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  1. Health & Medicine

    Yummy bugs

    Eating insects is a common practice in most places, at least outside of the United States and Europe.

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  2. Animals

    The tiniest serpent

    The smallest species of snake ever discovered lives on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

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  3. Planets

    Icy red planet

    Mission to Mars finds water ice.

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  4. Planets

    Pluto, plutoid: What’s in a name?

    In 2006, an international organization changed the classification of Pluto from planet to "dwarf planet."

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Hey batter, wake up!

    Baseball teams that travel across the country may be at a disadvantage when they play.

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  6. Chemistry

    Bug, bug, go away

    News snapshot from Science News for Kids.

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  7. Humans

    Fakes in the museum

    A close-up examination of crystal skulls reveals the true, recent origins of these "relics"

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  8. Space

    Slip-sliding away

    The surface of one of Jupiter’s moons shifts position.

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  9. Animals

    From dipping to fishing

    Scientists retool thinking about chimp innovation.

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  10. Earth

    A feverish world

    The second of a two-part series on climate change.

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  11. Environment

    Polar ice feels the heat

    This is the first of a two-part series on global climate change.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Gut microbes and weight

    A new report links a baby's gut microbes with the chance that the baby will become an overweight child.

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