Cold and sweet in the heat.
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Have you ever felt a piercing pain in your head when you eat something cold?
A Furcifer pardalis (panther chameleon) sleeps in a tree in Madagascar.
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All chameleons are able to change colour at least a little bit, but some species can do it much more than others.
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When we yell, our vocal cords bash together extra hard, causing them to get sore and swollen. The swelling can develop over a few hours so you might notice hoarseness more the next day.
A natural color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
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A young reader asks: Is Pluto a planet?
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Grownups don’t get taller, but they can grow in other ways.
Some wasps are social insects, meaning they live in groups and have a queen.
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Bees aren’t the only species that has a queen.
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Our bodies are made up of cells that multiply to repair our organs. But organs like our liver and skin are better at regeneration than our brain.
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A mass extinction 66 million years ago killed the non-bird dinosaurs, but plants survived.
Depending on where you’re from, you say words like ‘basil’ a specific way.
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Accents differ depending on where we’re from, even in the same country.
Holey moley!
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When the holes – also called ‘eyes’ – don’t appear in a batch, cheesemakers say the cheese is ‘blind.’
It’s an age-old battle between parents and kids.
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Leaving your coat at home on a cold winter day doesn’t automatically mean you’re going to get sick. But it could make you more susceptible to germs.
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We can answer this question by looking at the differences between the first, second and third layers of our skin.
Even identical twins have different fingerprints.
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You’ve had your own personal set of fingerprints since before you were born, and they’ll be with you throughout your whole life.
Unlike Earth’s atmosphere, Jupiter’s ‘sky’ hosts magnificent shades of orange, white, brown and blue.
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Atmospheres can be all different colours, depending on what’s in them.
There are many ideas about why languages evolve – and all of them are likely to contain an element of truth.
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Languages are always changing and evolving- largely because humans have alwasy been on the move.
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Spit, drool, dribble, slaver, slobber or sputum – saliva has many different names. It also has many different jobs.
Many books, like ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ contain symbolism.
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Authors sometimes put deeper meanings into their stories, but really, it’s the reader who decides.
You open your mouth and sound comes out but what’s happening in your body?
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The sound comes from our lungs and our voice box, which is at the front of the throat. Here’s how it works.
Saturn is one of a few planets in our solar system surrounded by rings.
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We’re not sure how the rings work or how they formed, but there are a few theories.
Dr. Winifred Frick examines a bat for white-nose syndrome.
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Researchers are puzzled by a fungus that is killing millions of bats.