Current Science

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Teachers! Please help us meet your
classroom needs. Take a few
minutes to answer the
questions on our end-of-year
survey and return it to us.
We will enter your name in
a random drawing and five
winners will each receive a
free clasroom subscription
to the 2008-2009 Current Science.
You can access the survey
by clicking here. (See complete
contest rules here.)

AND THE WINNERS ARE . . .
Congratulations to the winners
of Current Science's Mystery
Photo Contest. They are (from
left to right) Eric Dunn, Deanna
Frederick, Maria Schueller, and
Briana Weyker, students in
Maureen Mersberger's seventh-
grade science class at Cedar
Grove-Belgium Middle School
in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin.

Most of the Mystery Photos featured in
Current Science are taken by student
photographers. For each photo published
in the magazine, the photographer receives
$50 plus a T-shirt with the photo printed
on the front. The photographer or classroom
with the most photos published in a school
year wins the Mystery Photo Contest. Please
e-mail your photos to

mysteryphotos@weeklyreader.com

Or send them via regular mail to:

Mystery Photo Editor
Current Science
Weekly Reader Publishing
1 Reader's Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY
10570-7000

UPDATE
In its January 18, 2008 issue, Current Science
reported on an upcoming flight of the NASA
spacecraft Cassini. The craft was scheduled to
fly through one of the plumes of ice and water
that rises from Saturn's moon Encedaldus to
determine the plume's exact contents. That fly-through
has now happened and the findings are described
in this New York Times article.

NOW PLAYING!
Check out four animated short
subjects,  each one made
exclusively for Current Science .

"Twisted."
Discover what atmospheric conditions
give rise to nature's most violent storms.

"Under the Hood."
Learn how the internal
combustion engine converts
gasoline into go power.

"Gene Tracing."
Delve into the world of DNA and learn
how to tell a gene from a genome
and a chromosome from a base pair.

"Turbo Charged."  
Find out how almost all of the electricity
we use--all of it except solar-generated
electricity--is produced.

Hands On Science.
Current Science is proud to welcome
Robert Krampf as a regular contributor.
Rob is a roving science educator from
Florida who has taken his amazing science show
around the world, dazzling audiences in appearences on 
CNN, CBS This Morning, The Discovery Channel, and
Late Night with David Letterman, among other places.
Look to the Currrent Science Teacher's Guide
for hands-on experiments prepared by Rob that
you can use to demonstrate concepts described in the magazine.

Department of Corrections.
In the Teacher's Guide to the
November 30 issue, the answers to
the 10-point and the 20-point
questions in The Solar System
column of the Sci-Triv Game
were inadvertently reversed. The
10-point image is, of course,
Jupiter, and the 20-point image is
Mars. Our apologies go out to all
Jovian and Martian readers of Current Science,
and our thanks to Doyllie Heath
and students at Pinkston Middle
School in Mountain View, Arkansas,
for alerting us to the mistake.

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