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Students can search the Science News archive for the earliest stories on climate change and for techniques to combat it.

These questions focus on observations about Earth's surface temperature over time and reasons behind the changing climate.

Students will test the effect of different conditions on lactase, an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of milk sugar to simple sugar.

Students will test different types of catalysts and conditions for the light-producing luminol reaction.

These discussion prompts cover the basics of chemical catalysts, enzymes as biological catalysts, the energies and physical properties of catalysts, plus related applications.

Students will search the Science News archive to explore the history of catalytic material technology.

These questions focus on the use of catalysts in common industrial reactions and new research on alternatives to the precious metals currently used as catalysts.

This guide introduces students to the wide world of bacteria, bacterial infections, antibiotics and antibiotic resistance.

After reading about the results of a ban on trans fats, students can explore the nature of lipids in greater detail, including analyzing foods for the presence of fats.

This guide explores a wide variety of catalysts and their roles in chemical reactions, and covers recent research seeking alternative catalysts.

This research-focused guide is inspired by the International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF, the world's largest international pre-college science competition.

Students will calculate the angular momentum and density of the moon and consider the implications of the results for various theories of the moon's origin.