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Did you know that parrots can be trained to say up to 200 words and shortphrases. In fact their ability to mimic human language is so well known thatmany parrot owners initially purchase the bird for this reason alone.Read full story »...
We all know that deserts are one of the driest places in the world but didyou know that the Atacama desert in Chile is the driest. To understand whatthat really means let’s take as an example the Sahara desert (the worldslargest hot desert) and note that it receives a meager 2mm of rain eachyear.Read full story »...
When you hear the word Google the first image that comes to mind has to bethe famous internet search engine but does the word actually mean anything ?Well the answer is a firm yes because it comes from the term “Googol” whichrepresents a number (written as a 1 followed by 100 zeros) so large that it’sactually larger than the total number of atoms in the known universe.Read full story »...
Now despite science coming forward in leaps and bounds the simple questionof how much the Earth weighs isn’t as straightforward as you might think.Certainly placing the earth onto a massive set of weighing scales isn’t anoption. So how do we measure the total weight of the earth ?Read full story »...
At just 5cm long and 2g in weight the smallest bird in the world is noneother than the Bee Hummingbird. Found mainly in Cuba and also holding therecord for the smallest egg in the world these guys are tiny.Read full story »...
Despite the visual similarities between the two both are actually members ofdistinct families. Spiders are members of the Arachnid family whilst insectsbelong to the Insect family. So what makes the two families different ?Read full story »...
Well imagine going 500,000 times faster than a concorde and you have a speednearing 299,792,458 meters per second. This is the speed of light as it travelsthrough a vaccum which is so fast that if you were able to move at this speedyou could go around the earth 7 times in just 1 second, now that’s fast!Read full story »...
Most historians document the first vaccination to around 1796 when Englishdoctor Edward Jenner made the connection between people working with cows andtheir immunity to smallpox. For those that don’t know much about the virus orits severity then imagine chicken pox or the measles but much worse.Read full story »...
This is a question we get asked a lot so we thought we’d put people out oftheir misery. Firstly the word robot comes from the Czech word‘robotnik‘ which means forced labour or even slave. Watching movieslike I Robot, Wall-E and reading various sci-fi novels of the past you’llquickly see that robots have mostly always been portrayed as helpers andservents of humanity.Read full story »...
Lake Baikal (Baikal) in Siberia, Russia is the deepest lake in the worldmeasuring 1620m deep at its deepest point. This makes it not only deep but alsothe oldest lake in the world estimated to be around 25 million years old. Atover 636 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide this fresh water lake holdsover 20 percent of all the fresh water in the world and is second in size onlyto the Caspian Sea (the caspian is cal...