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- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 21, 2015
Some people think of mummies as scary monsters, but kids science knows better. A mummy is actually any body that has been dried out; this can happen in ice, in acid bogs, and in the desert. By using science to study these ancient bodies, we can learn the stories of people who lived thousands of
READ MOREOur bodies are made up of cells, and each kind of cell does its own job. Some cells are bigger than others, but do you know what the biggest cell in the world is? It’s an egg! If you crack a chicken egg into a bowl and look at it, that yellow part is a
READ MOREYou know it’s coming. You feel that tickle way in the back of your head. Your nose scrunches up, your eyes squeeze closed, you draw in a deep breath, and then it explodes: AH-CHOO! Sneezing is your body’s way of getting rid of an irritation in your nose, and it’s suprisingly complicated. Sneezing involves muscles
READ MOREIf you listen to a hive of bees, what you’ll hear is a droning, humming buzz. Sometimes it gets so loud that you might wonder how the bees hear each other at all. Well, the truth is: they don’t. Bees don’t need to hear each other, because they don’t talk to each other using sounds.
READ MOREWhen humans want to figure out what’s going on around them, their first instinct is to look around and see. Sight is the sense most humans rely on to understand the world. But dogs use a different sense – they follow their noses! Dogs have an incredibly powerful sense of smell. Depending on the breed
READ MOREWhen you think of insects, most people think of tiny flies or buzzing bees. But not all insects are small. Some of them are massive! The longest insect in the world is one of a newly-discovered species of stick insect called “Chan’s megastick”. At 56 centimetres, as long as your arm, it set a new
READ MOREHey kids, if you held a contest to find the strongest animal in the world, who do you think the winner would be? Would it be an elephant? Or maybe a giant squid? If we made all the animals the same size to make it a fair contest, the winner is an animal that can
READ MOREThere’s only one kind of bird in the whole world that can fly backwards. They can not only fly backwards, but they can also fly side-to-side, hover in place, and even fly upside down! They can accomplish this amazing feat because their wings are different from all other birds. Can you guess what it is?
READ MORECan you stick your tongue out and roll it into a tube? If you can, than you’re one of 85% of people who can do it! A lot of people think that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body, but that’s not quite true; your tongue is actually made up of sixteen muscles
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