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Tween Tribune: What's Up With Saturn's Rings?

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about the rings of Saturn.
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Tween Tribune: What Happens When You Get a Concussion?

For Students 5th - 8th
Article explains the science of concussions.
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Tween Tribune: Whales Reappear in Long Island Sound

For Students 5th - 8th
Article reports on the return of whales of varies species to the waters off of Long Island.
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Tween Tribune: If We Don't Need an Appendix, Why Is It There?

For Students 5th - 8th
Article presents a theory regarding the role of the appendix in the human body.
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Tween Tribune: Fish in Northwest Have New Hopes for Home

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about efforts by scientists to develop new habitats for salmon and steelhead species of fish in the Pacific Northwest.
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Tween Tribune: Week of 4 4 16: Why Do We Sneeze?

For Students 3rd - 6th
Article answers the question, why do we sneeze?
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Tween Tribune: Giraffes Now Rarer Than Elephants

For Students Pre-K - 1st
There are many animals at risk around the world. Scientists have determined that the giraffe population is shrinking.
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Tween Tribune: Does a Spider Need a Web to Catch Its Prey?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
People are often fascinated by spiders creating their webs if they can catch a glimpse with the right lighting. Then there are the times people might get tangled in a web unintentionally. What do spiders do with those webs? Are they...
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Tween Tribune: Smog Delays Flights in China

For Students 3rd - 8th
Air pollution in China is no laughing matter. This is a problem that has plagued the nation's big cities for years. Instead of the smog getting any better, students have recently had days off because of it.
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Smithsonian Tween Tribune: How to Make a Tastier Tomato

For Students 5th - 6th
How do you make tomatoes taste even better? Read about a scientist whose goal is to make tomatoes taste as sweet as candy by using natural breeding techniques.
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Smithsonian Tween Tribune: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fluff

For Students 5th - 6th
Marshmallow Fluff. Yummmm! This yummy, gooey concoction turned 100 in 2017. Follow the history of Fluff in this article.
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Tween Tribune: Week of 6 13 16: Yellowstone, Then and Now

For Students 6th - 8th
Boulders shift. Canyons erode. Old trees fall. New ones grow. And tourists crowd Yellowstone National Park. The length of their vacations is barely any time at all in the stream of history.
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Tween Tribune: Week of 8 8 16: New, Rarely Seen Whale Spotted in Pacific

For Students 6th - 8th
Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean. This is according to newly published research.
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Tween Tribune: Week of 8 8 16: How Photography Shaped America's National Parks

For Students 6th - 8th
Have you ever gotten a postcard from a national park? Chances are the picture that comes to mind is the powerful eruption of Old Faithful spouting up in Yellowstone or the rocky depths of the Grand Canyon.