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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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Venus is one of the four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, meaning that, like Earth, it is a rocky body. In size and mass, it is similar to Earth, and is often described as Earth’s “sister” or “twin”. The diameter of Venus is 12,092 km (only 650 km less than Earth’s) and its mass is 81.5% of
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Desert and dry scrubland describes any area that receives less than 250mm of rainfall a year. Not just the endless, baking sand dunes of popular conception, it includes arid areas in temperate regions. Plants in this habitat are well adapted to conserving water and often have to survive extremely hot days and cold nights when
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Upon hearing the word food chain, what comes to mind? A long chain made of food? Or the relationship that exists between plants and animals in an ecosystem? Let’s learn more. Who Eats What? A food chain shows how animals eat the plants and other animals that live around them. A food chain usually starts with
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This device is known as an ovillanta – which when translated loosely from Spanish means tyre for laying eggs. It was developed by Gerardo Ulibarri Ph.D, an associate professor of medicinal chemistry and eco-health at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He developed it as a means of destroying the larvae of the Aedes mosquito, a genus of mosquito that carries the
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As part of an experiment to determine the sustainability of life in space; returning astronaut, Scott Kelly returned with seeds of a vegetable – the salad leaf rocket – which had been carefully sorted and packed in space, and are to be distributed to 8,500 schools, children’s clubs and societies that have signed up for
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Have you ever noticed that as a cut or wound heals, and scab forms over the wound, it begins to itch rather badly? In fact, if one isn’t careful, one would scratch mindlessly until the scab breaks, blood oozes out, and the wound is exposed once more with the process of healing starting all over
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