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Lying won’t stretch your nose, but it will steal some brainpower: The science of lying shows that most people don’t lie often. But when they do, it takes a surprising toll on their brains. Readability: 6.5 Resources: classroom questions, power words, word find puzzle

Mercury’s surface may be studded with diamonds: Billions of years of meteorite impacts may have transformed much of Mercury's graphite crust into precious gemstones. Readability: 7.9 Resources: power words, alternate version at Science News

Infected caterpillars become zombies that climb to their deaths: By tampering with genes involved in vision, a virus can send caterpillars on a doomed quest for sunlight. Readability: 7.4 Resources: power words, alternate version at Science News

Analyze This: Corals stash microplastics in their skeletons: Scientists have wondered where the ocean’s microplastic pollution ends up. Corals may trap about 1 percent of particles in tropical waters each year.Readability: 7.3 Resources: graphs, power words, alternate version at Science News

Ponds made to control floods can spew climate-warming gases, study finds: Younger stormwater ponds can release more carbon in gases than they absorb, a study finds. That could aggravate global warming. Readability: 6.4 Resources: classroom questions, power words

New cloth cools you when you’re hot, warms you when you’re cold: Scientists 3-D printed the new fabric, which has even more tricks up its sleeve — such as conducting electricity and resisting radio waves. Readability: 7.5 Resources: classroom questions, power words

Scientists Say: Migration: Migration involves the movement of animals or people from one place to another. Readability: 7.7 Resources: power words, audio recording

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The world’s corals may accumulate up to 20 million kilograms of plastic each year. That’s the weight of about 10,000 cars! In the latest installment in our data-literacy series, Analyze This, students can inspect the data that led to this staggering estimate.

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