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Here you'll find all the videos in the Science NetLinks collection aimed at high school students. Focused on topics as wide ranging as the mechanics of weightlifting and the art of the solar system, there is a video here for every student.
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K-12 | Video
A Biscayne National Park Ranger working at the 2010 BioBlitz takes us on a tour of mangrove trees.
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6-12 | Video
Yale scientist Ainissa Ramirez describes the physics behind the game and what gives a football its speed, drag and spin in this video.
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6-12 | Video
In this video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez demonstrates how the metal rivets that held the Titanic together became brittle in the frigid waters and broke apart on impact with the iceberg.
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6-12 | Video
Using an egg and bubble wrap, Ainissa Ramirez shows how football helmets are designed to reduce skull fractures, but are poor at preventing brain injuries (or concussions).
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6-12 | Video
Ainissa Ramirez demonstrates how to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen, describes why cold temperatures makes ice cream creamier, and shows how an understanding of ice cream helps us with avalanches.
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Ainissa Ramirez describes the science behind spiders making webs and walking on walls, which engineers hope will lead to materials that are bulletproof and robots that can climb the side of a building.
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Ainissa Ramirez shows how ferrofluids, which are iron particles floating in a liquid, make weird shapes and increase in viscosity when a magnet is nearby.
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6-12 | Video
An interview with Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, about the upcoming Pluto encounter and what is next for his NASA spacecraft.
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3-12 | Video
This NASA documentary celebrates 50 years of extravehicular activity (EVA) or spacewalks that began in 1965 and continue to this day.
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6-12 | Video
Each year, Science chooses a singular scientific development as Breakthrough of the Year. This year, the Rosetta mission took the crown! Meet this year’s Breakthrough and check out our nine amazing runners-up!
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6-12 | Video
Rebecca Lyland takes us on a GoPro adventure to study soil in the desert, grasslands, and pine forests of Arizona.
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3-12 | Video
Learn how to play Classify It!, the latest Android and iOS app from Science NetLinks.
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6-12 | Video
This episode of Speaking of Chemistry discusses the science behind astronomical aromas and celestial body odors.
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9-12 | Video
A video by Science Magazine on the relationship between social mobility and economic opportunity.
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K-12 | Video
In this final BobCast video, we hear from a group of college students who collect and identify marine algae, better known as seaweed.
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K-12 | Video
In the first of a series of live 2011 BioBlitz BobCasts, host Bob Hirshon explains what the BioBlitz is all about.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, AAAS's Bob Hirshon talks with a team from the University of Arizona who are hunting for fungi that spend their entire lives inside plants.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, middle-school students work with entomologists to find desert insects that are attracted to light.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, a student from Baker University discusses tardigrades (water bears) and their unique features.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, we see kids play "Literary Roulette."
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K-12 | Video
When invasive plants threaten to upset critical natural habitat, who can you call? Jamie Evans, National Park Service biologist at Rocky Mountain National Park.
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9-12 | Video
This video is produced by the Eyes on the Sky. It explores how to understand the magnitude scale, starting with visible stars in the naked eye range, going up in brightness to understand the relative brightness of bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter and then the full Moon and Sun, and then heading back down the magnitude scale (but UP in numbers - all explained!) to dimmer objects.
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6-12 | Video
This American Chemical Society video explains the science of movie explosions.
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9-12 | Video
In this video, researchers describe how they investigate the evolutionary processes at work in the amply-horned Japanese rhinoceros beetle.
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6-12 | Video
This video from CBS Morning Show examines some recent shark attacks and what's happening with Mary Lee the shark.
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9-12 | Video
Fusion has the potential to be the perfect energy source—safe, clean, and limitless—but scientists are struggling to make it work. Now a change of shape may turn the mainstream reactor design, known as a tokamak, into something simpler, faster, and cheaper.
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K-12 | Video
Learn about NASA's 60-year history.
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3-12 | Video
The video highlights the work of icons like astronaut and chemical engineer Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to go into space, as well as Percy Julian, a pioneer in synthesizing materials from plants, including a glaucoma drug from beans, a firefighting foam from soy protein, and an arthritis treatment still used to treat millions of patients today.
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3-12 | Video
Learn how to turn your ideas into inventions through inspiration, education, and iteration.
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6-12 | Video
Find out what inventing green means in this video from Science NetLinks. Hear from current inventors and learn about other green products, technology, and techniques.
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K-12 | Video
In this short video from AAAS & Science NetLinks, you'll see the many ways science has impacted your life.
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6-12 | Video
Immunizations are a positive tool for public and personal health. Two of every three alleged injuries related to them, including every single autism claim, have been dismissed over the past 30 years by the United States' vaccine court.
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6-12 | Video
Childlike affinity toward humans may have been a first step in domestication.
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6-12 | Video
New elastomer construction techniques could make use of soft robots more widespread.
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6-12 | Video
Follow world-renowned scientist Cary Fowler into the the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which holds the key to human survival: more than 880,000 seed samples.
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6-12 | Video
Saudi find may reveal how humans harnessed early dogs to survive.
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6-12 | Video
Learn about the James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest, most complex, and most expensive science mission that NASA has ever attempted.
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3-12 | Video
Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific waters. The secret to their survival? A fur coat like no other.
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6-12 | Video
How a parasitic wasp larva turns an orb weaver spider into a slave that builds a web to host the larva’s cocoon.
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K-12 | Video
This video takes a brief look three unsung women scientists, like the one who saved the U.S. space race.
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9-12 | Video
Gravitational waves, Einstein’s ripples in spacetime, have been spotted for first time.
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6-12 | Video
This video from Science discusses on new research that suggests that ancient Babylonian astronomers employed sophisticated geometric methods that foreshadowed the development of calculus.
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3-12 | Video
Scientists may have discovered a Neptune-sized ninth planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun every 15,000 years.
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6-12 | Video
Researchers working on everything from theoretical chemistry, to geology, to psychology, discuss what it means to be a scientist in the 21st century, and what it takes to survive the emotional roller coaster that sees them tackle frustration and failure before critical acclaim.
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9-12 | Video
This video explains the Fermi Paradox -- the concept that even with billions of potentially habitable planets in the universe we haven't detected any intelligent alien life.
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9-12 | Video
This follow-up video to The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens? explains some possible solutions to the paradox.
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6-12 | Video
Neil deGrasse Tyson shares his speech, “The Seedbed,” inspired by the Gettysburg Address and reflecting on America's science legacy.
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6-12 | Video
In this video, Chris Packham puts a northern goshawk through its paces in the lab.
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3-12 | Video
This video looks at whether or not you can get sick from being cold.
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6-12 | Video
A new adhesive fuses hard-to-bond materials like elastics and hydrogels, offering new options for fields from medicine to robotics.
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K-12 | Video
This time-lapse video takes a look at the 17-year life cycle of the magicicada.
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6-12 | Video
This video from The Connecticut Forum features Temple Grandin sharing a funny story about her cowboy shirts.
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9-12 | Video
Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science at Yale, talks about shape memory alloys. These "metals with a memory" are used in space, in robots, and even in your mouth!
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9-12 | Video
In this short video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, a Yale engineer, shows how sandwiches of silicon (in solar cells) can create energy from sunlight and help curb our dependence on oil.
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9-12 | Video
Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science at Yale, demonstrates the heat absorption properties of the space shuttle's ceramic tiles.
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7-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. A robotics engineer who has designed a robotic arm analyzes weightlifting technique to teach the robotic arm how to do the same motion.
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3-12 | Video
Michael Benson discusses the Planetfall art exhibition.
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6-12 | Video
In this video, your students will gain an understanding of the processes of plant identification and why the discipline is important in scientific research.
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8-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin masters the basic principles of fluid dynamics in order to be the fastest swimmer in the pool.
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5-12 | Video
High school senior Kevin Temmer created this animated short on how to take part in a science fair as part of the International Baccalaureate program at Land O'Lakes High School.
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9-12 | Video
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to quasicrystals. But what are they? Dr. Ainissa Ramirez guides us into this strange world where atoms arrange themselves in forbidden ways and create materials with weird properties.
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6-12 | Video
Clips from the documentary The Last Speakers share snippets of interviews with speakers of endangered languages.
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6-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. U.S. runner Jenny Simpson relied on new treadmill technology to help rehabilitate from a stress fracture as she trained for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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6-12 | Video
Deployment of a Web cam at North Pole in 2002 provided the very first summer-long view of conditions at the North Pole. Includes narration with background information about the North Pole and the Web cams.
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K-12 | Video
This video from the National Wildlife Federation follows naturalist David Mizejewski as he discusses why it's important to plan gardens with wildlife in mind.
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3-12 | Video
This video provides a brief explanation of a watershed.
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6-12 | Video
A tour of a beef plant guided by Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.
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3-12 | Video
This is a video of Vicki Cobb's acceptance speech of the 2012 SB&F Lifetime Achievement Award.
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3-12 | Video
In this segment of Science XPlained, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez discusses how the strings in a tennis racket--often made of synthetic or natural materials--make the important topspin shot possible.
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9-12 | Video
In this segment of Material Marvels, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez describes how simple devices like cell phones can be powered by heat using thermoelectric materials, which convert heat to electricity.
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3-12 | Video
What is a watershed? Learn about watersheds with this clip from Surfrider Foundation's educational video "From Sea to Summit: A Journey through the Watershed."
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9-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. It examines how Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's stride, strength, and muscle coordination have helped him record the fastest time in the world in the 100 meter sprint.
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6-12 | Video
John P. Holdren at the May 13, 2010 AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy discusses why scientists can't determine more precisely how much oil is gushing from the Deepwater Horizon rig.
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6-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. An electrical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology explains why Olympic timekeeping technology must be able to measure an athlete's performance with both accuracy and precision.
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9-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. In order to maximize his performance, 2008 Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay teamed up with engineers from BMW to improve measurement of the horizontal and vertical velocities of his long jumps.
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6-12 | Video
Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the night of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT).
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6-12 | Video
Learn about sand prairies, which are a type of grassland ecosystem. The video specifically focuses on those in and around La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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K-12 | Video
AAAS' Bob Hirshon talks with John Francis of National Geographic about the 2010 BioBlitz and what participants experience there.
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3-12 | Video
John Dabiri, a biophysicist at the California Institute of Technology, discusses jellyfish, submarines, blood flow, and wind farms.
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3-12 | Video
Astronomer Michael Brown discusses the solar system's bodies and his role in the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.
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6-12 | Video
This video was made by Danielle Balistrieri, a college student who participated in grasslands research in California.
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6-12 | Video
This video was made by Danielle Balistrieri, a college student who participated in grasslands research in California, and discusses the results of their research.
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6-12 | Video
This video, from Science in Seconds, looks at what it means to be a citizen scientist.
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6-12 | Video
A panel discussion for middle schoolers about careers in space science.
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K-12 | Video
In the first of a series of live 2010 BioBlitz BobCasts, host Bob Hirshon arrives at the BioBlitz staging area and provides a short video tour of the people gathering there.
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K-12 | Video
AAAS's Bob Hirshon and a small team of volunteer “fish counters” head out on a boat trip to a turtlegrass bed and coral reef.
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6-12 | Video
Artist Michael Benson and planetary scientist Dr. Nancy Chabot discuss the intersection of art and science at the opening of the Planetfall art exhibition.
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3-12 | Video
This video features Loree Griffin Burns reading a chapter from her book, Citizen Scientists.
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9-12 | Video
In this pilot segment, host Bob Hirshon speaks with microbiologist Betsey Dexter Dyer about some of the microscopic life in Bob's backyard—tiny organisms that make life possible for the big creatures like us.
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8-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. A biomechanical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh demonstrates how engineering can help wheelchair athletes of all sports maximize their performance at the Paralympic Games.
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7-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. A mechanical engineer at New York University's Polytechnic Institute explains how the safety helmets that Olympians wear are designed, constructed, and tested.
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6-12 | Video
Studying the science of tsunamis will hopefully provide better understanding and a better warning system
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8-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. Through advances in pool design, engineers are helping swimmers reach their maximum speed with technology designed to minimize waves.
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9-12 | Video
In this segment of Material Marvels, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez demonstrates how materials behave strangely when they are nanosize—about 1/100,000 the thickness of your hair.
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6-12 | Video
This video provides a short chronological history of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space flights.
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6-12 | Video
Photojournalist Adam Nadel offers insights into his exhibition, "Malaria: blood, sweat, and tears," which was featured in the AAAS Gallery in 2012.
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3-12 | Video
This video features an interview with author Loree Griffin Burns at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
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K-12 | Video
Bob Hirshon interviews Dr. Michael Raupp, an entomologist, about the 2013 emergence of the Brood ii 17-year periodical cicadas.
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6-12 | Video
This video from Science Magazine takes a brief look at scientists studying how a parrot flies.
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9-12 | Video
Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science at Yale, discusses how a layer of carbon that is one atom thick, called graphene, will revolutionize our lives in this episode of Material Marvels.
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6-12 | Video
The ability to recognize strings of letters as words, also known as orthographic processing, is a key component of reading.
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6-12 | Video
Experiments show these clever birds can also delay gratification for better future rewards.
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6-12 | Video
How can you see the atmosphere? By tracking what is carried on the wind. Tiny aerosol particles such as smoke, dust, and sea salt are transported across the globe, making visible weather patterns and other normally invisible physical processes.
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