Children Get Immersed in Science
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By Ana Maria Trujillo, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Jun. 13--On Monday, a group of space travelers found themselves stranded on an unknown planet called Zak. Their spaceship crashed and its bits and pieces were scattered all over the planet's surface under its Christmaslight stars.
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Nearly two years after their experiments were destroyed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, high school students are getting a second chance to see how space affects everyday things such as hair, flowering seeds and plant food.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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Kids pitch in to improve school ICT A parliamentary group has launched a competition for primary school children to prove their grasp of technology.â¦
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Thousands of school children are logging on to the Internet to join scientists exploring a series of hydrothermal vents a mile under the sea to the west of Costa Rica.
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners and in vending machines.
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Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences in healthy people.
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An Ohio company has found a niche by converting yellow school buses into hands-on laboratories as a highly mobile way to try to get students excited about science.
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Children who start nursery school by the age of two are up to a year ahead in maths and English when they begin full-time schooling, a major research project, published yesterday, shows.
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The 2007 league tables are to include an indication of how many pupils got two good science GCSEs.
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Pupils could soon face tests of their creativity under plans to boost the kind of "soft skills".
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There are big variations in how many children from different neighbourhoods go to university.
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Science education in U.S. elementary   and middle schools is overly broad and superficial, according   to a government report issued on Thursday that also faults   science curricula for assuming children are simplistic   thinkers.
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Researchers coax cells in a petri dish into learning to guide a plane. The project should lead to a better understanding of how the brain works. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Children&#39;s brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That&#39;s the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of
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Steve Schmidt&#39;s social studies classroom No. 259 at Lowell High School has turned into a science lab of sorts. His science department colleagues have been measuring the carbon dioxide levels in his room and
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Beyond the tired cliches and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realised.