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Plants Take Two Aspirin
Feb 01, 2009; ... When you have a fever, maybe Mom gives you a little medicine to bring your temperature down. Well, it turns out that plants rely on medicine when they are sick too. Researchers testing the air over a walnut grove in California discovered that it contains a form of salicylic acid, the ...
Ancient Ant
Feb 01, 2009; ... A strange, prehistoric beast lurks in the Amazon rainforest. Eyeless and completely white, it stalks its predators with a long, razor- sharp jaw. Discoverers of the creature named it Partialis heureka, which means, roughly, "From Mars! Yikes!" because it is so strange looking. You probably won't ...
Plucky Ducks
Feb 01, 2009; ... A flock of 90 rubber duckies has volunteered for hazardous duty in the Arctic. The mission? To discover where melting water from glaciers ends up. Last August, scientists launched the 90 little ducks into holes, called moulins, in a glacier in Greenland. Each duck is labeled with the ...
Making MOONS
Feb 01, 2009; ... When you think of moons, you probably picture the familiar silver-gray moon we see in our own night sky. But our solar system contains more than 165 moons, and they come in all sorts of sizes and types. Some are round, and others are irregular, oblong rocks. Thousands of craters pockmark some ...
Life Without Gravity
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Home Sweet MOON
Feb 01, 2009; ... Would you like to fly to the moon and walk on its surface, leaving behind your footprints in moon dust? Well, maybe you can. By the time you're a grownup, people might be landing on the moon for the first time since before your mother and father were even younger than you are ...
Loony Moons
Feb 01, 2009; ... Before people landed on the moon in 1969, writers had a lot of fun imagining what it might be like. Lucian the Liar, 150 A.D. For I now make the only true statement you are to expect-that I am a Liar. On a voyage into the Atlantic, a great waterspout erupted and carried my ship ...
Build a Fizzy Rocket!
Feb 01, 2009; ... This experiment should be done outside. Find a friendly grown-up to help you and tell them it's time to go to the moon! Stuff You'll Need * A plastic film canister, with a lid that snaps on. Best are the kind with lids that fit inside the rim (Fuji film uses this kind), but other ...
CONTEST aNd LETTERS
Feb 01, 2009; ... In our September issue we asked you to draw a food chain. We don't have room to print all the entries, so we ve put more on our Web site at www.askmagkids.com/ contest. The sun shines on the vegetables. The vegetables Grow. The Vegetables are made into soup, And you eat ...
The Moon Looks Back
Feb 01, 2009; ... February Contest People everywhere see different images on the full moon's surface. Many see a man in the moon. In Japan, people see a rabbit in the moon. Pacific Islanders see a crab, and some African tribes see a frog. If it's a clear night on February 9, go out and look at the full ...
ASK JiMMY + ThE BuG?
Feb 01, 2009; ... When You're exposed to cold or danger, little pimple~l Ike mounds called goose bumps appear on your skin. If You look closely, you'll see one hair sticking straight out of each bump. It's attached to a tiny hair~aising muscle just under the outer layer of skin. When you feel cold or frightened ...
GOOD FOR THE GORILLAS!
Jan 01, 2009; ... Here's an endangered species story with a happy ending. Africa's western lowland gorillas wound up on the critically endangered list because their numbers have been rapidly sinking below 50,000 due to hunting and disease. So a recent count of the gorillas around the Republic of Congo had ...
Oldest American Yet
Jan 01, 2009; ... Experts disagree about when humans first came to the Americas and where they came from. Until recently, most scientists believed that people first entered northernmost North America from Siberia about 13,000 years ago, and that over the generations they made their way to the tip of South ...
DO THE DAWN DANCE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Have you ever woken up in the morning to birds singing, chirping, and tweeting noisily? That's called the dawn chorus, and many kinds of animals make a similar racket at dawn and dusk. Scientists think it may be a way to mark territory or let others know that they survived the night. Now, in a ...
The Skin You're In
Jan 01, 2009; ... Most of the time you probably don't think much about your skin. But skin is much more than just the stuff that covers us. Like your heart, lungs, and brain, your skin is an organ. In fact, it's the largest organ in your body. The average adult's skin weighs 9 to 15 pounds - the same as a ...
HAND GOGH
Jan 01, 2009; ... When you think of an artist, you probably think of someone painting on canvas. But Guido Daniele creates fantastic paintings of birds, elephants, tigers, and giraffes by painting on skin. Born in Soverato, Italy, puido Daniele has been called "Hand Gogh" (after artist Vincent van Gogh) ...
ONLY SKIN DEEP: THE STORY OF SKIN COLOR
Jan 01, 2009; ... For hundreds of years, people have described their skin colors as black, white, yellow, or red. But no one's skin is really any of these colors. You might be dark brown like coffee, pinkish yellow like a peach, golden tan like caramel, or one of many shades in between. Why do we come in so many ...
Louis Braille: Opening the Doors of Knowledge
Jan 01, 2009; ... Your skin does a lot of things. Did you know it can read too? Two hundred years ago, if you were blind, you became a beggar. Or maybe, if you were lucky, a circus musician or a fortuneteller. Most seeing people pitied you because they thought you had only half their wits. Few understood ...
The Clock Inside You
Jan 01, 2009; ... You probably wear a wristwatch to tell the time of day, but did you know that you have a built-in clock too? In fact, the bodies of all living things have ways of keeping track of time. These inner, or biological, clocks control how long to sleep and be awake, when to grow into an adult, ...
CONTEST aND LETTERS
Jan 01, 2009; ... In our July/August issue we asked you to perform a nature makeover. We don't have room to print all the entries, so we've put more on our Web site at www.ashnagkids.com/ contest. I found the shells and starfish on the beach in Florida. Allie H., Arizona The ...