When you read the title “Moving Plants”, you may ask yourself “Do plants move?” Guess what? They do.
Being our nearest neighbor, the Moon has always found its way into the realms of human curiosity; its desolate beauty has been the source of fascination, inspiring a rich cultural and symbolic tradition.
From ancient civilizations to modern day, the colors and symbols of the four elements have represented the different aspects of nature and the forces of energy in our world.
Colors are a non-verbal form of communication through which people can express a certain attitude, behavior, position or even a message.
We owe some of our most spectacular atmospheric phenomena to various types of scatterings: blue skies, colorful sunsets, and white clouds, among others.
Blue, green, or transparent, what is the real color of water? When you look at a glass of water, you see it is colorless; why is it then that when you stand by a lake, sea, or ocean, the water is blue?
“My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the Sky,” is how the English poet, William Wordsworth, described the effect of watching a rainbow on his mood in his poem My Heart Leaps Up.
Nowadays, everyone around the world is familiar with the dangers of climate change as one of the most visible environmental concerns, where temperature is rising, polar glaciers are melting, and sea levels are rising.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs. It is the second biggest killer, globally; in 2015, 1.8 million people died of TB and an estimate of 10.4 million new cases was registered.
Legend has it that it was Prometheus, one of the Titans in Greek mythology, who gave fire as a gift to Mankind; he was punished severely by the gods for giving humanity a precious and useful tool.
Ocean circulation is the vast water motion inside ocean basins; the Sun, wind, Earth’s rotation, tides, and water density discrepancies affect those currents.
One of the well known facts is that oxygen is one of the most essential requirements of life; without it, organisms on Earth would not survive.
In geology, faults do not mean mistakes; faults are cracks in the Earth’s crust, but not all cracks are considered faults.
If you are bored and would like to take a journey with your kids into an amazing fantasy world, I would advise you to watch The Croods.