Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. It is best known for its fabulous ring system that was discovered in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Facts about Planet Saturn 1. Saturn is the farthest planet from Earth visible to the naked human
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Where would you go if you could choose to live on a planet other than Earth? Are you thinking Mars? BBC iWonder tells us that scientists predict there may be about 40 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, yes 40 billion! Yet, the Milky Way is just one galaxy out of countless billions in Space,
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According to an interactive video on BBC iWonder, an average adult takes in 3.2 litres of water daily (that is more than 3 bottles of Big Eva water). But I hardly see anyone guzzling this amount of water daily, you say. And you would be right! For a fact, only a third of this amount – about
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Blood is very vital to life, and in some instances, doctors have prescribed blood transfusions as a remedy for keeping someone alive. This procedure would be risky if blood that doesn’t match the one your body produces is administered; yet, this was the case until 1901 when a scientist made some interesting findings. And his
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How true is the popular apple story that led to the law of gravitational force? The popular laws of motion, our favorite being the 3rd law which we use to explain away our hostile action of revenge. You also didn’t know that the Calculus you battle with in mathematics was designed by this great mind.
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On Tuesday, June 14, Oracle – a leading business software maker – donated ₦597 million to an earlier ₦40 billion support fund targeted at empowering and engaging girls and women worldwide into studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics or STEM. While the first installation was to encourage young people around the world to study STEM, this
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Have you ever wondered how the stars remain in the sky without falling off? Or How far they are to the earth? Or what the size of a star might be if it was nearer to you? You are about to find out the answers to these questions and more. Read on!. What is a
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Names have now been proposed for the four new chemical elements added to the periodic table in January. They are nihonium (with the symbol Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og). Until now, the quartet had been referred to simply by the number of protons in each atom – 113, 115, 117 and 118, respectively. The
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Can you imagine a life where you reach maturity in the seventeenth year of your life, emerge from underground soil, shed your exoskeleton, and moult into an adult. With strong wings, you fly through the air, mate, then die? Horrible? Bittersweet? Well, that’s the life of a type of insect called cicada. The Life Cycle
Have you ever heard a recording of your own voice? How did it sound to you? I am sure it sounded different, and you were left asking: Is this really the way I sound? Is this how other people hear me? I sound rather weird! You are not alone, all hearing human feel this way,
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