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Nobel Prize winners inspire young minds in new scientific articles for kids 

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Frontiers for Young Minds launches third volume of Nobel Collection articles for young readers Photo credit: Frontiers Frontiers for Young Minds , an award-winning, non-profit, open-access scientific journal for kids, has released the third volume of its Nobel Collection today. Atoms are small units of matter that create everything we see.

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Nobel Prize winners publish new scientific articles just for kids 

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Latest Nobel Collection articles offer fresh excitement to young scientists Photo credit: Frontiers Frontiers for Young Minds , a unique, completely free kids’ science journal launched its second Nobel Collection today. On The Magic Tricks of Superfluids , written by Michael Kosterlitz , awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016.

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Topological fluids, the proton radius and art and science: the June 2021 issue of Physics World magazine is now out

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Big questions: the June 2021 issue of Physics World magazine. Whether it’s the existence of the Higgs boson, dark matter or gravitational waves, some questions in physics just take an extraordinarily long time to settle. Quite why physicists settled on the lower value is the theme of the article.

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Five articles you need to check out on the future of astronomy and astrophysics

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Frontiers highlights some of the top astronomy articles we have published recently. In a field as vast as space itself, cutting-edge work may be concerned with particles so small they are invisible to the human eye. Similarly, discoveries may be about whole galaxies.

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Secret role of swallowing in conversations revealed by new research

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Swallowing is a complex physical process and is at the boundary between speech and the body; yet we know very little about how swallowing and speaking work together in everyday interaction. Read original article ? Download original article (pdf). Selling the articles is not allowed. What happens when we swallow?

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Most read article of May 2022: Surprising finding shows children grow faster during the school year than summer vacation

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Each month, Frontiers shines a spotlight on some of the leading research across a wide range of topics. Causes of this include changes in kids’ physical activity and diet over the summer period, including the summer holidays. Article link: [link]. By Colm Gorey, Frontiers Science Communications Manager. Image: Shutterstock.com.

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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

Physics World

That’s because the corona emits highly variable charged particles, magnetic fields, X-rays and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, which can cause troublesome variations in the structure of the Earth’s ionosphere and trigger “radio blackouts”. In fact, almost one article about the solar corona has been published per day since 1943.