A new study suggests that getting kids computers and internet access at home can hurt school performance. Advocates for media literacy education say computers are a powerful tool, but have to be accompanied by instructions on how to use them for learning. David Cooper Moore of the Media Education Lab's Powerful Voices for Kids program advises parents to take an interest in what kids are watching and reading. He says students should learn media literacy skills starting at the age of five.

Using high-speed video, a Temple researcher has revealed the biomechanical tweaks that allow a little-known fish called the leaping blenny to thrive on land. Propelled by a twisting motion that turns their tails into springboards, leaping blennies have colonized rocky intertidal areas across the South Pacific. Biologist S. Tonia Hsieh is one of a handful of researchers to study leaping blennies, formally known as Alticus arnoldorum. "People say that a fish out of water is a dead fish, and that's not necessarily true."