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Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
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Life from Space
Growing evidence suggests that life on earth may have been seeded from outer space.

SIDS & Serotonin
Animal experiments point to a possible cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

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MESSENGER Set for Mercury Flyby Oct. 6

On October 6, MESSENGER, NASA's spacecraft to Mercury, will perform its second flyby of the solar system's smallest planet. Passing only 124 miles over the planet's surface, the craft will use onboard equipment to observe 30% of Mercury's surface never before seen up close as well as to take magnetic field measurements from Mercury's western hemisphere.

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