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If a venomous snake is bitten by another venomous snake of the same species, (for example during a fight or mating), then it will not be affected. However, if a snake is bitten by a venomous snake of another species, it probably will be affected. This is probably because snakes have evolved to be ...

When you press the flush button, your wee, poo, toilet paper and water go down a pipe called a sewer. The toilet flushes the wastes down the sewer pipe. The sewer pipe from your house also collects and removes other wastes. This might be soapy water from baths and showers, or water left over from wa...

Renewable energy is driving profound changes in cities. It’s happening much more quickly than was expected even five years ago. Responding to climate change, networks of decision-makers, such as the C40 collective of major cities, have begun adopting strategies to promote the uptake of renewable e...

The planets closer to the Sun than the Earth are indeed hotter than the Earth is. But that still doesn’t make them hot enough to melt the rocks that they are made from! Mercury is the small, rocky planet nearest the Sun. The side that faces the Sun has a temperature of around 430℃. Remembering ...

If you look inside your parents’ wallets, you’ll see some brightly coloured plastic sheets and some little plastic cards. These plastic notes and cards are “money”, which your parents use to buy food, clothes, and beautiful toys. When I was a child, I used to read The Adventures of Pinocchi...

This is something that parents get asked every day. And it’s a great question, Oliver! Some people think the sky is blue because of sunlight reflected off the ocean and back into the sky. But the sky is blue even in the middle of the countryside, nowhere near the sea! Others think it’s because...

Viewed from afar, the Milky Way might appear similar to the galaxy known as NGC 7331. R. Jay GaBany/NASA Where are we within our galaxy? How did our galaxy form? How did it evolve over the aeons? Astronomers have been asking these questions for the past century, and have recently begun discerni...

Stars are immense, but the space between them is truly phenomenal. chefranden Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, Th...

Space probably does go on forever, but the truth is we don’t know. Not yet anyway. That’s what makes this a great question, because science is all about finding answers to things we don’t know yet. So, what do we know about space? We know it’s big, really big. It’s big enough to contain t...