BBC Knowledge Asia Edition 3
OUR FUTURE ON MERCURY WORDS: STEPHEN BAXTER ILLUSTRATOR: MAGIC TORCH On 9 May 2016, Mercury will pass between the Sun and Earth ...
You might think it will forever be impossible to live on Mercur y. But nature, uncharacteristically, may have given future explo ...
An artist’s impression of our arrival at Mercury. In reality, the chosen location would be in constant darkness the impacts of c ...
DISTANCE FROM SUN 152,100,000km (at furthest point) MASS 5.97 x 1024kg RADIUS 6,378km DENSIT Y 5,514kg/m3 GRAVIT Y 9.8m/s2 YEAR ...
It might seem odd, but Mercury may be a good site to m ine. If we move off the Earth, a growing interplanetary civilisation is g ...
In his 1984 novel The Flight Of The Dragonf ly, physicist and science- fiction writer Robert Forward suggested a solar-sail star ...
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ASSAM IS BEST KNOWN FOR TEA, BUT ITS SUBTROPICAL FORESTS ALSO OFFER REFUGE TO RARE HOOLOCK GIBBONS. ALI WOOD MEETS THE LOCAL PEO ...
Though they are of similar size (about 5.5kg), male and female western hoolock gibbons have very different coloration – males su ...
NATURE OUR GIBBONS “You first hear a baby hoolock gibbon sing with its family when it is four or five years old. When it is seve ...
lips and beckons us in the direction of the calls. Five minutes later we spot them – a black male and tan female. They perch a c ...
Conservationists are working hard to protect the gibbons that live in Barekuri, such as this male. The local population stood at ...
ABOVE LEFT: This bridge at Hollongapar has been built to enable gibbons to cross railway tracks, uniting fragmented populations ...
ALI WOOD IS A FREELANCE JOURNALIST: WWW.ALI-WOOD.COM. SHE TRAVELLED TO ASSAM WITH INDIA TOURISM AND ASSAM TOURISM. NATURE India ...
DO MICE REALLY LOVE CHEESE? DOES SUGAR MAKE KIDS HYPERACTIVE? DO YOU ACTUALLY NEED YOUR FIVE-A- DAY? WE PUT 29 COMMON BELIEFS UN ...
Local honey cures hay fever Tablets containing pollen are somewhat effective at combating hay fever. Since some honey contains p ...
HOUSEFLIES ONLY LIVE FOR 24 HOURS It may seem unfortunate that the annoying housefly lives for more than a day. They can actuall ...
A significant problem with the idea that we have five senses is that there is no uncontroversial definition for what constitutes ...
Adults can’t generate new brain cells Several areas of the adult brain contain the neural stem cells required for the growth of ...
GINGER-HAIRED PEOPLE ARE GOING EXTINCT Although this myth might serve a noble purpose, there is no ‘urine indicator’ that could ...
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