people

remini-SCENT

Humans may not have invented and built time machines yet but we are born with something pretty close - our sense of smell!

NEW TECH TO HELP DETECT BREAST CANCER

These young women are making breast cancer detection less complicated, less expensive, and less scary.

The Birka Warrior

it was the 1000-year-old grave of a man considered to be the ultimate viking warrior, and then an awesome discovery was made

animals

BIOLUMINESCENCE

THROUGHOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ARE FAIRYTALE-LIKE CREATURES WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO TWINKLE AND GLOW. THEY DO IT TO FIND LOVE, FOOD AND SAFETY.

WHALE SPOTIFY

THE SONGS WE LISTEN TO CAN TELL PEOPLE A LOT ABOUT US, like where we are from and where we have traveled, and THE SAME CAN BE SAID ABOUT THE SONGS SUNG BY WHALES

whale stradning

WHEN 230 PILOT WHALES RECENTLY BECAME STRANDED ON OCEAN BEACH, TASMANIA, RESCUERS IMMEDIATELY JUMPED INTO ACTION - AND SO DID THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.

PLANETS

photos of the universe

Get a photo of how the Universe looked on your birthday thanks to the kind people at nasa and the hubble telescope

the changing colours of the sky

Sunsets are red, afternoons are blue, here ARE SOME FUN FACTS FOR YOU

Reading history written in ice

WATER AND BUBBLES TRAPPED IN ICE CAN TELL US A LOT ABOUT THE HISTORY (& future) OF OUR PLANET

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GERTRUDE B. ELION

Émilie du Châtelet

SHE COULD HAVE SPENT HER TIME PARTYING WITH ROYALTY - BUT INSTEAD, ÉMILIE DU CHÂTELET FOUGHT (SOMETIMES SWORD IN HAND) TO PURSUE HER DREAMS.

GRETEL WAUGH

plants

succulents - spread the love

Thanks to their ability to reproduce asexually, you can take one succulent plant and use it to grow an entire garden

PLANTS ‘SCREAM’ UNDER STRESS

THOUGH IT TAKES SPECIAL EQUIPMENT TO HEAR IT, WE CAN NOW HEAR THE ULTRASONIC SQUEALS OF PLANTS WHEN THEY SUFFER

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION CAN BE A TRICKY THING TO GET YOUR HEAD AROUND - THANKFULLY THE cute and colourful ‘AMOEBA SISTERS’ ARE HERE TO HELP

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