Science News For Kids

In the December 5 Issue:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Climate might be right for a deal: Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward a climate-stabilizing treaty
Botanical Whales: Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too
Breaking the Speed Limit: Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance

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Top Stories | November 22

FOR KIDS: New twists for phantom limbs
An experiment explores the connections between brain and body.
FOR KIDS: The paleontologist and the three dinosaurs
Skulls thought to be from three different dinosaurs may actually be from the same type of dino at three different ages.
FOR KIDS: Giving sharks safe homes
Scientists help to understand and protect sharks and coral reefs
FOR KIDS: The bug that may have killed a dinosaur
The holes in the jaw bone of a world-famous T. rex suggest the dino died from a parasite infection.
FOR KIDS: One ring around them all
Introducing the solar system's largest known ring around a planet.

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FOR KIDS: One ring around them all

Introducing the solar system's largest known ring around a planet.

Science & the Public: Buried-lakes story wins top award

Some readers may be unaware of our sister publication, Science News for Kids, a weekly online magazine for middle-school readers. This morning, we learned that one of the site’s feature stories — Where Rivers Run Uphill — won this year’s top science journalism award for reporting news for children.

FOR KIDS: Batteries built by viruses

Scientists are engineering microscopic viruses to help in the building of smaller, lighter power supplies for a variety of devices.

FOR KIDS: The secret life of fruit flies

Scientists find that the most attractive scent for a fruit fly is no scent at all

FOR KIDS: The taste of bubbles

Taste cell for sourness senses fizz, too

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Blogs:

Science & the Public Case of the toxic gingerbread man
By Janet Raloff Nov 21st 2009

On the Scene Changing the paradigm around Alzheimer's disease
By Science News Staff Nov 16th 2009

Columns:

Comment From fringe to electromicrobiological mainstream
By Ken Nealson Nov 20th 2009

Math Trek The four color problem gets a sharp new hue
By Julie Rehmeyer Mar 6th 2009

Not to Miss:

SN Special: The Science of Slumber

Interview: Murray Gell-Mann

SN Special: Darwin Turns 200

2008: Science News of the Year

SN Bookshelf:

Quantum Leaps by Jeremy Bernstein
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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention by Stanislas Dehaene
A cognitive neuroscientist describes how the brain has adapted to reading and what can cause reading...
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