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...
View ArticleFluffy 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....
View ArticleAcademic 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleEarly 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...
View ArticleBeam 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...
View ArticleDeep 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...
View ArticleDrunk 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....
View ArticleAnxious 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!...
View ArticleFrankenstein’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,...
View ArticleDigging 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...
View ArticleFish 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...
View ArticleAsteroid 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...
View ArticleSaturn – 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleVirtually 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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