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Black Hole

This week astronomers, using gravity wave detectors, announced that they have detected a ‘warp’ in space-time. This warp is a long way from us – 3 billion light years to be exact! So, what created such...

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Fluffy Tyrannosaurus?

You probably know already that birds are descended from dinosaurs. It’s been well documented that dinosaurs, rather than being run-of-the-mill reptiles, were quite different to lizards or crocodiles....

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Academic Advice

Professor Stephen Hawking is a world-renowned physicist. He has brought us theories on black holes and refining quantum theory and relativity. He’s also written many books explaining physics to the...

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What On Earth Are We Doing?

Last week I wrote about Professor Stephen Hawking and his belief that humanity’s future lies in colonising other worlds. Well, the professor is back in the news. In an interview celebrating his 75th...

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Early Lark or Late-Night Owl?

We love our sleep here at Education Quizzes. What time do you go to bed? Are you an early-rising lark or a late night-loving owl? Well, new research published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal...

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Beam Me Up!

Have you ever watched an episode of Star Trek? If you have then you’ll be familiar with the famous line, ‘Beam me up Scotty’. You see, the crew of the starship Enterprise never landed their craft on an...

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Deep Breaths

Recently I wrote about the evolution of plants and how, through photosynthesis, they filled the atmosphere with oxygen. Now, this allowed animals to evolve because, as we all know, animals need oxygen...

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Drunk to the Gills

Fish, as you know if you read this article, breathe by taking in oxygen dissolved in water. Now, the two main ways that oxygen gets into the water are by diffusion from the air or by water turbulence....

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Anxious Elephants

We all feel stressed from time to time. Exams, work, money – they can all cause us worry. These seem bad enough to us but wild animals have more important concerns, like finding enough to eat or drink!...

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Frankenstein’s Dinosaur

Dinosaurs, it has long been believed, come in two main types: Saurischians (lizard-hipped) and Ornithischians (bird-hipped). Ornithischians are a diverse group – some walk on two legs, some on four,...

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Digging the Dodo

There are more extinct animals than there are species alive today – a lot more. 99% of all species that have ever existed on Earth are no more. Mass extinctions are thankfully very rare. Over the...

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Fish Lizard

In the 1600s some fossilised bones were discovered which were mistakenly thought to have come from a fish. At the time most scientists believed the Bible’s account of how life began. Few thought that...

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Asteroid Impact

Two days ago a very large asteroid came close to the Earth. It was more than two miles across and could have caused a colossal amount of damage if it had hit our planet. Thankfully the asteroid was...

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Saturn – the Real Lord of the Rings

Last Friday one of the most ambitious explorations ever undertaken came to an end. The Cassini probe was launched in 1997. It then spent 6 years travelling to Saturn and a further 13 years orbiting the...

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The Listening Owl

As we get older our senses fade. It’s a fact of life – our eyesight dims and we have to wear glasses, and our hearing gets worse too. By the time we’re in our 60s most of us can no longer hear very...

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Virtually Vegetarian

If you know your dinosaurs you’ll know that there were two different types – the meat eaters, like Tyrannosaurus rex or allosaurus, and the vegetarians, like brontosaurus, triceratops or stegosaurus....

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