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#715 How are memories stored?

How are memories stored? The brain stores them by altering the connections between neurons. The brains of all organisms that have them are made up of neurons, in different amounts. Our brain has approximately 100 billion of them. A neuron is a nerve cell and it is made up of three parts. In the middle

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#713 What is a jungle?

What is a jungle? It is generally an area of dense forest in a tropical climate. Many people think a rainforest is a jungle but they are different because a rainforest is a specific ecosystem, and a jungle is a description of an overgrown and tangled forest. The word “jungle” has come into English from

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#712 Is a force field possible?

Is a force field possible? In theory, there are several possibilities, such as warping space time, electric fields, directional lasers, a controllable plasma, a magnetic field, and others. We have all seen science fiction movies where a spaceship is protected by a forcefield that destroys enemy fire when it comes into contact. The recent movie

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#711 Why do bees abandon a hive?

There are many reasons why bees swarm out of a hive. It could be climate change, disease, disturbances, lack of resources, or many other things. There are many different species of bees and many different types of colonies, but an average bee colony has about 50,000 worker bees, 100 drones, one queen, and lots of

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#708 What is the pH scale?

What is the pH scale? It probably stands for potential of hydrogen and it shows how much hydrogen is in a substance. The pH scale is written with a capital H because the symbols for the elements are always written with a capital. However, when the scale was invented by a Danish chemist called Soren

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