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Reading Time: 5 minutesHow much blood do newborns have? THE important component to keep a human alive is blood. Blood is a liquid found in blood vessels. Blood is made of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Blood is pumped from the heart to all parts of the body. Bloods helps to distribute oxygen and […]
The 5Ws and H of Science
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhy are clownfishes not stung by sea anemones? THE partnership between clownfish and sea anemones is one of the most iconic in the animal world. Unlike in Pixar’s film Finding Nemo, clownfish seldom stray far from their anemone. The clownfish live within the sea anemone’s poisonous tentacles. Those tentacles keep would-be predators at bay, including […]
The 5Ws and H of Science continues…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhich mammals lay leathery eggs? TWO MAMMALS, the duck-billed platypus and the echidna (spiny anteater), do not give birth to live young. Instead, they are very primitive for mammals because, like reptiles and birds, they lay eggs rather than having live birth. They lay eggs that are protected by leathery shells. After laying eggs in […]
The 5Ws and H of Science
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is a PROTEIN? PROTEINS are large molecules playing important functions that make living things alive. They are made out of different combinations of 20 types of amino acids, like words out of a 20-letter alphabet — but long ones with hundreds of letters, even longer than 34,000 letters like the muscle protein titin! Each […]
Study: India-Pakistan nuke war will kill millions
Reading Time: 3 minutesA NUCLEAR WAR between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people — more than the death toll during all six years of World War II, according to new research. A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Rutgers University examines how […]
Ants: Jam-free traffic champions
Reading Time: 2 minutesWHETHER they occur on holiday routes or the daily commute, traffic jams affect cars as well as pedestrians. Scientists at the Research Center on Animal Cognition (CNRS/Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier) and the University of Arizona (United States) have demonstrated that ant colonies, however, are spared these problems and circulate easily, even in the […]
Scientists find early humans moved through Mediterranean earlier than believed
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed new evidence in Greece proving that the island of Naxos was inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier humans at least 200,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed. The findings, published today in the journal Science Advances, are based on […]
Changes in weather intensity of weather events can be catastrophic
Reading Time: 2 minutesHURRICANE DORIAN is the latest example of a frightening trend. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, more severe and more widespread as a consequence of climate change. New research from Washington University in St Louis provides important new insights into how different species may fare under this new normal. Faced with unprecedented change, animals […]
Crabs can solve and remember their way around a maze
Reading Time: 2 minutesA NEW Swansea University study has revealed how common shore crabs can navigate their way around a complex maze and can even remember the route in order to find food. The team of scientists, led by marine biologist Dr Ed Pope and master’s student Ross Davies, wanted to see if common shore crabs could learn […]
An Immortal Creature
Reading Time: 4 minutesWITH more than 1000 species identified, tardigrades commonly known as little water bears or moss piglet are micro animals which can only be seen under a microscope. They are at most only one millimetre long. Tardigrade was first described in 1773 by a German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze. It was initially named by an […]