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Looking for an explainer? Start here
Science News Explores has explainers on topics ranging from anxiety to volcanoes.
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Check out the Let’s Learn About series
These mini lessons can introduce you and your students to a new topic — or just help you find stories you may not have read yet.
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Scientists Say: Latitude and Longitude
Latitude is a measure of how far a location is north or south of the equator. Longitude is a measure of how far east or west a location is from the Prime Meridian.
- Physics
Say hello to gravity waves
Einstein predicted these waves 100 years ago. Scientists have finally proven him right.
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Scientists Say: Your weekly word
This glossary provides definitions and audio clips to help you learn and pronounce even the toughest science terms.
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Bake your way to your next science project!
This step-by-step series from the Eureka! Lab blog explains how anyone can do a research project and do it right.
- Planets
Hello, Pluto!
Here's a collection of our stories about your favorite dwarf planet — including those on the New Horizons flyby.
- Science & Society
Most students wrong on risks of smoking occasionally
Teens know that heavy smoking can seriously harm health. But most, a new study finds, don’t realize that smoking only now and then also is harmful. Data from a survey highlight teens’ mistaken ideas about the risks of intermittent smoking.
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Nobel goes for creating the ‘nanoscope’
A regular microscope can’t bring into focus the nanoscale molecules from which cells are built. Using lasers and fluorescent molecules, three scientists found a way to view these tiny features. Their reward: the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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2014 Indicators highlight STEM learning and teaching
This year’s Science and Engineering Indicators give good news: most high school teachers in science and math have in-field related skill sets.
