Print Almost Anything with a 3D Printer
For Valentine’s Day this year, a Japanese company used a 3-D printer to produce chocolate copies of people’s faces. Credit: FabCafe/Think 3D/K’s Design Lab Print Almost Anything Here’s a fairly long...
View ArticleScientists Briefly Revive Extinct Frog from Dead Cells
Photo Credit: D. Sarille Rheobatrachus silus frog brought back to life In an article dated March 18, 2013 Amanada Kooser of CNET posted a cool article about a frog extinct since 1983 that Australian...
View ArticleHow to Calm a Crying Baby
Carrying a Baby Calms it Down – in People and in Mice Most parents understand that picking up and cuddling a crying infant is the quickest way to calm the infant down. That’s not earth-shattering...
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The Science Vault Blog is dedicated to providing busy teachers access to “kid-friendly” current events in science with accompanying ideas for their use in the classroom. The aim of this blog is to save...
View ArticleAmerican Cannibals
American Cannibals – Skull fragment suggests starving colonists may have eaten one of their own A new article by Stephen Ornes on Science news for Kids tells a gruesome story of survival in Jamestown...
View ArticleHere Comes Swarmageddon!
This spring and summer, trillions of cicadas will emerge in the eastern US In this May 12th post on Science News for Kids, (linked above) author Sid Perkins discusses cicadas and the impending swarm...
View ArticleRecord High Readings Of Carbon Dioxide Raise Concern
http://www.dogonews.com/2013/5/18/record-high-readings-of-carbon-dioxide-raise-concern In an article by Meera Dolasia on dogonews.com (link above), rising carbon dioxide levels are discussed. We hit a...
View Article23 Science Books So Good They Read Like Genre Fiction
Literacy has become a huge topic in my district and the push is to get kids reading more non-fiction. Typically, students are reading fiction in their English classes, and the non-fiction reading is...
View ArticleDuring Cicada Boom, Birds Mysteriously Vanish
Discover Magazine posted an article about the mysterious population dip in birds in areas of cicada emergence on June 18, 2013. Written by Madeline Bodin, the article goes on the explain the scientific...
View ArticleHeaders and Memory Loss
In an article written by Stephen Ornes for Science News for Kids on June 20, 2013, possible memory loss from frequent “heading” of a soccer ball is discussed. From the article: In a recent study,...
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