AIE — Adventures In Education

Aug 2, 2007 - Orangutans use 'charades' to talk. Researchers show orangutans intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across. (BBC News)

Jul 16, 2007 - Viking ship attempts sea crossing. A replica Viking ship heads across the North Sea as it tries to recreate the voyages of early Norsemen. (BBC News)

Jul 15, 2007 - Give yourself a pop quiz on geography site. For the inner nerd in all of us, I discovered http://www.iliketolearn.com , a fun interactive site from a teacher that can help improve your geographical knowledge. (Los Angeles Times)

Jul 13, 2007 - At Tech Camp, Video Games, Robots -- and No Lanyards. The Bible says it took God a week to create the universe. At Cybercamps, this feat took 14-year-old Justin Cook about two days. (Washington Post)

Jun 26, 2007 - Artificial skin 'cuts scarring'. A prototype artificial skin which can be used to heal wounds has been developed by British researchers. (BBC News)

Jun 26, 2007 - Tropical giant penguin discovered. Scientists find the fossil of a giant penguin which lived 36 million years ago in the tropics of what is now Peru. (BBC News)

Apr 30, 2007 - Lone tortoise 'not last of kind'. A giant Galapagos tortoise, thought to be the last of its kind, is not so alone after all. (BBC News)

Apr 20, 2007 - 'Pipe organ' plays above the Sun. Immense coils of hot plasma on the atmosphere of the Sun behave like a musical instrument, scientists say. (BBC News)

Apr 20, 2007 - Dwarf stars emit powerful pulse. A class of failed star emits beams of radio waves thousands of times brighter than any released by the Sun. (BBC News)

Apr 19, 2007 - Tiny fossils reveal ice history. Microscopic fossils discovered deep under the ocean floor reveal new details about Antarctica's warmer past. (BBC News)

Apr 17, 2007 - Persistence pays on high school exit exam. Nearly half who failed the high school test are back at the books, and pass rates are climbing. (Los Angeles Times)

Mar 27, 2007 - Scientists make 'healthy' pizzas. Scientists say they have come up with a way of making pizzas more healthy. (BBC News)

Mar 23, 2007 - Sea floor records ancient Earth. A sliver of four billion year old seafloor shows the earliest known evidence of plate tectonics on Earth. (BBC News)

Mar 6, 2007 - Baltimore Students Join JROTC to Improve Lives. Some students trying to improve their lives at Northwestern High School in Baltimore are turning to the military. They're joining the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, to learn discipline and hard work at a school that struggles with high absenteeism and low test scores. (NPR)

Mar 5, 2007 - Student wins trip to Africa in contest. Saratoga middle-school student Jocelyn Takahashi entered a National Geographic Kids magazine contest in November because it was a fun way to earn bonus points for science class. (MercuryNews.com)

Feb 8, 2007 - Italy mystery of prehistoric hug. Archaeologists in Italy unearth two skeletons thought to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, locked in an embrace. (BBC News)

Jan 29, 2007 - Pushing back at bullying. An anti-bias program provides a forum for teenagers where voices are heard and tears and apologies flow. (The New York Times)

Jan 29, 2007 - Frozen sea may harbour Mars life. A frozen sea found on Mars is one of the most promising places to look for life on the Red Planet, scientists say. (BBC News)

Jan 29, 2007 - ''Hobbit'' human ''is a new species.'' The skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found in Indonesia belong to a new branch of our family tree, a study says. (BBC News)

Jan 17, 2007 - Earth Science. Learn about earth's atmosphere and oceans, plate tectonics and geologic time, earthquakes and hurricanes, ecosystems and land use, underseas exploration and ocean habitats, and more. (U.S. Department of Education)

Jan 17, 2007 - Dwarf planet 'becoming a comet.' An unusual dwarf planet discovered in the outer Solar System could be en route to becoming the brightest comet ever known. (BBC News)

Jan 16, 2007 - Protection for 'weirdest' species. A project is launched to protect some of the world's unique creatures, previously ignored by conservationists. (BBC News)

Jan 3, 2007 - Tagging system aims to map monarchs' flight. Monarch butterfly No. 04560 will carry an important message as it flutters away from coastal California this spring. A tiny tag secured to its left wing -- with a code and a toll-free phone number -- could help scientists trace its migration, one of nature's most admired and least understood phenomena. (MercuryNews.com)

Jan 2, 2007 - Seal pups suffer in winter gales. Stormy weather causes difficulties for young seal pups and sanctuaries are struggling to cope with demand. (BBC News)

Jan 2, 2007 - Mars rovers are taught new tricks. Nasa begins testing a "smart" upgrade for its rovers on Mars that will give the robots some autonomy. (BBC News)