackson and Nic Bishop follow Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team to Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, where they will study space phenomena and look for supernovae, dying stars that explode with the power of billions of hydrogen bombs. Dr. Fillippenko looks for black holes--areas in space with such a strong gravitational pull that no matter or energy can escape from them--with his robotic telescope.

Having a pet dragon is always fun! He can sit, roll over, and play.... He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other cool things.... But what if your dragon is addicted to his smart phone, tablet and computer? What if he is always looking at a screen? What if he always took his phone to bed with him, put in on the dinner table, took it on the bus, to the park, to the mall, and even right in the bathroom stall? What if he is always living in the virtual world, and is so disconnected in the real world?

Alien abductions? Mysterious lights in the sky? Could these events actually be the work of extra terrestrials? Get the facts about the top ten UFO and alien mysteries of all time.

Did you know that Albert Einstein was a high-school dropout and that he failed his physics class when he finally made it to college? Or that when he died, his brain and eyeballs were removed from his body? Have you ever wondered why his hair looked so wild? Siblings Paige and Turner have - and they’ve collected some of the kookiest and most unusual facts about him, from his childhood and school days through his time studying relativity and working on the atomic bomb.