Short science articles

The website Popular Science has a section called Short Science Articles, which can be very useful as reading texts for lower level students. Each article is short enough to be less than one page on the screen, and range over many science topics (medicine, health, technology, physics, etc.).

http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/short-science-articles

Curiously, although other news articles on this website are current, the articles in the Short Science Articles section are dated from 2009. However, most of them are still newsworthy. Example headlines:

• "A squirt of stem cells gel heals brain injuries"
• "Website yields unexpected results in the business of artifacts"

and - my favorite - (headed "Science confirms the obvious"):

• "Parents and adult children: mutually irritating"

 In fact, there are other short articles headed "Science confirms the obvious," which could lead to some amusing ideas from the students for other articles in this series.