Bringing Up Baby Foxes
  • By L.E. Carmichael, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:05:33
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

A scientists helps arctic-fox researchers discover that some foxes share dens and some mother foxes mate with more than one male fox to give their offspring the highest chance of...

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Building a Better Shortcut
  • By Elizabeth Thwing
  • Duration: 0:05:12
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Ben learns how a cruise ship passes through the Panama Canal using a water elevator called a lock.

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Champions of Hibernation
  • By Alison Pearce Stevens, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:03:51
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

This article is about fat dormice or "seven sleepers" animals related to squirrels. They hibernate for seven or eight months of the year slowing their breathing and heart rates to...

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Changing-Up Your Pitching
  • By C.G. Morelli
  • Duration: 0:04:15
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Find out how to throw a circle change-up.

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Map for Columbus, the Traveling Bear
  • By Sharlene P. Nelson
  • Duration: 0:05:43
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Article about a black bear named Columbus who traveled more than 10 miles amongst people in Washington state before being captured and moved to the wild.

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Creating a Symphony of Steel
  • By Cheryl M. Reifsnyder
  • Duration: 0:03:47
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

How a poor kid from Trinidad developed what became the only new instrument of the century: the steel pan drum. A bio of musician/drum maker Ellie Mannette.

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Dueling Dinosaurs
  • By Sharon Pochron
  • Duration: 0:03:20
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Article about Triceratops' horns and their purpose. Triceratops had a sharp horn growing above each eye and a smaller horn growing in the center of its nose. Scientists wonder...

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Every Carving Tells a Story
  • By Marty Kaminsky
  • Duration: 0:05:00
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Read how one artist's memories are carved into stories.

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Exploding Stars Turn Red
  • By Ken Croswell, Ph.D
  • Duration: 0:05:41
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Astronomers observe the formation of a red nova which occurs when two stars merge and explode.

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Flying Galaxies
  • By Ken Croswell
  • Duration: 0:05:00
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

New evidence that two of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are new arrivals.

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