A new study just emerged about coffee that totally supports your coffee habit! The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that coffee drinkers had a "modestly lower risk of death then the non-coffee drinkers." Thanks to NPR for relaying the GREAT news about my beloved drink!

Every so often scientists will tell us something different about coffee. Sometimes they tell you it is bad for you and you should avoid it, others will tell you coffee is good for you and is full of antioxidants that help your body out. It is hard to keep track but Neil Freedmen of the National Cancer Institute took up the challenge.

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Most people have by now heard of the Mayan calendar and the claims that it predicts the end of the world in 2012. Of course, experts have always emphasized that this is not the case, but now they have extra proof to back them up. Archaeologists recently reported on newly discovered astronomical calculations, dating 600 years earlier than those previously discovered.

The Mayans paid attention to the patterns of the moon and stars for religious reasons, but the level of detail found on the walls of the six-foot-square room goes beyond the practical needs of religious ceremonies. Anthony Aveni, one of the archaeologists reporting the discovery, speculates that the scribes could have been “geeks ... who just got carried away with doing these kinds of computations and calculations, and probably did them far beyond the needs of ordinary society.” The previous Mayan calendars didn't go beyond 2012, but the new one goes hundreds of years into the future.

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A millimeter (the littlest lines on most school rulers) is one thousandth of a meter. A micrometer is one thousandth of a millimeter, and one millionth of meter. (A hair is about 15 micrometers wide.) The new exhibit coming to Science Center, though, is about things even smaller!

A nanometer is one thousandth of a micrometer, or one billionth of a meter! (That’s about the size of a molecule.) Amazing Nano Worlds! is all about things happening at this tiny, tiny scale. I’m excited for the exhibit, because it’s designed to take the world of nano and make it big enough to be hands-on, kid-friendly, and fun for all!

Nano things aren’t just for science geeks like yours truly: Nano materials can have big-world applications, like the coating for stain-resistant pants or the coloring of red stained glass. New technology is allowing us to see things on the nano-level that were too small to see before, and new innovations are making what we find more and more useful.

Amazing Nano Worlds! opens June 1. So if you’re planning your first St. Louis outing of the summer, be sure to stop by the Science Center and check it out!