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Before Katie Mack became a scientist, she was the kid taking apart TV remotes and building solar-powered cars out of LEGOs. “I’d take things apart and put them back together to figure out how they work,” she says. This tinkering kick-started her love of science. But Mack wouldn’t come across her future career until she was about 10 years old. That was when she read A Bri...


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Step, shake, clap. A group of teens moves to the beat. In a video of their dance, colorful starbursts break out from their hands. These girls created their own moves. For the video, they also coded visual effects that respond to those motions.

Combining dance with coding opens up all sorts of creative possibilities.

“If you put your right fist in the air...


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Crying over chopped onions could be a thing of the past. Slicing with sharper blades and slower cuts can eliminate those painful tears, a new study finds.

A chemical formed from onion juice (propanethial S-oxide) triggers those tears. Slicing the onion ruptures its cells, triggering a chemical reaction that forms this compound. Chopping can fling tiny dropl...


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Plenty of species have gone to space. Monkeys and dogs were among the first astronauts and cosmonauts. Those animals were sent on missions to see how space travel might affect people. (Spoiler: They didn’t always survive.) Then humans took to space. And they hav...


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Antarctic fish build surprisingly organized neighborhoods of nests — and in some very odd shapes.

Scientists spotted this aquatic architecture in the Weddell Sea. Those waters, off the coast of Antarctica, are some of the coldest on Earth. The dis...


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