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When you hurt yourself, tiny blood vessels can break under the skin. The blood that oozes out is what gives a bruise its colour.
A teen asks why so many young people don’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem. The data shows that young Americans today do view the U.S. more negatively than older generations.
Sometimes the only way to tell the difference between a baby dinosaur and a grown-up one is to find fossils of them both together.
Moths and insects cluster around lights at night. Why?
Hillary Clinton got the most individual votes from US citizens in 2016, but Donald Trump won the most electoral votes.
Young readers ask: How did our moon get its name?
As part of their training, a guide dog will practise getting around some of the most common places the person they will guide needs to go.
An animal’s poop may seem like something to avoid, but it’s full of information about the creature that left it there.
Water and sap inside the wood make mini explosions as they turn into gas and burst out. That’s why damp wood makes the noisiest fires.
Every person’s blood is identified by type. Why does this matter?
Somewhere out there, just maybe, an alien – probably stranger looking than in our wildest imagination – might be pondering this very question.
Stories like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ are still relevant today.
There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so for a long time.
Solar cells make electricity directly from sunlight, but how do they do it?
For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards.
Whistleblowers may stop bad behavior and protect others from harm.
Sweaty feet and certain cheeses have something in common that makes them reek – can you guess what it is?
Fish may not have eyelids to close, but they sleep – and perhaps even dream.
Language can express some of the results of our thinking, but it’s not the thinking itself.
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