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This guide reviews the Top 10 scientific discoveries from 2017, as reported by Science News, with a focus on key concepts covered across scientific disciplines.

These discussion prompts help students gain a better understanding of key vocabulary and concepts covered in the Top 10 articles of 2017.

Students will compare and contrast one of the Top 10 stories of 2017 with an earlier related article from the Science News archive.

Students will read and summarize one of the Top 10 stories of 2017, as reported by Science News.

This guide connects the radioactive carbon-14 dating of newly exposed mosses in the Arctic to the bigger story of climate change.

These discussion prompts cover the basics of radioactive decay and carbon-14 dating, as well as concepts related to climate change.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to frozen mosses, radioactive carbon-14 dating and global warming.

Students will answer questions about how scientists measure the age of newly thawed mosses in the Arctic, and the implications of those scientists' findings.

This guide explores the recent discovery of a neutron star collision and encourages students to make connections to stellar evolution, gravitational waves and fusion reactions.

Students will use Science News as a resource for discovering a research question that interests them and developing a testable hypothesis.

Students will discuss the scientific details that are left out of short news reports and explore how these brief reports can lead to ideas for original research.

Students will answer questions based on a series of brief news items, including describing how each demonstrates sound scientific inquiry.