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I'll Take Penguins in Peril for 500, Alex. (a quiz)

A new long-term study reveals king penguins with tracking bands face increased risks. Discover the findings and implications!

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Which of this week's science news stories did you catch? I know Watson would ace this quiz.

1. Distressingly, a long-term study has shown that king penguins with tracking bands attached their flippers are more likely to:

a. die

b. develop infections

c. become obese

d. abandon their young

2. Testing anxiety can cause students to underperform on exams. But researchers at the University of Chicago showed that in a high-stakes test environment, both high-school and college students did better on exams when they:a. studied lessb. wrote about their feelings for 10 minutes before the testc. ate chocolate before the testd. watched a film about Stephen Hawking before test

3. Daily Double!! What is this?

a. a colony of bioluminescent bacteriab. the surface of an exoplanetc. a picture of the universed. part of Fermilab's particle accelerator, which will be shut down this year

4. At a 6,000-year-old site in an ...

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