Science & Mathematics Questions & Answers

Science & Mathematics Questions & Answers

Anyone for the shuttle?

When the first manned satellites went into space in the early 1960s, many people felt that the wildest dreams of science fiction writers were coming true. It was only about 50 years earlier that the first aeroplanes had flown. What amazing progress had been made in half a century! But in the next 20 years events moved still faster In …

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Amazing facts about animals

Amazing facts about animals — A captive, great brown bear of Alaska, a close relative of the fabled grizzly bear, weigh about 650 kilograms! The female Emperor penguin comes to the land, lays one egg on bare ice, then immediately returns to the ocean. The male keeps the egg warm for two months until it hatches, by rolling it onto …

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