by msander | May 24, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
From a tree to an orangutan to bacterium, the annual top 10 new species list has the newest stars of Earth’s biodiversity. Source: Top 10 new species of 2018 include volcanic bacterium and a hitchhiking beetle | CBC News
by msander | May 10, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr. 11-12 Biology
A parasitic wasp has injected her eggs into a caterpillar — and now they’re ready to hatch. In the Womb: Extreme Animals : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com… ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National...
by msander | Apr 30, 2018 | All Science Teachers
To make a crewed Mars mission possible, there are incredibly complex problems that need to be solved. Here are some of the things at the top of NASA’s to-do list, and how engineers and psychologists are figuring them out. Source: Engineering, psychology and...
by msander | Apr 30, 2018 | Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
Researchers have found that Indonesia’s Bajau people, who for generations have spent the majority of their days diving and hunting underwater, also have genetic adaptations for their unusual lifestyle. Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/0… Read the...
by msander | Apr 5, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
Each day, the animal kingdom produces roughly enough poop to match the volume of water pouring over Victoria Falls. So why isn’t the planet covered in the stuff? You can thank the humble dung beetle for eating up the excess. Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning explain how...
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