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A Teenager Just Built The World’s Lightest Satellite—and NASA’s Launching It

SCIENCE An Indian teenager has not only produced A 64-gram (0.14-pound) satellite, NASA has agreed to launch it next month. (Science Alert) So, you want to build a satellite? Watch our video to see what’s involved. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Discussion Ideas Rifath Shaarook, an 18-year-old Indian teenager, just designed Kalam Sat, the world’s lightest … Continue reading A Teenager Just Built The World’s Lightest Satellite—and NASA’s Launching It

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Landslides Help Explain How Life Reaches Remote Islands

ENVIRONMENT Landslides are terrifying and dangerous for anyone caught up in them, but they may also have helped life spread around the world. (BBC Earth) What is a landslide? Use our reference resource to learn more. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Discussion Ideas New research links mega-landslides to the way plants and other living things colonize … Continue reading Landslides Help Explain How Life Reaches Remote Islands

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Dinosaur Asteroid Hit the ‘Worst Possible Place’

GEOGRAPHY Had the asteroid struck a different location, the outcome might have been very different. (BBC) Zoom in on the Chicxulub impact crater, ground zero for the demise of the dinosaurs. Discussion Ideas How did an asteroid, comet, or other space rock lead to the demise of the dinosaurs? The impactor didn’t directly cause any extinctions. Instead, it induced a “global winter” (sometimes called an … Continue reading Dinosaur Asteroid Hit the ‘Worst Possible Place’

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Dinosaur Mummy!

SCIENCE Known as a nodosaur, this 110 million-year-old, armored plant-eater is the best-preserved fossil of its kind ever found. (Nat Geo Magazine) Zoom in on dinosaurs and the early Cretaceous in North America. Discussion Ideas The nodosaur was not unearthed at a paleontological dig. How was this fossil discovered? Excavations at Suncor’s Millennium Mine, an oil mining operation in northern Alberta, Canada, unearthed the fossil. … Continue reading Dinosaur Mummy!

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11 Things We Learned This Week

This week, we learned … … Homo naledi looks great for her age … not a day over 350,000 years. Who is Homo naledi?   … Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could spell disaster for a warming planet. What’s going on in Antarctica?   … in space, no one can hear you snore. Because you’ll have a hard time sleeping in the first place. How else does … Continue reading 11 Things We Learned This Week

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