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A Moment of Science

Are you a tick magnet?

Dodany: 26 stycznia 2024

We all know someone who goes for a walk in the woods, and comes back with many ticks crawling on them.

What are contrails?

Dodany: 25 stycznia 2024

Why do airplanes sometimes leave contrails behind, and what are they exactly?

How does carbon dioxide impact our ability to think?

Dodany: 24 stycznia 2024

At high levels, carbon dioxide can affect the brain to cause impaired thinking.

Dinosaurs may have had malaria

Dodany: 23 stycznia 2024

Scientists discovered a type of malaria in a twenty-million-year-old mosquito fossil from the Dominican Republic preserved in amber.

Murphy's breakfast never goes to plan

Dodany: 22 stycznia 2024

If you're eating toast, and you accidentally bump it to the floor, it seems more likely to land buttered side down.

Bacteria feel full, too

Dodany: 19 stycznia 2024 - Średnia ocen: 4

We've been hearing a lot about the importance of gut bacteria. Now it seems that bacteria also have a say in how and when we eat.

How the motor cortex treats words

Dodany: 18 stycznia 2024

The instant you decide to move your foot, the part of your brain's motor cortex responsible for sending commands to the foot goes into action. So what does this mean?

What a steel!

Dodany: 17 stycznia 2024

Have you ever prepared a meal that required lots of garlic and found that after all of that chopping your hands reek of garlic for the rest of the night?

Cafeteria plate dispensers reveal facts about atoms

Dodany: 16 stycznia 2024

You take a plate off the top of one stack. The other plates in the stack rise from below just far enough to present the next plate at the same height as the one you just took!

Is it ok to swallow watermelon seeds?

Dodany: 15 stycznia 2024

A few seeds from fruits such as watermelons or apples passing through your digestive tract won't hurt you. But they won't help you much either.

What exactly was Little Miss Muffet eating?

Dodany: 12 stycznia 2024

Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. But what even is that?

Vampire bats are good at sharing

Dodany: 11 stycznia 2024

It may surprise you to learn that vampire bats are one of the most well-known examples of sharing in the animal kingdom.

Testing your reaction time

Dodany: 10 stycznia 2024

How fast are your reflexes? Test them out with a falling dollar.

Why don't elephants get cancer?

Dodany: 9 stycznia 2024

Since elephants are so big, they have way more cells than most animals. Which means more opportunities for elephant cells to go crazy and become cancerous. So why don't they get cancer?

What events actually make us happy?

Dodany: 8 stycznia 2024

Major events often make people happy, but does this last very long?

Desert ants navigate with the magnetic field

Dodany: 5 stycznia 2024

When ants first leave their nest to begin their jobs as foragers, they first have to make sure they can find their way home.

Life thrives in the seabed of hydrothermal vents

Dodany: 4 stycznia 2024

From stories of giant monsters to little green Martians, we humans can imagine some pretty strange creatures. Life, however, offers plenty of surprises here on Earth.

Moths are evolving to avoid city lights

Dodany: 3 stycznia 2024

Moths are a lot less attracted to artificial light than they used to be. Learn more about what that means with today's A Moment of Science!

Recognizing different relatives

Dodany: 2 stycznia 2024

Other animals besides humans learn to recognize their relatives

Jellyfish thrive in cold water, too

Dodany: 1 stycznia 2024

Jellyfish, delicate and soft as they may be, thrive even in places you might not go swimming—including the Arctic.