Recently added articles from Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication:
Here come the suns: what life would be like on a planet with two suns?(EARTH)(Cover story)
Jan 23, 2009; ... In the movie Star Wars, Luke Skywalker ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his aunt and uncle on the planet Tatooine. It's a desert planet, swept by ferocious sandstorms, where really weird life-forms-Jawas, bantha, and womp rats-battle to survive. In 1977, when Star Wars ...
Pullman, W.Va.--when Jason Harschbarger answered a distress call from a nearby farm in October, he found that it was coming from a horse with its head stuck in a tree.(ANIMAL SPOTS)(Brief article)
Jan 23, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PULLMAN, W.Va. -- When Jason Harschbarger answered a distress call from a nearby farm in October, he found that it was coming from a horse with its head stuck in a tree. Harschbarger couldn't pull out the ...
Nantou, Taiwan--a death match between a poisonous snake and a mouse stunned local firefighters here.(ANIMAL SPOTS)(Brief article)
Jan 23, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NANTOU, Taiwan -- A death match between a poisonous snake and a mouse stunned local firefighters here. The firefighters had rescued the 35-centimeter (14-inch) snake, a viper, from a local home and were keeping it in a cage as a pet They put the mouse into ...
For the record: vinyl records are groovy again.(PHYSICAL)
Jan 23, 2009; ... James Acklin plays guitar and works as the music director at WPPJ, the Point Park University campus radio station in Pittsburgh. It's no surprise, then, that the 21-year-old broadcasting student is into Godspeed You! Black Emperor and other avant-garde bands. But when Acklin wants to rock ...
Sci-triv game: have fun learning about science!
Jan 23, 2009 ... Want to play a game of science trivia? See how many points you can win by correctly answering the questions below. To find your score, give yourself 10 points each time you get a first-row question right, 20 points for each second-row question, and so on. The red bonus square is ...