What are moles, freckles, and birthmarks? Moles are caused when pigment-producing cells grow in a group. Freckles are caused when your skin cells produce too much melanin. Birthmarks are caused when blood vessels don’t form correctly or when the cells that produce pigment grow too much. Almost everybody has moles. By moles, I obviously don’t […]
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Why did some dinosaurs have such long necks? To reach the higher up vegetation, to get more low-lying vegetation, to expend less energy, and to lose heat. There are several different types of dinosaurs that evolved long necks. The most famous that we probably all know is the diplodocus. The diplodocus was undoubtedly large. It
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Are ants smart? They are not smart in the way that we are, but they have been observed using tools and performing tasks that would show they have some intelligence. The size of an animal’s brain is not necessarily an indicator of how smart it is. If we just look at the largest brain, it
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Why do people pass out from pain? Sudden pain can make the heart rate decrease, which lowers blood pressure, which can cause people to pass out. Fainting is technically known as syncope. Syncope can also mean when a word is contracted by not pronouncing the middle letters, such as favorite (we don’t say the o),
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What is the difference between slugs and snails? There are several differences but a big one is that snails have a coiled shell on their backs and slugs have a soft shell underneath their flesh. Snails and slugs have a lot more similarities than they have differences. Let’s look at the similarities first. Both snails
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What causes a stroke? There are different types of strokes, but the most common is an ischemic stroke and it is caused by a blockage in one of the blood vessels in the brain. The brain has a huge oxygen requirement. It is only 2% of your bodyweight, but it uses 15 to 20% of
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Too busy to read? Watch on YouTube Why do ducks float? They float because of their center of gravity, their hollow bones, the air in their feathers and air sacs, and the oil on their feathers. Whether or not something floats has to do with the object’s density and the buoyancy of water. Water has
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Too busy to read? Watch on YouTube Are ants and termites the same thing? No. They belong to different insect orders. Termites are from the Isoptera order and ants are from the Hymenoptera order. Termites and ants are easily confused and they have a lot of similarities, but they have a lot of differences as
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Watch on YouTube How do facial expressions work? There are 20 muscles in the face that can be moved in different combinations. There are two kinds of facial expressions: voluntary and involuntary. A lot of study has gone into reading facial expressions and there are many theories about whether they reveal inner thinking or not.
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Watch on YouTube Why does blood show up under UV light? Because it absorbs all of the light and appears completely black. When we watch crime movies, the police often use a black light to show stains at the murder scene. Well, a black light will make many bodily fluids glow, but it won’t make
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