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"An award winning photograph by Nicholas Roemmelt of the northern lights phenomenon over Kirkjufell Mountain, Iceland is presented, with a description of a March 2014 effort by the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) to study the formations." High lexile, but really short article

"The article presents an interview with Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, author and physics professor at West Virginia University, who discusses her preference in using NASCAR in teaching science, her experience in driving a stock car and the importance of using safety equipment in automobile racing."

"The article offers science activities which help one to learn the principles of aerodynamices in automobile racecars, as well as about air pressure, horsepower, and atmospheric pressure."

"The article focuses on the initiative of the automobile industry to ensure the safety standards of racecar drivers such as the effort of chemist Stephanie Kwolek to experiment with polymers which has been helpful to protect drivers from burns."

"The article discusses pinball machines and their scientific aspects involving physics."

"The article offers information on an educational activity in which children can discover how tall trees get the water they require."

"The article discusses how plants learn about their world through their senses. It offers information on an experiment conducted by Charles Darwin, a 19th century English naturalist and geologist, to prove his hypothesis that plants bend toward light. It also informs that plants can feel, as they can feel the wind, the rain and human touch, as well as explains the sense of smell among plants."

"The article features penguins, flightless birds of the southern hemisphere between Antarctica and South America, with black upper parts and white underpants, and wings that developed into flippers for swimming under water. It informs that the way penguins look and act are adaptations to help them survive in extreme environments. It also describes the penguins' feathers and odd-shaped bodies, as well as narrates how the penguins keep warm and how their eggs survive the coldness of the ice."

"The article provides basic information about the sun. A description of what happens during a total solar eclipse is given. Information about the composition of the sun, the nature of sun spots and solar cycles are also included. Inquiry on why the corona of the sun is hotter that it's surface is also offered."

"The article offers information about Iceland. Aside from Iceland, the country has smoking volcanoes and steaming hot springs. Heimaey, an island off Iceland's southern coast, experienced eruption of red-hot lava from a crack in the ground in 1973 but people were able to prevent it. Blue Lagoon features milky blue waters and beneath it is a bed of hot rock. It is noted that one-tenth of Iceland is covered with glaciers."

"How Netflix engineers use math and computer science to find movies you'll love" Hint: Click on PDF version to get the pictures

"The article discusses the importance of rare earth metals including neodymium and lanthanum in operating gadgets including smartphones, digital cameras and computers, and presents the views of Alex King, materials scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy, on the utility of rare earth metals."

"The article discusses the study done by sleep researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder Kenneth P. Wright Jr. in which he states that the blue light produced by the electronic devices stimulates the brain and shift sleep patterns and advices to turn off the electronics before going to bed."

"The article focuses on the uses of whiskers by various animals."

"The article presents results of a study of scientists of the flying feats of hummingbirds in the U.S."

"The article presents information on the history of the term bug as used in computer science and programming based on the experience of computer scientist Grace Hopper working with the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947."

"The article reports on the incidence of algae blooms in beaches around the world. It explains the reason for the growth of algae as well as the damage it causes to marine animals. It also mentions the increase in the number of dead zones worldwide due to the absence of oxygen in the water. A quiz about dead zones is also presented."

"The article mentions several creative architectures that have been develop to solve the problems regarding climate change which include development of wind turbine blades in New York States, creation of tree houses in Milan, Italy and the high-tech park Gardens by the Bay in Singapore."

"The article offers information on electrons, including how it travels."

Basic structure of atoms