BBC Knowledge April 2017

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Welcome to the Jungle Leopards in the bustling city of Mumbai, India; hyenas running through the streets of Harar, Ethiopia; and ...

Let our panel of experts sprinkle their answer-dust over your questions 19 Discoveries & Innovations Dispatches from the cut ...

I’ve never seen a tiger in the wild. No, really. I’ve seen sloth bears dancing with butterflies in Bandipur, one-horned rhinos t ...

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ARE GRADES IMPORTANT? NEW! Panel of Principals is a knowledge circle that taps into the collective wisdom of educators and acade ...

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Dr Alastair Gunn Astronomer, astrophysicist Alexandra Cheung Environment/ climate expert Dr Peter J Bent ...

Surprisingly, the answer is ‘yes’. Research at Binghamton University in the US found that every person has a unique pattern of b ...

Just two. The most common, wet earwax, evolved as a way to remove dead skin cells from your ear canal. Earwax is 60 per cent ski ...

People with damage to the brain’s parietal lobe, which integrates sensory information, don’t dream. One hypothesis suggests that ...

HIGHEST FLYING BIRDS Rüppell’s griffon vulture Altitude: 11,300m Distribution: Sahel region, Africa Lammergeier Altitude: 7,300m ...

There is no reason you can’t 3D print a musical instrument. Cheap violins have been made out of plastic for years, and 3D printi ...

Typically when we’re reading, we do it in a comfortable position – sitting or lying down – in a quiet place, and often at the en ...

As our planet bulges at the equator, its gravitational pull there is lower than in the UK. Better still, the effect of the spin ...

How do we predict meteor shower intensity? Most ‘predictions’ of the rate of meteors per hour during meteor showers are based on ...

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Beneath us all is a seething cauldron of rock, wrapped round an iron-nickel core at temperatures similar to the surface of the S ...

AMPED UP TO THE MAX PREPARE YOURSELF FOR TOMORROW One of the biggest crowd-pullers at CES (the biggest new tech showcase of the ...

Nissan and NASA clear roadblocks to a driverless future Nissan plans to get autonomous cars driving on our city streets by 2020, ...