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Science News for Students: Scientists Say: Insulin
Insulin. This chemical is a lifesaver. It helps our bodies use the sugars from our food, and without it, people develop diabetes.
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Science News for Students: Antarctica Warms, Which Threatens Penguins
Describes the threat of climate change in the Antarctica to emperor penguins by affecting the ice sheets where penguin breeding grounds are located.
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Science News for Students: Dinosaurs and Fossils
This section of Science News for Kids features articles on dinosaurs and fossils that are tailored for children. Many of these relate to recent discoveries or topics of debate.
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Science News for Students: Wet Dog Physics
Describes the physics behind animals' ability to dry themselves by shaking to remove water.
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Science News for Students: Sea Changes
Discusses the serious impact greenhouse gases are having on the pH balance of the oceans. It looks at the sea butterfly, which has more difficulty forming a shell as ocean acidification increases, as well as the damage acidification does...
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Science News for Students: Watering the Air
Discusses research done in the American Midwest showing that farming practices that increase humidity levels possibly could have an impact on the weather, causing a reduction in the average temperature and an increase in the amount of...
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Science News for Students: Better Chow Yields More Milk
This article reports on a recent project from a teen that found that feeding a higher quality corn to dairy cows resulted in increased milk production. Includes a list of vocabulary words.
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Science News for Students: New Gene Fights Potato Blight
Potato farmers spend billions of dollars every year to fight blight - a disease that can wipe out potato crops. Now scientists have discovered a wild variety of potato that is immune to blight. See the advantages and possible...
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Science News for Students: Science Loses Out When Ice Caps Melt
Discusses the melting of mountain ice caps from climate change, and how this represents the loss of valuable historical data that disappears as the ice layers melt away. [February 2, 2009]
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Science News for Students: Shoulder Bones Fuel Debate
A shoulder blade was recently discovered that belonged to a 3-year-old humanlike female who lived more than 3 million years ago. Scientists are studying the fossil to learn whether the creature climbed trees.
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Science News for Students: Concerns About Earth's Fever
Burning fossil fuels is causing the planet to heat up, causing weather patterns to change, sea levels to rise and diseases to spread. Scientists are concerned with the rising temps of Earth.
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Science News for Students: Curiosity's Watery Find
Read about Curiosity rover's watery find on Mars. This article describes the formation of water that once flowed across Mars billions of years ago.
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Science News for Students: Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect
Discusses greenhouse gases and how they affect climate change. [May 7, 2010]
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Science News for Students: Understanding Electromagnetic Radiation
Briefly explains the different types of radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Science News for Students: Four Winged Dinosaur
Researchers have known about four-winged dinosaurs for some time, but have recently determined how these extra wings were used. The dynamics of these extra appendages are outlined in this article.
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Science News for Students: Hold on to Your Stars, Ladies and Gentlemen
Describes scientific research that has revealed new information about the size and shape of the Milky Way.
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Science News for Students: Riding to Earth's Core
Ever thought about riding to the core of the earth? Well geophysists David Stevenson has. He has even come up with a way to make a hole, but he has run into some other complications. Maybe you can be the one to solve those problems.
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Science News for Students: Scientists Explain Mystery of Triangular Snowflakes
Describes research that discovered how three-sided snowflakes form.
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Science News for Students: Twinkle, Twinkle Oldest Stars
Astronomers have determined how super-bright galaxies can be used to detect the faint glow of "cosmic fog." Cosmic light is light that has left every star and now lingers in the universe, including light from stars that have burned out.
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Science News for Students: Building Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a circular monument of stones in Great Britain that researchers and scientists have studied for many years. A recent study has suggested that it was built by livestock herders, not farmers as previously believed. Highlights...