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Carbon dioxide’s ecological footprint

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Rising CO2 threatens lake food webs" and an accompanying graph tracking pH.

The spy in your pocket

Students will answer questions about how smartphone apps could be used to spy on people and how such spying might be prevented.

Testing the equivalence principle

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Galileo experiment re-created in space."

Analyzing a top article

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

Replacing a boy’s skin

Students will report on the who, what, why and how of a treatment for a rare skin disease.

Mosses exposed and analyzed

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

Spotting a neutron star collision

Students will answer questions related to the Science News article "Neutron star crash seen for the first time."

That’s a wrap

Students will answer questions about how a cubic metallic robot wraps itself in different exoskeletons to perform different functions.

The molecular lives of plants

These questions focus on articles about two of the 2017 SN 10: Scientists to Watch. The scientists are studying how plant roots seek water and developing artificial photosynthesis.

Flu shot response foretold

Students will answer questions about new research showing that the activity of a small number of genes can predict a young person's immune response to the flu vaccine.

Probing the brain’s connections

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Flex time," which explores how flexible brains might make for better learning.

Short but sound science

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