Wildlife scientist and whale snot expert Vanessa Pirotta joins us on the first episode of The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
The number zero was a relatively recent and crucial addition − it allows numbers to extend in both directions forever.
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Here’s a game: Tell a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger. Just add ‘1’ to whatever number they come up with and you’re sure to win.
Rock dust is only part of the story of soil. Living creatures, many of them too tiny to see, keep that soil healthy for growing everything from food to forests.
U.S. airlines carry more than 800 million passengers per year.
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People have been flying airplanes for well over a century. Engineers know how to balance all the forces at play, but still aren’t exactly sure how some of the physics of flight actually works.
The reason trees need sunlight is the same reason their leaves are green.
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Trees – and all plants – harvest sunlight to gain the energy they need to live and grow.
The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.
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Personality is shaped by our genes and various influences in our social environments, and it plays an important role in how we interact with the world.
Some parts of the U.S. see well over 100 inches (2.5 meters) of snow per year.
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Stopping someone against their will can be false imprisonment or even kidnapping. There are laws that determine who is acting as a hero and who is acting as a vigilante.