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Classroom Decorations Can Distract Young Students Jun 11, 2014

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Five-year-olds in highly decorated classrooms were less able to hold their focus, spent more time off-task and had smaller learning gains than kids in bare rooms. Erika Beras reports

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Kid Scientist Finds Sweet Pest Control Jun 10, 2014

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Eleven-year-old Simon Kaschock-Marenda's science fair project led to a publication about the insecticidal effects of the sweetener Truvia. Karen Hopkin reports

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Light Colors Become Fashion Rage for Northern Europe's Insects Jun 09, 2014

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As northern Europe warms, the light-colored butterflies and dragonflies typically found in the Mediterranean are moving north, and outcompeting their darker-colored rivals. Erika Beras reports

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London Fish Chip Away at Historical Unknowns Jun 06, 2014

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Isotope composition within fish tails found in London archaeological digs shows that the city began importing cod from northern Scandinavia some 800 years ago. Cynthia Graber reports

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Meteor Storm Went from Sizzle to Fizzle Jun 04, 2014

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The May Camelopardalids meteor outburst turned out to be a dud, because meteor storm prediction is not a sure thing, unlike, for example, calculating the next eclipse

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