Science News for Kids » supernova http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Sat, 18 May 2013 19:04:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Teens seek invention protection http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/03/teens-seek-invention-protection/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/03/teens-seek-invention-protection/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:09:36 +0000 Kellyn Betts http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=16053 Credit: Stuart Burdford / iStock Photo

Increasingly, young researchers seek patents to defend their innovations against theft ]]> Credit: Stuart Burdford / iStock Photo

Increasingly, young researchers seek patents to defend their innovations against theft ]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/03/teens-seek-invention-protection/feed/ 0 Where cosmic rays are born http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/02/where-cosmic-rays-are-born/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/02/where-cosmic-rays-are-born/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:14:47 +0000 Sid Perkins http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=15680 Here we go! Shock waves in the clouds of gas surrounding an exploding star (as in this artist’s depiction) accelerate charged particles called protons to very high speed, creating cosmic rays. Credit: Greg Stewart, SLAC Nat'l Accelerator Lab.

New evidence links origin of these very energetic particles to massive explosions of distant stars]]> Here we go! Shock waves in the clouds of gas surrounding an exploding star (as in this artist’s depiction) accelerate charged particles called protons to very high speed, creating cosmic rays. Credit: Greg Stewart, SLAC Nat'l Accelerator Lab.

New evidence links origin of these very energetic particles to massive explosions of distant stars]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/02/where-cosmic-rays-are-born/feed/ 0