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Why Do Leaves Change Colour in Autumn ?Tree use their leaves make food. The leaves contain chlorophyll, a green pigment which together with light from the Sun, carbon dioxide and water results in glucose. Leaves normally contain red, orange and yellow pigments but these are normally masked by the green chl...How To Avoid The Flu This WinterHow you feel can powerfully affect the strength of your immune system and how susceptible you are to infection. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that negative emotions like depression, anger and fear can significantly weaken your immune res...T'ai Chi Can Help Prevent ShinglesShingles is caused by the same virus which causes chicken pox, the Herpes Zoster virus. Once you have had chicken pox, HZV lives in your nerve cells forever and can sometimes reactivate itself. It is usually kept at bay by the immune system by zoster virus specific im...How Big Would Guy Fawkes' Bang Have Been ?We light bonfires and set of fireworks on November the 5th to commemorate the fact that in 1605 Guido Fawkes, now known as Guy, failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But physicists from the Centre for Explosion Studies in Aberystwyth have shown that if he had ac...Brain 'itch' Keeps Catchy Songs in Our HeadsDon’t you just hate it when you get an annoying song stuck in your head and you can’t stop humming it all day? Researchers in America think this happens because these repetitive, catchy songs give us a brain itch, which can only be cured by a cognitive scr...New Bra To Help Smokers QuitA Swiss underwear company has come up with a bra containing lavender and jasmine perfumed capsules, which makes cigarettes have an extremely unpleasant taste.Uk Researchers Begin Anti-cocaine Vaccine TrialA new vaccine to treat cocaine addiction is about to be put to the test in America by its UK designers Xenova Pharmaceuticals. Called TA-CD the vaccine works by encouraging an addict’s immune system to produce antibodies to cocaine, in much the same way as it wo...Hope For Dope ?The results of the first large-scale trial to investigate the benefits of cannabis extracts in multiple sclerosis are out this week. Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a crippling disease which attacks the nervous system, leading to muscle pain and spasms. Researchers at P... |
Some perfumes are made from secretions from animals’ bottoms.   Sloths mate and give birth whilst hanging upside down in trees
Boa constrictors, a kind of snake, can reach 30 feet in length
Raindrops are tear-shaped Mosquitos flap their wings about 600 times a second The word "laser" stands for "Light active streams
emitted by radioactivity" The biggest ever known bird egg is equal to 12,000 of the smallest
known ones? Drinking lime juice can prevent the disease Ricketts The emu is the world’s furthest walking bird, migrating
up to 320 miles? Glucose is a kind of protein The population of the UK is about 100 million The chemical used to kills germs in a swimming pool is called
chlorine The hard white substance that protects your teeth is called dentine
Women produce sperm and men produce eggs |
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