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This downloadable e-book serves as the ideal teacher’s guide to Joy Hakim’s Einstein Adds a New Dimension, the third title in her Story of Science series. The Classroom Companion, which includes a student edition, follows Hakim’s text chapter by chapter and provides teaching tips, vocabulary lists, activities, writing prompts, additional online and print resources, and more. Middle and high school teachers will love how it integrates science, math, geography, history, and literature. Members: download your free copy today!

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  • Most Planets May Be Seeded with Life
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    Astronomers have detected a building block of RNA floating within the hot, compact core of a massive star-forming region in the Milky Way. The molecule appears to have formed with all of the other stuff that makes up planets, suggesting that many other...  [view full summary]
    Astronomers have detected a building block of RNA floating within the hot, compact core of a massive star-forming region in the Milky Way. The molecule appears to have formed with all of the other stuff that makes up planets, suggesting that many other worlds are seeded with some of life's ingredients right from birth.
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    Fossils of the oldest-known turtles, unearthed in southwestern China, may help answer an evolutionary enigma—how did the turtle get its shell?
    Fossils of the oldest-known turtles, unearthed in southwestern China, may help answer an evolutionary enigma—how did the turtle get its shell?
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    Reuters
    Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a Swedish researcher.
    Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a Swedish researcher.
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  • First Inventory of Life at Poles
    BBC News
    The first comprehensive inventory of the sea and land animals living in a polar region has been carried out by British and German scientists. More than 1,200 species were counted, including five new to science.
    The first comprehensive inventory of the sea and land animals living in a polar region has been carried out by British and German scientists. More than 1,200 species were counted, including five new to science.
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On December 2 in 1942, a nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated, conducted, and produced by scientists for the first time, at 3:45 P.M. in a squash court at the University of Chicago, under the direction of Enrico Fermi. Although the reaction is the same as that used in the impending Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs, in today's experiment only enough power to light a small flashlight is produced. [ from The Illustrated Almanac of Science, Technology, and Invention ]


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