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- Life
Scientists Say: Zooxanthellae
Algae called zooxanthellae live in the tissue of coral and provide the coral with food and its color.
- Brain
Routine hits in a single football season may harm players’ brains
A group of college football players underwent brain scans after a season of play. The results suggest playing the sport could harm neural signaling.
- Tech
AI can learn real-world skills by playing video games
Video games are helping AI systems work together and adapt to real-world situations.
- Climate
Catch up with Climate Change Chronicles
Science News for Students spent a year documenting climate change around the globe. Here’s a roundup of the main stories from the series.
- Climate
Record heat is burning the Arctic and melting Greenland’s ice
High temperatures are melting Greenland’s ice. They’re also fueling Arctic wildfires that are pumping record amounts of carbon dioxide into the air.
- Health & Medicine
Outbreak of lung disease, including 5 deaths, tied to e-cigarettes
Some 450 e-cig users have been hospitalized for severe lung disease across 33 states and U.S. territories. Five of them have died.
- Chemistry
Chemists have created a ring-shaped form of carbon
A ring-shaped carbon molecule takes its place among buckyballs, carbon nanotubes and other odd forms of the element.
- Space
Scientists Say: Galaxy
A galaxy is a group of millions to billions of stars, plus a lot of dust and gas.
- Climate
Today’s global warming is unlike the last 2,000 years of climate shifts
Temperatures at the end of the 20th century were hotter almost everywhere on the planet than in the previous two millennia. And it’s only gotten hotter.
- Planets
Welcome to moon rock central
A Science News reporter’s visit to NASA’s moon-rock lab shows the hyper-pristine conditions in which these rocks are kept — and why that’s so important.
- Climate
Slow hurricanes, like Dorian, become dangerous and hard to predict
The warming seas associated with climate change may be fueling powerful but sluggish hurricanes, the type that 2019’s Dorian exemplifies. A climate scientist explains why.
- Science & Society
Eight stories you missed while on summer vacation
Catch up on the science you missed, from earthquakes in California to weather in space to ploonets.
