While space is mostly empty, it does have some matter and particles spread throughout it.
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Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes.
We don’t generate power directly from volcanoes, but their presence is a sign that there are good geothermal resources underground that can be tapped.
It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.
Try to read this article without yawning.
It’s a fundamental requirement for life on Earth. But how does water exist on such a forbidding world as the Moon?
What makes a relationship last when feelings fade or circumstances change? Can you force yourself to love someone you hate or don’t care about?
Texas, Florida and 7 other states have no income tax, but they make up for it with other taxes. Sometimes those taxes mean low-income residents pay a larger percentage of their money in taxes.
Liquid water, breathable air and a sustainable food supply are three of the essentials Mars would need for people to live comfortably there.
Corn has its roots in Mexico about 9,000 years ago.
It’s not a competition, but if it were, Saturn would be winning.
The feeling of pins and needles, which you might also call ‘bubbles’ or ‘tingles’, comes from our nerves.
The answer depends in part on where you live. If it’s extremely hot and humid, the health risks are much higher.
Underwater construction is a complex and difficult task, but engineers have developed several ways to build underwater … mostly by not building underwater at all.
Phenomena like the Northern Lights and rainbows can seem magical – even to physicists like Partha Chowdhury who study them.
It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about how and why chameleons change colour in The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Whether we can recycle plastic or not depends on what it’s made of (because there are many different types of plastic), if it’s sufficiently clean and if enough people will buy recycled products.
Paleontologist Bill Ausich explains whether dinosaurs could ever roam the Earth again. Listen on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Psychologist Deborah Wells explains why dogs are so cute - and yours in particular – on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
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