Science News for Kids articles from June 2008

Science News for Kids archives from June 2008

Bug, bug, go away.
June 11, 2008... Every summer, people all across the country take part in a nightly ritual: covering themselves with insect repellents to ward off bloodthirsty mosquitoes and other pests. It's a good idea. Mosquitoes don't just leave you with itchy red bumps...

Fakes in the museum.
June 11, 2008... Indiana Jones might have saved himself a whole lot of trouble in his new movie if only he had known the crystal skulls he traveled so far to find were probably fakes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Crystal skulls, carved from a see-through...

Hey batter, wake up!
June 18, 2008... Next time your favorite baseball team loses a game on the road, you might be able to blame it on the time zone. Just as travelers often experience jet lag when they fly long distances, a new study shows professional baseball players don't...

Pluto, plutoid: what's in a name?
June 18, 2008... A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare in the play Romeo and Juliet. But what would astronomers say about a planet by any other name? It's a question astronomers have been talking about since 2006, when an...

IceCube science.
June 25, 2008... Francis Halzen has an unusual job. This scientist studies itsy bitsy, teeny tiny objects zipping through the universe. They're called neutrinos. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] His job should be easy because neutrinos are all around us, all the...

The particle zoo.
June 25, 2008... Particles are the building blocks of matter, and matter makes up everything you can see. The Earth and moon are matter. So is your body, your computer's screen, even the air you breathe. Which means they're all made of particles. Lots and lots...