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A REAL WARRIOR PRINCESS?
The article reports on the actions being taken by archaeologists to identify the mummy of a Moche woman they discovered who died some 1,500 years ago.
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ASK JIMMY &THE BUG.
The article provides information about the blinking of an eye.
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ASK JIMMY + THE BUG.
The article answers a question on what causes seasickness.
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ASK JIMMY + THE BUG.
The article discusses the causes of brain freeze when eating frozen foods. About one in three people gets this type of pain, known as an ice cream headache or brain freeze, because nerves in the back and roof of your mouth detect the difference between the temperature of your mouth and the temperature of the frozen treat. This extreme, rapid drop in temperature causes the blood vessels in your head to swell up quickly with blood, which causes a headache.
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Ask Reveals All!
The article presents a detailed instruction on how to do the Disappearing Coin magic trick.
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Be the Whole Band.
The article offers information on a drawing contest for a one-person band.
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Bioblitz Buddies.
A game about the scientific terms of animals is presented.
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BIOBLITZ.
The article offers step-by-step instructions on how to conduct a bioblitz for animal species.
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Bright Idea.
The article reports that the residents of Rattenberg, a tiny town in Austria, have a particularly bad case of mood because the town sits in the shadow of Stadtberg Mountain, which blocks all sunlight from the village from November to February. But town officials are installing 15 six-foot-wide rotating mirrors called heliostats which will reflect the sunlight to a tall, mirror-covered tower just outside Rattenberg. The tower will redirect the light to smaller mirrors on buildings in the village then bounce light onto the streets.
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Come In and Practice!
A World of Music
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Contest Streetwise Species.
The article presents the rules for a contest identifying animals hiding out along a picture.
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Digging for Dodos.
The article reports on the discovery of a dodo graveyard by scientists digging in a swamp on the African island of Mauritius, where the dodo used to live, that may provide some answers on why the dodos became extinct.
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DO ANIMALS LIE?
The article provides information on how insects, birds and mammals cheat and trick each other to avoid predation.
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Do You Have a Musical Brain?
How Old Is Music?
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Don't Be Fooled.
The article reveals the illusion behind the magic trick of levitating a woman.
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Famous Fakes.
The article provides information on several hoaxes including a tree which produces spaghetti.
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Furry Fossil Find.
The article provides information on the fossil of a 20-inch-long mammal cousin that looked like a cross between a beaver, a river otter and a platypus.
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Gone Forever.
The article provides information on the mass extinction of passenger pigeons.
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HIDE &SEEK.
The article focuses on the clever coloration developed by animals that makes them difficult to see in their natural habitat.
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Jimmy The Bug.
The article provides information on how to avoid a muscle cramp when exercising, playing, sitting or just lying in bed.
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Letters.
The article presents several letters to the editor on various science issues of interest to children.
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
The article focuses on the limitations of a polygraph in telling whether a person is lying through physical movements, body temperature and brain activity.
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Life on…Enceladus?
The article provides information on the photographs taken by the spacecraft Cassini on its third trip around Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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MARVIN and friends.
The article presents a conversation between friends wishing that they could swim like fish.
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Marvin and Friends.
The comic strip "Marvin and Friends" is presented.
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MARVIN and friends.
The article presents the comic strip Marvin and Friends about a magic trick of pulling out a rat from a hat.
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MARVIN and friends.
The comic strip "Marvin and Friends" is presented.
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Mind Reader.
The article provides information on the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface.
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Move Like a Fish.
The article presents information on design your own watery vessel inspired by a sea creature contest.
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Name That Dolphin.
The article focuses on the findings of study which found out that dolphins give themselves names through whistles.
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Nestor's Dock.
The comic strip "Stuck on You" is presented.
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Nestor's Dock.
The article presents a comic strip involving a chameleon.
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NESTOR'S DOCK.
The article presents the short story "Nestor's Dock," by Tom G. Baff.
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Nestor's Dock.
The comic strip "Nestor's Dock" is presented.
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Ocean Locomotion.
The article offers step-by-step instructions for observing the way an octopus and a sea turtle move through the water by just using a cardboard.
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Ocean PATHFINDERS.
The Ocean Conveyor Belt
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Open Wide.
The article reports on the discovery of an ancient teeth with tiny holes drilled into them. The teeth, which are between 7,500 and 9,000 years old, belonged to nine adults who once lived in a village in Pakistan. The holes were all in hard-to-see molars, so they would not have been made for decoration.
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Plant Protection.
The article presents the pictures drawn by children readers of Ask magazine concerning the design of plants that could protect itself from insects.
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Ready…Set…BIOBLITZ!
The article provides information on bioblitz, a method used by scientists to count as many animal species as possible in a particular area in 24 hours.
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Return of the Cranes.
The article provides information on whooping cranes.
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Rubber Sidewalks.
The article reports on new high-technology rubber sidewalks made of old car tires, which are not only easy on the feet, but they are also helping save some of the big old trees in Washington, D.C.
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Save the Frogs.
The article focuses on the efforts of two U.S. scientists to rescue hundreds of rare frogs threatened by a deadly Fungus in Panama.
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Searching for New Species.
The article provides information on a team of scientists who trekked through a tropical forest atop the mist covered Foja Mountains on the island of New Guinea.
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Surf's Up!
The article presents information on surfing in Hawaii, including the best waves to surf, the process by which the waves form, and some tips on surfing.
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Surfer Slang.
The article presents information on surfer slang including eat it, barney, and Brah.
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SWIM SCHOOL.
The article presents information on the different ways various sea creatures move through the water including the sailfishes, flying fishes, dolphins, whales, sharks, squids, etc.
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The Long Swim.
The article presents information on the habitat, mating and reproductive behavior of a humpback whale off the coast of Alaska.
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Tracking Trash.
A Real Dump
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Welcome Back, Dodo.
The article provides information on the life-size models of dodos created by artist Harri Kallio.
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When Marian Sang.
The article presents the short story "When Marian Sang," by Pam Muñoz.
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Who Has the Most Feet?
The article reports on the discovery of the little millipede Illacme plenipes, which has more legs than any other animal in the world, by scientist Paul Marek in the California forests in 2005.
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Why Do Birds Sing?
The article states that the world's first music was that of bird songs. Birds have influenced some very famous composers like Mozart, who was thought to have been inspired by the song of a pet starling, and Beethoven's sixth symphony imitates the sound of the nightingale. Many birds make short, simple sounds known as calls. But only the birds known as passerines, or songbirds, actually sing. Now scientists can record songs in the wild and listen to them later, slow the songs down, or even play them back to other birds and see how they react.
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Winging It.
The article describes the first flight of swifts. The author explains that swift nestlings are chubby, like most animals, and that their extra weight stores extra energy in case food becomes scarce. In a study, researchers attached tiny weights to some of the birds and trimmed a few wing feathers from others. They continued to test their weight with push-ups until they achieved their target flight weight.
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