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The answer comes from how the Romans measured the year.
Scientists need to be good at asking questions, investigating the world to find answers, and keeping in mind that no matter how much they know, there’s always more to learn.
DNA contains all the instructions needed to make your body work.
Hard and strong, or bendy and flexible? A cartilaginous skeleton provides advantages in the ocean, but wouldn’t stand up to life on land.
Humans might one day be able to live somewhere else in the Universe.
Poop comes in many shapes, sizes and textures. The kind that’s too runny might be the result of wayward germs, Crohn’s disease or lactose intolerance.
That brownish/yellowish gunk that comes out on your finger if you scratch deep inside your ear? It actually serves an important purpose in your body.
You can imagine a white hole as being a black hole in reverse — but is such a thing really possible?
Though you might not think so to look at them, plants have a busy day.
Blood plays a vital role in keeping us alive, from delivering oxygen to the body’s organs to fighting off infections.
What we call mosquitoes are actually 3500 different types of insects, and they all behave differently.
Time ends when the universe does.
How did penguins end up with so few bones – and become lightning-fast swimmers?
Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.
A healthy diet can include some candy. But if you eat too much, it can interfere with your appetite for the stuff your body actually needs.
Only a planet crashing into it might stop the Earth’s spin.
Having intelligence helps humans survive.
In some ways, a space rocket and a passenger aircraft fly much the same. But there is one big reason we can’t just take an aircraft into space.
Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous people who view them as sacred.
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