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THE AMAZING HUMAN BODY 2 Apr 2013 | 03:24 pm
A Marvelous Machine A skeleton holds the body together. The 650 different muscles covering the skeleton give the body its shape. Babies have 305 bones at birth Adults have about 206 bones because as p...
First Farmers 2 Apr 2013 | 01:34 pm
By this time people had begun to live in villages. They had learned to produce their food by growing seeds from wild plants such as wheat and barley. The made bread. Animals such as dogs, sheep, goats...
PEOPLE 2 Apr 2013 | 12:32 pm
Man has existed on Earth for a tiny fraction of time since the Earth was ‘bom’. If we were to imagine that life on Earth had existed for only one day, then man’s stay on Earth would occupy only a few ...
The Moon 20 Mar 2013 | 11:53 am
The Moon is a natural satellite orbiting the Earth about 384,000 km (239,000 miles) away. It is much smaller and lighter than the Earth and takes 29 days to move round the Earth. The Moon has no light...
The Outer Planets 20 Mar 2013 | 11:22 am
Jupiter – The Giant Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System – so large that all the other planets could fit inside it. Jupiter has a small rocky centre surrounded by a swirling mass of liqui...
The Sun’s Planets 19 Mar 2013 | 10:53 am
Four Rocky Inner Planets 1. Mercury Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun and also the hottest with a daytime temperature more than 7 times hotter than any place on earth. At night, the temperatur...
Snowballs in the Sky 18 Mar 2013 | 05:22 pm
When we see a comet it looks like a bright dot with a long shiny tail. Scientists believe that comets are balls of frozen water and gas, mixed with dust particles and rock. There are said to be 100,00...
Into a ‘Black Hole’ 18 Mar 2013 | 05:14 pm
The force of gravity pulling into the neutron star is so great that not even light rays can escape. Because the light cannot leave the star we are not able to see it; the star has become a ‘black hole...
Star Sizes 18 Mar 2013 | 05:10 pm
Many stars in the Universe are bigger than our Sun. They are known as blue giants. The biggest star is thought to be 1, 000 million km (621 million miles) in diameter, over 700 times bigger than our S...
Star Constellations 18 Mar 2013 | 04:08 pm
The word ‘constellation’ comes from the Latin word ‘stella’ which means star. A constellation is a group of stars that seem to be joined up to make the outline shape of an animal, object or person. Al...
