Saturday Science Snippets #3

Saturday Science Snippets #3

Ants farm tropical fruits Humans invented agriculture around 10,000 years ago and were probably quite proud of themselves. But for Philidris nagasau, an ant found only in Fiji, agriculture was old news – they’ve been growing their own fruit...

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Why is the sea salty?

Why is the sea salty?

There is salt everywhere: in the soil, in rocks, in living things. Rivers carry this salt into the seas and it gets stuck there because there’s nowhere else for it to go. Some of the water in the seas gets taken out when the heat of the Sun...

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Saturday Science Snippets #2

Nasa has a poo problem… NASA have a problem and they are looking for help. Space science has achieved a lot and solved many of the problems of getting people and machines into space. But one problem still has a very primitive ¬†solution...

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