Pluto's Demotion a Gift for Teachers
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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When New Horizons, NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft, swings by Jupiter on Feb.
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An object smaller than Pluto has been discovered orbiting a dying star in what astronomers said Monday resembles a pint-sized version of our solar system.
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The PlayStation games console could be developed into a learning tool for children, says a Northumberland head teacher.
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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A fierce backlash has begun against the decision by astronomers to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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IIT professor Jeff Terry wanted to open up the universe to his students. So he created iCCD, a Mac-based custom application that allows them to capture celestial objects in all their glory.
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By CAROLYN CHURCHILL  ONE of the pioneers of space exploration touched down in Scotland yesterday as part of a project which promotes science to schoolchildren.
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Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik  kicked off the Space Age, an ultra-modern probe heading for Pluto is using retro Sputnik-like tones to communicate with Earth.
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Mike Baker examines the factors that combine to make a good teacher.
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The dwarf  planet that effectively forced astronomers to strip Pluto of its planethood is  not only bigger than the former ninth planet, but also much more massive, a new  study finds.
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M ath teacher Dara Zeehandelaar was working on her Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Maryland when she took a hiatus to teach. "Everybody has their thing," she says. "My thing is public education."
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More than a quarter of the school year has passed, and Romanian teacher Hermes Clipa is still enjoying his time teaching in the United States.
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Astronomers write a new definition that officially makes Pluto a planet. But that means 2003 UB313 is one too
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Some surprising perspectives on the substitute teacher's plight, plus how to help.