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Picture five grocery bags of plastic trash, piled high along every foot of coastline on Earth. That’s about how much plastic waste ends up in the oceans each year. Some of the plastic is thrown off ships. But most makes…
Two flags fly on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. Once is the Australia flag. The other is the NSW flag. NSW stands for New South Wales, the state on the east coast of Australia. Sydney is the capital of…
Vroom vroom! You won’t hear that on a Formula E race track. That’s because all Formula E cars are electric-powered. It’s said the gearbox sounds like Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder. Except for that, the cars barely make a sound. They can…
NASA wants to build an internet in the solar system. The agency is working now on getting WiFi in space. It’s not easy. Connection links are fragile. Planets are very far apart. An instant message won’t be instant, even if…
Mount Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Its latest eruption started in 1983 and has been going on ever since. On May 3, 2018, the island was struck by a 5.0-magnitude earthquake. Hours…
The driver of a big truck ignored warning signs and drove across a large area of Peru’s ancient Nazca Lines. He left deep tire marks in the ground and damaged three of the geoglyphs. The site is on a large…
The border between the US and Mexico is 2,000 miles long. It passes through deserts, mountains, rivers, streams, forests, wetlands, marshes, and swamps. Many of these are biologically diverse. Some species live nowhere else on Earth. Fences harm wildlife, disrupt…
A recent study found that most scientists today are older than 55. That means they are close to retirement and will soon need to be replaced in the workforce. However, thanks to new policies and awards that help younger scientists…
Music piracy has decreased in recent years. With the introduction of free streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, fewer people are turning to illegal sources to obtain music they want to listen to. But that doesn't mean music piracy…
If you love math, you're in luck! A 2015 CareerCast report ranked the top-ten best jobs based on categories such as salary, hiring opportunities, and stress level. According to their report, most of the other jobs required a background in…