Science News for Kids articles from April 2009

Science News for Kids archives from April 2009

Meet the new dinos.
April 1, 2009... The last dinosaurs died about 65 million years ago, long before humans started walking around. Scientists can still learn new things about these ancient animals though, thanks to the fossils they left behind. Paleontologists are scientists who...

The most popular stars.
April 1, 2009... As long as people have been living on Earth, we've been looking up at bright stars in the night sky, trying to understand the universe and our place in it. Astronomers have long known that not all stars are alike. Some are almost as old as the...

Treating peanut allergy bit by bit.
April 1, 2009... Peanut allergies are among the most common and most dangerous food allergies. A tiny exposure to peanuts can mean big trouble for a person with a peanut allergy, with symptoms ranging from sneezing or coughing to the constriction, or narrowing,...

A grim future for some killer whales.
April 15, 2009... In 1989, an oil tanker called the Exxon Valdez struck an underwater reef in Prince William Sound, a large body of water in southern Alaska. The ship dumped about 11 million gallons of crude oil into the freezing water, creating the largest...

Springing forward.(climate change and natural cycles)
April 15, 2009... It's not just Daylight Savings Time that came early this year. All around the world, spring seems to be coming sooner than it used to. It hasn't moved up on the calendar--but many cycles in nature are telling us that spring just can't wait to...

The Earth-bound asteroid scientists saw coming.
April 15, 2009... On October 7, 2008, an asteroid the size of a car blazed through the atmosphere and crashed into the Nubian Desert in the African nation of Sudan. Eyewitnesses who were looking up at the sky at the time reported seeing a fireball over the...