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A moon rock's biography
A study of a new meteorite from the moon has revealed that the rock endured four impact events and that the last one actually ejected the rock from the ground and launched it into space.
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Science for Kids exclusive: 'Worm wizard,' Dr. Shana Goffredi
Deep beneath Monterey Bay, California, weird worms topped with bright red, feathery "hats" gorge themselves at a whalebone buffet.
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The science of nosy neighbors
Where should a bird search for food? Would a bright-colored fish or dull-colored fish make the best father?
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How does carbon dioxide affect ocean life?
As human activities like driving have pumped carbon dioxide into the air, the oceans have absorbed a large portion of this gas.
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What happens when snails get sick?
Scientists used to think that the two major groups of animals, vertebrates and invertebrates, protected themselves from getting sick in very different ways.
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An early human skull from Africa
The early humans that lived around 2 million to 500,000 years ago may have come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
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Honeybee air conditioning
Anyone whose air conditioner has broken down on a sweltering summer day should find it easy to appreciate the honeybee's do-it-yourself approach to temperature control.
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How close can you get to a comet?
In January 2004, the Stardust spacecraft came breathlessly close to a comet named Wild 2.
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A dog's 'vocabulary'
Rico, a German family's Border collie, can learn the names of toys the first time he encounters them.
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Making sense of scents
New research is helping scientists understand how our brains are able to tell the difference between the scent of a rose and the stink of a sweat sock.
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Scientists' moon bounce
The moon bounce is always popular at carnivals. In a new study, scientists report that a different kind of moon bounce -- one involving bouncing light, not bouncing feet -- may be important for scientists who study how Earth's climate works.
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Purebred pooch genetics
Which dog do you think is more genetically similar to a wolf: a tough German Shepherd or a wrinkly-faced Shar-Pei?
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Paved paradise
Unlike the few dandelions that manage to pop through asphalt sidewalks, some ocean creatures seem to actually like asphalt.
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World's oldest hummingbirds
Hummingbirds in Europe? While the only hummingbirds you'll see flying around Europe these days have probably escaped from captivity, hummingbirds lived wild and free in present-day Germany and in other parts of Europe, Asia and Africa more than 30 million years ago.
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The oldest known campfires?
While scientists don't have lyrics to any campfire songs, the burned seeds, wood, and flint they discovered in Israel could be the world's oldest known remains from fires controlled by humans.
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A medicine in mustard?
Turmeric is a bright yellow spice that colors curry powder and the mustard we squirt on hotdogs.
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Sunsets keep songbirds from getting lost
Night-migrating songbirds use sunsets to help them fly back and forth between winter feeding grounds in Central and South America to summer breeding grounds in North America.
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Sea shells and blood cells
While stepping on a sharp shell may draw blood, new research links sea shells and blood cells in a totally different way.
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Prehistoric push-ups
Scientists reporting the discovery of the world's oldest known arm bone say that the first arms and legs developed for use in the water.
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Can bacteria be real estate agents?
Scientists found a strain of bacteria that live inside the bodies of tiny sap-sucking insects and act, in a way, like real estate agents.
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What caused the 1930s dust bowl?
A severe drought parched the Great Plains during the 1930s, driving farmers off their land in search of work.
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Bacteria and ocean celebrities
If you were a marine biologist and hoped to learn how to protect coral reefs, whales and other "ocean celebrities," you'd need to study bacteria.
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What languages will the world speak in 50 years?
In fifty years, you might be searching for the coolest new fonts for Mandarin, Hindi and Arabic so you can communicate stylishly with people speaking the world's most common native languages.
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Empathy and pain
When your parents punish you and say, "this hurts me as much as it hurts you," they might not be making it up. Feeling empathy activates some, but not all, of the pain-processing regions of the human brain, according to a new brain-scan study in the 20 February 2004 issue of the journal Science.
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The geometry of M&M's
If you had two containers, one filled with M&M's and the other filled with M&M-sized gumballs, which container would hold more objects?
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