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Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

Aug. 13, 2003

Powers of Ten

Florida State University's "Molecular Expressions" Web site offers a fascinating sequence of images, each one 10 times bigger or smaller in scale than the one preceding or following it. The journey ranges from a view of the universe 10 million light years away from the Milky Way to an impressionistic glimpse of a diminutive sea of quarks. Requires a Java-enabled browser.

Go to: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

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