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Extended periods of rain are most likely found in locations where mountains are near oceans.
A bat’s body is really good at tolerating diseases.
The answer is more complicated than you might think. It has to do with how your body gets rid of old red blood cells.
Scientists are studying fires in Africa at different times of year to see how the smoke from these fires changes over the year.
A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not.
Crocodiles can survive without food for a long time – even up to more than a year – because of how well they can save their energy.
Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?
We have to look back to the Big Bang to find out.
Impact craters are relatively shallow, so these bowl-shaped “dents” in Earth’s rocky crust can be easily buried or erased by erosion.
Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?
The fastest things ever made by humans are spacecraft, and the fastest spacecraft reached 330,000 mph – only 0.05% the speed of light. But there are ways to go faster.
Our brain is amazing. It tells us when we need to drink more water. And one of the ways it tells us is to make us feel thirsty.
This is a really important question, and one which climatologists work on in many aspects of their jobs.
A fly does some of its digesting outside its body before it even eats any food.
It can get very cold in space.
Energy isn’t really made of anything else. It’s a kind of capacity to do things
Walking has taken a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly 4.4 million years ago.
Most jellyfish are “passive” feeders. This means that they float through the water eating whatever they happen to pass in the water and can fit in their mouths.
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