The Problem With Life Expectancy
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology...In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution.
The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
AdultsEducationEnvironmentNature...The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.
How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3
AdultsBiologyEducationScience...In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for another precious moment. To get the oxygen to your cells you are breathing.
The Science of SPLAT!
AdultsCreativityDesignEducation...Surprisingly, flattened fauna can teach us a lot about wildlife biology.
Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
AdultsConstructionEducationNature...Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxonomic ancestry, not the wood's actual hardness.
Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?
AdultsAnimalsEducationScience...Getting wet isn’t REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer or dryer, they migrate in relation to each other in a process called “felting.”