The glass octopus is a rarely-spotted organism found in tropical and subtropical seas around the world. This organism gets its name due to its transparent body which looks like glass. One can look straight through its body to see the nerves, the eyes, and the digestive tract. Scientists believe that the glass octopus gained its …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sv401Tbqoo It is known that a few bird species leave their homes and fly south for the winter. This movement of birds which occurs according to the seasons each year is known as migration. Why do birds fly south for the winter? There are a few reasons why birds migrate. Many bird species are …
Plants need products derived from nitrogen; however, they cannot use free nitrogen in the air. How do they solve this issue? One of the best events in nature is when two different organisms team up and look out for one another. This is referred to as symbiosis. Plants like peas team up with a soil …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lic3gCS_bKo Light is the fastest thing in the universe. Why not get light to piggyback data, and make the internet faster? This is where optical fibers out“shine” other methods. Imagine you are in a room, and it has open doors and windows. Now you stand at the center of one of the walls and throw …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDiHTK9nwYw Imagine how the world would have been without printers. There would be no newspapers. Books would not be available and acquiring documents would have been so much harder. But how do these devices work? For starters, printers make use of four colored inks only: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Different combinations of these inks …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlzCe5gDu0 Amoebae are organisms made up of only one cell. They are predatory and eat other, smaller microbes. The liquid present within a cell is called the cytoplasm, and it can be categorized based on its texture. The cytoplasm towards the periphery of the cell is more rigid and is called ectoplasm (Greek: ektos; which …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7eQKSf0LmY Carnivorous plants can be thought of as mavericks of the plant kingdom. When faced with limited resources, these botanical marvels tend to bend the rules to come up with clever solutions! There are over 800 species of predatory plants all over the globe! Many carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, have evolved as …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A You may not be able to see them, but there are millions upon millions of tiny molecular machines in your body. While machines in the outside world are made of metals, the machines inside your body are made up of proteins. The molecular machines in cells help organisms perform a range of biological …
https://youtu.be/qzkxntU1UA0 Cockroaches, also known as roaches, are common household pests closely related to termites. While cockroaches have been indicators of uncleanliness throughout human history, most cockroach species are not “dirty pests” but live in various habitats. Only 30 cockroach species out of the 4,600 known species roam near human habitats. Cockroaches can tolerate various climatic …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T24yNNi8ZmA Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. It is a terrestrial planet, having a thin atmosphere and a crust composed of elements similar to Earth. Additionally, its core consists of iron and nickel. Mars is well-known for the features on its surface, such as impact craters, valleys, dunes, …
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