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Global coffee drinkers leave behind roughly 18 million tonnes of wet grounds every year, and a Korean lab has now blasted them with 900°C plasma flames that pop the water into steam so violently the grounds turn to anthracite-grade fuel in 90 seconds.
A South Korean research team has shown that wet coffee grounds can be turned into…
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KidsMake Learning Fun
The human ear can register sound waves down to vibrations of the air itself, then handle noises roughly a trillion times more powerful without shutting down.
The faintest sound a young, healthy ear can detect moves the eardrum by less than…
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KidsParent Resources
Preschoolers solve mental rotation puzzles using the same holistic strategy as adults, FIU eye-tracking research found
Three-year-olds tackling a mental rotation puzzle — choosing which of two small fire trucks matches…
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Education ResourcesKids
Fleming came back from the First World War focused on the problem of infection, and he spent the next decade studying the body’s antibacterial defences before noticing a mould-clear halo in September 1928
The familiar classroom version of penicillin begins with one lucky accident: Alexander Fleming returns from…
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Every patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria, and NASA now warns those microbes vent from spacesuits and could survive in the shaded craters near the Moon’s South Pole for days after the astronauts leave
A patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million…
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KidsParent Resources
In 2018, cockatoos in the suburbs of Sydney began flipping open household wheelie bins by wedging their beaks under the lid and walking sideways along the rim, and the technique spread bird-to-bird across 44 suburbs in two years, mapped by University of Sydney researchers
In the summer of 2018, in three quiet suburbs on the southern edge of Sydney,…
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KidsLifestyle
The truest signs your partner has a heart of gold are quieter than grand gestures: research points to two, whether they genuinely appreciate you rather than take you for granted, and whether they give based on your needs without keeping a running score
A heart of gold is one of those phrases we feel more easily than we…
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Drawing IdeasKids
In 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped a mixture of rubber and sulfur onto a hot stove and discovered vulcanisation — the same cross-linking that now makes the rubber erasers on a child’s pencil firm enough to lift graphite without smearing it into the paper.
In January 1839, in a small workshop in Woburn, Massachusetts, Charles Goodyear dropped a lump…
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KidsParent Resources
In a 2006 study, 18-month-old toddlers helped a stranger who needed assistance across most of ten tasks without being asked or rewarded, but a 2008 follow-up found material rewards for helping later reduced how often toddlers helped
People are often described as deeply selfish as if it were a fixed trait, something…
