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Hitting the redo button on evolution
Science News for Kids — Scientists are experimenting with bacteria to see if evolution plays out the same way every time People have always wondered why plants and animals are built the way they are. Charles Darwin, an Englishman who lived in the 1800s, was very curious ...More…
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Watching deep-space fireworks
Science News for Kids — An orbiting telescope records the universes most powerful explosions Space is full of fireworks: Galaxies smash into each other, dying stars explode and high-energy particles race toward us at the speed of light. The most powerful explosions in ...More…
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A grim future for some killer whales
Science News for Kids — An oil spill off the U.S. coast 20 years ago still threatens marine life Now, 20 years later, the area still has not fully recovered. At the time of the spill, two groups of orcas, or killer whales, were swimming in the area. One of these groups ...More…
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Supergoo to the rescue
Science News for Kids — The absorbent stuff in diapers may help clean up after a terrorist attack Inside a disposable diaper are tiny crystals of a material called sodium polyacrylate that can absorb hundreds of times their weight in water. Just a small amount of the ...More…
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Deep-space dancers
Science News for Kids — In a galaxy far, far away, black holes are spinning around each other If you gaze through a telescope at a distant galaxy, it may glow brightly with the light of hundreds of millions of stars. Despite all that light, most scientists think that at ...More…
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The most popular stars
Science News for Kids — Dwarf stars come in many colors, and arent so small after all Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Hawaiian Starlight, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope As long as people have been living on Earth, weve been looking up at bright stars in the night sky, trying ...More…
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The Earth-bound asteroid scientists saw coming
Science News for Kids — History-making asteroid tracked from space to its fiery demise in an African desert On October 7, 2008, an asteroid the size of a car blazed through the atmosphere and crashed into the Nubian Desert in the African nation of Sudan. Eyewitnesses ...More…
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Silks superpowers
Science News for Kids — Scientists are studying the strong and stretchy material in spiders, insects and even goats Spider-Man isnt the only person with an interest in spider silk. While Spidey uses the threads to zigzag from building to building, or to snare a bad ...More…
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New eyes to scan the skies
Science News for Kids — Four hundred years ago, an Italian scientist named Galileo Galilei became the first person to see the craters on the moon. Galileo, who also observed four of Jupiters moons and the rings of Saturn, was one of the first people to use a telescope ...More…
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Toy Challenge
Science News for Kids — A toy design contest encourages both girls and boys to take an interest in engineering. You probably have a favorite game that you just can't wait to play. Your friends might have their own ideas about what's fun and what's not. Have you ever ...More…
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Roll-Up Computer Monitors to Go
Science News for Kids — Future electronic displays may be paper-thin and as flexible as a stick of gum. Have you noticed how gadgets are getting smaller? Cell phones, laptops, MP3 playersthey're all getting slimmer and lighter. Now, researchers at the companies Philips ...More…
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Drawing Energy out of Wastewater
Science News for Kids — Microbes in a fuel cell can generate electricity from plant and animal waste in water. Flush. Every time you go to the toilet, your waste gets carried away by water. Before it can be released into the environment, the wastewater has to be treated ...More…