BBC Knowledge June 2017

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What if you were the last person alive? Movie makers and authors continue to spend a lot of time and money on imagining a world ...

The viruses that made us human HIV, flu, and chicken pox. Viruses are horrible, right? Not necessarily — in fact, many may have ...

Regulars 10 Q & A Let our panel of experts sprinkle their answer-dust over your questions 20 Discoveries & Innovations D ...

SUBSCRIPTIONS General Manager Product Strategy Priyadarshi Banerjee [email protected] Assistant General Manager (RMD M ...

letters | FROM OUR READERS LETTERS Like you, dear Editor, I, too, have never seen a tiger in the wild, though I have undertaken ...

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DO WE NEED HOLIDAY HOMEWORK? Panel of Principals is a knowledge circle that taps into the collective wisdom of educators and aca ...

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10 | & ANSWERS QUESTIONS Fire retardant is dropped near Clearlake, California, during the wildfires of August 2015 12 June 2 ...

The US Forest Service has commercial contracts for a fleet of 300 helicopters and more than 50 fixed-wing aeroplanes, which dump ...

PHOTOS: GETTY X2, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Most fish have an immune system similar to other animals with backbones. They produce an ...

PHOTOS: GETTY ILLUSTRATIONS: RAJA LOCKEY WATER You can only survive three days without water. Scavenge the beach for containers ...

Why is the Moon colourless? Despite appearances, the Moon is not entirely devoid of colour. Apollo astronauts described its colo ...

PHOTOS: GETTY X How do squid survive the extreme pressures of deep water? A big challenge facing squid in the deep sea is keepin ...

PHOTOS: GETTY X TOP 10 Seagrass colony (Posidonia oceanica) 100,000 years old Balearic Islands, Spain 2. ‘Pando’ Quaking aspen ...

‘Old Tjikko’ Norway spruce 9,550 years old Fulufjället Mountains, Sweden 7. ‘Old Rasmus’ Norway spruce 9,500 years old Härjedal ...

PHOTOS: GETTY X4, REUTERS Are fireworks bad for the environment? Fireworks propel a cocktail of chemicals into the atmosphere, m ...

WHAT IS THIS? WHAT A GEM! This is an enormous cut topaz that weighs around 2kg. With a length of 15cm and a width of 10.5cm, it’ ...

The system of planets found orbiting nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST- may be our best chance yet of finding alien life PHOTO: NASA SE ...