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Scientists Say: Confirmation Bias This is our tendency to look for and believe info that confirms what we already think, from ScienceNewsExplores
Scientists Say: Statistical significance Scientists use this phrase when they think they have a result that is too different to have happened by accident, from ScienceNewsExplores
Sciences Say: Uncertainty This word is used to express how much measurements might vary, from ScienceNewsExplores
How AI is Changing the Way We Think about Plagiarism Blog post by Jonathan Bailey from PlagiarismToday.

Who Owns the Moon? And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
By Cynthia Levinson and Jennifer Swanson. Penguin Random House Books for Young Readers.
A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools
By Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury Children's Books.
Jada Sly, Artist & Spy
By Sherri Winston. Little, Brown, & Company Books for Young Readers.
The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World's Great Scientists
By Kate Messner, illus. by Julia Kuo. Chronicle Books.
Tree. Table. Book.
By Lois Lowry. HarperCollins.
Ant Story
By Jay Hosler, biologist and cartoonist. HarperAlley.
Loch Ness Uncovered: Media, Misinformation, and the Greatest Monster Hoax of All Time
By Rebecca Siegel. Astra Young Readers.
Of Her Own Design
By Nicole Andelfinger and Birdie Willis, illus. by Eva Cabrera et al. Mad Cave.
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Graphic novel about a high school sophomore "struggling to think of a concept for her next writing project."
Spooky Lakes
By Geo Rutherford. Abrams Books.
Alex Haley: And the Books that Changed a Nation
By Robert J. Norrell. Macmillan.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot. PenguinRandomHouse.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Lerner Publishing Group