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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS TOP stories

LET’S TALK SCIENCE

LEANA WEN

Density Liquids

GETTING CLEAN ENERGY from Small Nuclear Power Plants • CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES LIKE WIND AND SOLAR NEED TO GET BIGGER TO BE ABLE TO POWER THE WORLD. BUT ANOTHER TYPE OF CLEAN ENERGY IS TRYING TO GET SMALLER: NUCLEAR POWER. IN A GREEN FUTURE, THE ELECTRICAL GRID COULD BE POWERED BY SMALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS RUNNING NEXT TO WIND TURBINES AND SOLAR PANELS.

Laugh Out Loud

KAMALA SOHONIE Opening Doors in India • When Kamala Sohonie was born around 1912, only about 1 in 100 women in India could read. As a child, Kamala saw that women were “expected to look after the house, do all the household chores, and raise a family.”

DID YOU KNOW

MIND MUDDLERS

WAITOMO • THE WAITOMO GLOWWORM CAVES IN WAITOMO ON THE NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR POPULATION OF GLOWWORM SPECIES.

Getting Sick in Space • HAVING A COLD IS NO FUN. YOUR THROAT FEELS SCRATCHY, YOUR NOSE GETS RUNNY, AND YOU SEEM TO BE SNEEZING EVERY FEW MINUTES.

Extreme birds • BIRDS OF PREY ARE FOUND ACROSS THE GLOBE, FROM THE TINY PYGMY FALCON THAT LIVES IN THE AFRICAN BUSH TO THE HUGE ANDEAN CONDOR THAT SOARS OVER SOME OF THE WORLD’S HIGHEST MOUNTAINS.

CHELSEA ANDREWS METEOROLOGIST

WORDSEARCH

3 hacks to Ripen Fruits Faster

SCIENCE Behind This Hack

SUPERCOOLED WATER

7 Awesome Gift Ideas FOR YOUR HOLIDAY WISHLIST THIS YEAR

Let the Music Play • If there is one thing that’s universal among tweens and teens, it just might be a love of music. Whether your preferred genre is pop, country, rock, rap, or something in between, it’s almost a given that music is somehow part of your day.

Let the Music Play • To help you create your mood-boosting playlist, try to think of a song for each of the categories below.

Guess What Animals

Winter Nature Walk Observations

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