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The Phoenix Mars Lander mission has uncovered the first direct evidence of water ice on the Red Planet.Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids
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Scientists find evidence that Mars was full of water early in the solar system's history.Published: Thursday, July 31st, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids
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A study shows that kids in a happy mood paid less attention to details.Published: Monday, July 28th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids
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The tortures of Antarctica include not only cold, but also heat. I discovered it nearly every morning. As I woke in my tiny tent, in the middle of a million square miles of ice, I struggled to get my clothes off quickly enough. The thermometer hanging in my tent often read over 30ºC. One time it even said 37ºC! It shows that part of what keeps Antarctica cold and frozen is its color. Because it is white, it reflects most of its sunlight, and heat, back into space. But our tents were bright red, and in the 24-hour summer sunlight they absorbed plenty of heat (and my ow...Published: Friday, July 25th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids
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Three scientists travel to Antarctica to explore a secret world hidden beneath the ice.Published: Friday, July 25th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids -
Francis Halzen has an unusual job. This scientist studies itsy bitsy, teeny tiny objects zipping through the universe. They’re called neutrinos. His job should be easy because neutrinos are all around us, all the time. They pass from the depths of outer space to the depths of your sock drawer — and then just keep going. And don’t even think about trying to count these super-tiny particles. The neutrinos flying around our universe outnumber all of the people, animals, plants, satellites, planets, stars, galaxies, black holes and asteroids combined. They’re also fast, traveling at al...Published: Friday, June 27th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids -
Particles are the building blocks of matter, and matter makes up everything you can see. The Earth and moon are matter. So is your body, your computer’s screen, even the air you breathe. Which means they’re all made of particles. Lots and lots of particles, of all different kinds, stuck together.Atoms, which used to be considered the smallest unit of matter, are made from particles too. Just how small is an atom? That’s a tricky question, since different atoms have different sizes and atoms are mostly empty space. But here’s one way to think about it: Let’s say you wanted to f...Published: Friday, June 27th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids
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Astronomers have defined "plutoids" as a new category of Pluto-like objects in the outer solar system.Published: Friday, June 20th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids -
Travel can put the body’s rhythms slightly out of whack. For professional baseball players, that may mean more lost games.Published: Friday, June 20th, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids -
Science News for Kids reports on a close-up examination of the crystal skulls that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull suggests the artifacts, once thought to be some 500 years old, were made in the 19th or 20th century.Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2008Found in: Archaeology, Molecules and Science News For Kids -
Scientists have identified 23 new compounds that could make better bug sprays than those used today.Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Molecules and Science News For Kids -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Teacher Certification Increases, But . . .Rigorous standards exist for what teachers should know and be able to do. The rub: only about three U.S. teachers out of every five schools have demonstrated they meet those standards.Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Found in: Science & Society and Science News For Kids
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Spin around quickly for a long period of time, and you’re likely to lose your balance and fall. Strangely, a similar thing can occur with orbiting bodies such as a planet. Spinning on its axis for millions of years, a planet’s surface features can shift position over time, upsetting its balance. If a major shift occurs, the planet might even tilt over. Now, scientists say such a shift actually happened on Jupiter’s large icy moon Europa. Recent images taken from three different spacecraft — Voyager, Galileo and New Horizons — provide the clues. The images show th...Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Science News For Kids -
Chimpanzees not only share our ability to use tools. They also share our ability to create tools for a specific purpose. A group of Japanese scientists recently witnessed this inventiveness in action. The researchers watched a 5-year-old chimp named JJ use a long twig to capture ants in a new way. At first meeting with only limited success, the innovative chimp then refashioned his tool for better results. Tool use among chimpanzees is well documented. Chimps in some communities, for example, plunge long sticks into anthills and then eat the clumps of ants that cling to th...Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2008Found in: Science News For Kids
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Science News for Kids explores the sensory explosion that defines the experience of people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Found in: Body & Brain and Science News For Kids
