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Third degree burns can happen to anybody! Benjamin has been affected by 3rd degree burns. As a child, at age 5, he pulled a pot of boiling water on his head. It was so bad he had to have a skin graft. This has changed his life forever, because he can never grow back his hair.  ...

Mars-One, a non-profit organization, is planning to get astronauts on Mars as early as 2025. Although anyone over 18 can apply to be one of the astronauts, the selection process and training is extensive and requires that person to be in nearly perfect health. The application ended in August 2013, with over 200,000 applicants interested in being among...

“Hey! Stop daydreaming!” are words you might hear from your teacher if you’re daydreaming in class. But when you’re not daydreaming in class you would never expect to hear the words, “Hey! Start daydreaming!” When she was getting her masters in writing at John Hopkins University, Amy Fries began researching daydreaming and creativity. She became an author...

The disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight 370, which was scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China on March 8, 2014, has raised a lot of questions about the credibility in tracking planes. Many people have complained that for a world with such vast systems of technology we should be able to track a missing...

“Sometimes when I have seizures, it’s because of my nightmares,” says Charleigh, age eight. “They are really scary, but sometimes I can’t remember what happened.” Charleigh has epilepsy when she is scared; it will trigger her seizures. She has a lot of nightmares and the way her brain reacts to it is causing her to have seizures. Some...

A discovery of a new gene could make biofuels more efficient, for not just your car but the environment too. Biofuels are better for the environment than regular gasoline. Biofuels can help clean the air by decreasing the use of fossil fuels burned into the air, says biofuels.org.uk. They also release fewer air pollutants, and they reduce...

“Vert skeepy now ehardly itype hjust wante say hello.  The bathroom has a atv.” On Gypsy’s Guide of Best Jet Lag Stories, Marilyn Terrell recounted her trip from Taipei to LA when she was so tired that her message to her family after landing was nearly incomprehensible. According to the National Association of Managed Care Physicians...

According to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), 67% of all American households play video games of some sort and 25% of them are younger than 18 years old.  Conrad Green, Donovan Minor, and Braulio Campana, all gamers that go to the Denver School of Science and Technology, stated they have played, “collectively…since Monday, …40,” hours of videogames. ...

Have you ever wanted to forget something like a family member dying or going through bullying? According to Dr. Marijn Kroes, a postdoctoral researcher at Radbound University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, you can erase your memory.          According to Kroes, our memories are like plastic. That means that our brains can be changed and erased. This can...

According to the Texan Heart Institute, each year more than 230,000 people in the U.S. have had successful bypass surgeries. It is the most common open heart surgery in the U.S.          In April 2013, my father, Leonid Kaufman, was one of the 230,000 people who underwent successful Coronary Artery Bypass (CAB) surgery.          Before Kaufman had...