An English scientist Isaac Newton born in 1642 made the next significant discovery. Newton introduced the theories of gravity and mass, and explained how they are responsible for an apple’s falling to the ground, for the motion of the moon around the earth and for the motion of the planets around the sun.

All crocodiles are meat eaters and feed in water. They are particularly successful in catching smaller animals because they can float up very close to their prey without being seen. They catch animals at water holes in this way and, holding them under water, they back off into deeper water until the prey drowns. Crocodiles tear pieces from their victims …

You might think that winter is cold enough, until you compare it with absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature. Absolute zero is -273ºC or -460ºF. Nothing can get colder than this temperature. The reason is that everything has to lose heat energy to get colder. At absolute zero, an object has no heat energy left, so it can’t get any …

If you live in the northern hemisphere, you can always find north at night, because there is a star very near to the north pole of the sky. This star is called Polaris, and during the night all other stars appear to circle around it as the Earth turns. To find Polaris, first locate the familiar saucepan shape of seven …

Huge amounts of polluting gases are being released into the earth’s atmosphere by the large scale burning of fossil fuels or natural fuels found under the earth. These gases are the main culprits behind the phenomenon of global warming and other climatic changes. In order to find cleaner fuels, scientists around the world are trying to find a fuel or …

If other beings existed in space, we could talk to them via radio waves, which travel at the same speed as light. Astronomers have begun t listen for possible incoming radio messages from the stars, although nothing has been heard so far. In 1974 the first deliberate radio message from Earth was beamed towards as star cluster called M13 in …

You may not know it, buy your body is giving off heat rays. So is everything else around you. The strength of these rays, which are also known as infrared rays, depends on how warm or cold things are. Special cameras and instruments can pick up these heat rays and turn them into pictures. In this way, it is possible …

The surfaces of valley glaciers are littered with rocks which have tumbled down the mountainsides. Other rocks are frozen into the sides and bottoms of glaciers. These rocks turn the glaciers into gigantic files, because, as the glaciers move, the rocks scrape away at the land and gouge our more and more rocks. When the ice melts, steep sided, U-shaped …

Diamonds are measured in Carats (not carrot). A carat weighs 0.2 grams. The largest fine quality, colorless diamond ever found was called “The Cullinan”. It was mined in South Africa and weighed 3,106 carats. It was cut into 106 jewels and produced the finest, largest gemstone ever, weighing 530.2 carats.

When American astronaut Alan Shepard couldn’t hold his pee any longer on their space mission in 1961, he was directed to do it in his suit, a new book has revealed. According to Tom Wolfe’s book ‘The Right Stuff,’ that’s what mission control said to Shepard during Mercury-Redstone 3, when the astronaut said he needed to urinate. Shepard did as …