|
How Do We Catch the Flu?
If you want to be one of the 20 percent of Americans who catch the flu this season, shake hands with a lot of sick people.
|
|
Why Can't We Drink Saltwater?
It tastes bad... and will leave you dehydrated.
|
|
Are Fleas a Health Hazard?
Most are just a nuisance, but one type is known to spread the plague.
|
|
Why Are Pubic Hairs Curly?
Hormones give pubic hairs their curl.
|
|
What Is a Mirage?
|
|
How Long Can a Person Survive Without Water?
If you're ever stuck out in the wilderness, remember what survival experts call the Rule of Threes."
|
|
Do Fish Cry?
Fish yawn, cough, and even burp. But they don’t get choked up.
|
|
Why Do Dead Fish Float?
As a fish decomposes, gases fill the body cavity like a balloon.
|
|
Were Dinosaurs Colorful?
Dinosaurs had bumpy skin, similar to the skin of an alligator or a flightless emu bird. But their skin color remains a mystery to paleontologists today.
|
|
How Did Dinosaurs Communicate?
Dinosaurs definitely didn’t have email and text messages to keep in touch with friends, but scientists are quite certain that there was dialogue among the beasts.
|
|
How Old Were the Oldest Dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs are keeping mum on exactly how many birthdays they celebrated back in the day.
|
|
What Is the Smallest Dinosaur?
The world’s most diminutive dinosaur is... a hummingbird!
|
|
How Do Dinosaurs Get Their Names?
Dinosaurs earn their names just like Tiny Tim, Andre the Giant and William “The Fridge†Perry.
|
|
What Makes Food Taste Sweet?
|
|
Do Microwaves Rob Food of Nutrients?
|
|
What Makes Us Burp?
The only thing grosser than a burp is what causes it: bacteria deep in your belly. And, of course, extra gas and fizzy drinks.
|
|
Where Do Fruit Flies Come From?
Fruit flies need very little to call your kitchen their “home, sweet home.â€
|
|
Can Airplanes Fly into Outer Space?
First you have to travel at seven miles per second.
|
|
Why Do Lizards Lose Their Tails?
Lizards lose their tails to throw off predators.
|
|
What is a Cinnamon Stick?
People have been spicing up their lives with cinnamon sticks since biblical times.
|
|
Why is Dark Meat Dark?
It's all in the myoglobin.
|
|
What Do Turkeys and T. Rex Have in Common?
Both dinos and turkeys have a furcula. Now, what's that?
|
|
What is Nuclear Fusion?
|
|
What is Nuclear Fission?
Nuclear fission is a reaction in which a large nuclei breaks apart into two smaller nuclei, releasing a great deal of energy.
|
|
What Causes Bedwetting?
As embarrassing as it is, we are all born wetting the bed. Learning to hold it in is a natural part of growing up.
|
|
<< Previous Page
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 Next >>
|
|