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Mind over body
These discussion prompts focus on some of Stephen Hawking's most notable discoveries and ideas, as well as the disease that destroyed his nerve cells.
A life revisited
Students will explore and compare articles about Stephen Hawking and black holes from the Science News archive.
Remembering Stephen Hawking
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Stephen Hawking's legacy will live on."
Small Intestine is First Stop for Fructose
This guide explores a variety of sugars and how they are modified in the body -- as well as how scientists follow those modifications.
Track those sugars
These discussion prompts ask students about how isotopes can be used to label and track chemical molecules, and about sugars and the enzymes they interact with.
Smartphones Overshare
This guide explores an increasingly ubiquitous technology: the smartphone. How do its sensors work, what data do they collect and how can we keep ourselves safe from its spying eyes?
Smartphone technologies
In this two-part activity, students will complete a few simple light polarization exercises to model LCD technology and then demonstrate how a smartphone app analyzes and utilizes data to perform a specific function.
A look inside the smartphone
These discussion prompts ask students to describe how various smartphone sensors work, and analyze three graphs related to data gathered by such sensors.
Galileo Experiment Re-created in Space
This guide explores the equivalence prinicple, a foundation of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the effects of low-gravity space environments on materials and the human body.
Free-fallin’
Students will determine if an object's composition and the height at which can object is dropped affects its gravitational acceleration.
When science and gravity meet
These discussion prompts encourage students to explore concepts related to gravity and how scientists measure it.
The equivalence principle in the archive
Use this short section to explore and compare other articles about measurements of the equivalence principle as reported by Science News since 1924.