Science News Explores

Science News Explores is for readers of any age, from middle school on up. Publisher: @Society4Science. See also @ScienceNews. Tweets by @LillianHwang

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🎉 Science News for Students is now Science News Explores! 🎉

AND our brand new print magazine, for curious kids 9+, launched in May. Each issue has stories from our site, plus activities & other bonus features only in print. https://t.co/J2arj94UOd

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This teen’s underwater footage could help pin down why some California kelp forests are thriving as others decline. https://t.co/cjxK7TygPL

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Can gaming be healthy? Yep — if you play the right kind of game! That’s the conclusion of a new study. https://t.co/52KSCY1Op4

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A T. rex took a New Yorker–paced walk 66 million years ago. https://t.co/o3YVSH85gl

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Occultation: This witchy-sounding word of the week describes an astronomical blocking event. https://t.co/yObhAbXsJy

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Spongy tissue that fills with blood helps some marine mammals hear well both above the water’s surface — and below. https://t.co/lMFFvcS6zZ

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An ant colony doesn’t need a leader to set it in motion. Any ant can set the rest of its nest into action. Coordinated action. https://t.co/IT8Nji8quD

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Static can ignite industrial fires, gum up pharmaceutical manufacturing, fry delicate electronic circuitry and hamper scientific experiments and space exploration. https://t.co/MsQazFpKM0

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Microbes are “cool and versatile.” And we’re going to need them as our allies in dealing with climate change. https://t.co/z6YFbY9UYq

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Surprise! The Grinch may have more in common with pythons than people, at least when it comes to his heart. https://t.co/P9p0IcpwcN

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It’s a particle, it’s a wave, it’s — both? https://t.co/a61a0ubuNE

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Again and again, the same elegant pattern appears in nature. The Fibonacci sequence is this week’s word. https://t.co/4cllLHcCxc

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What happens when you mix a Transformer toy and moon rover? SORA-Q, the little robot who took pictures on the moon. https://t.co/e86VzGXwd0

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Creepy giant sea spiders glow in the dark within the Australian Abyss. https://t.co/qCzZP5KRMB

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Our annual Halloween story homepage takeover is now in effect! Come on over for some spooky science 🎃🧟🐺💀🦇🧛 https://t.co/Y4cw4lHTfr Here's a teaser:

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One AI model learned to predict planets’ paths but learned nothing of gravity. Another answered nonsense questions. Five weird bot mistakes reveal how their “thinking” differs from ours. https://t.co/nyBsePybBv

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It's almost Halloween! Halloween is a holiday about monsters, myths and make-believe. But not every Halloween creature is make-believe. Some are real. https://t.co/UYfeWGcMUx

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A close call with an avalanche inspired this forecaster to help others. https://t.co/nuBUdBfJZb

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This teen is worried about the overuse of current antibiotics. To help fix that, she tested plants on her own farm to see how well they take down bacteria. https://t.co/lP66y1hh44

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It’s not easy being a teenage girl — especially when your 17th century Polish village is really determined to prevent you rising from the dead. https://t.co/5Tj3yu03Uf

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Blood, blood everywhere, but why do so few drink it? Despite blood’s prevalence, very few predators rely on it for food. This week’s word is sanguivore. https://t.co/uw5NaE3EVn