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Science for Kids
Check here every Thursday afternoon for a new Science for Kids story!

This week's Science for Kids Story:

Invisibility 'cloak' Hides Objects From Microwaves
[PHOTOGRAPH] Cloak lying over a bump on a flat surface. Both the bump and surface are covered in a reflective coating. The cloak makes it appear that microwaves hitting the bump are actually reflecting off a flat surface [Image courtesy of David Smith] Researchers have created an invisibility cloak of sorts, though it looks more like a yellow bathmat than Harry Potter's famous cloth.

Find out more in this week's Science for Kids.

Kinetic City

Kinetic
    CityKids, check out the Mission to Vearth – a new web-based interactive science game from AAAS. Find out how to join a club to earn points, or play just for fun. Go now.

I'm a Genius, Baby
You can upload your own picture and be a genius, too.
A baby with Einstein's grey hair and moustache
 
 
AAAS for Parents

Parents,
AAAS works hard to encourage children from all types of backgrounds to take and interest in science. You can get involved with your child to encourage the love of learning. AAAS has several programs to engage kids in science:

Science News for Kids on EurekAlert!:
science news for kids from the AAAS journal, Science. For current and past stories, click here.

Science Update/Why Is It?: AAAS radio program answers listeners' science questions about everyday curiosities.

Science and Everyday Experiences (SEE) radio program: features African Americans in science, engineering and mathematics.

Science. It's Everywhere: grassroots awareness-building effort that strives to empower families to enhance their children's science learning.

Kinetic City: Mission to Vearth is an interactive, web-based science story game that has been developed for 8- to 12-year-olds and for individual use or team play in after-school clubs.

I'm a Genius, Baby: You Can't Start Young Enough from EurekAlert! for kids lets you be a genius, too, by uploading one of your photos.

Be on the Cover of Science: upload your photo to be on the cover of the world's most widely read science magazine.


 

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