What is the Moon made of?
The Moon’s violent history has led to its rather colourful present Credit: Alex Dean/Getty Images Regardless of what Wallace and Gromit may have told their viewers, the Moon is not made of cheese. The...
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5 wildlife books to read this summer
1. Weird and Wonderful Nature Author: Ben Hoare Illustrator: Kaley McKean Publisher: Dorling Kindersley One way to describe the plants, animals and natural phenomena in this lovely hardback from DK would indeed be weird and wonderful. The...
Meet the lean, mean, green military machines
The British Army is using hybrid power to turbocharge its toughest trucks
The story of Earth: How it formed and why it’s unique
Our little blue planet in the Milky Way is truly one of a kind
5 fascinating facts about dinosaurs
Contrary to their portrayal in films, many dinosaurs were actually feathered like birds, with the Sinosauropteryx being the first to be un- earthed by palaeontologists
What would our world look like if it was just one super continent?
The world map has not always looked like it does today.
5 fascinating facts about the Earth’s axis and tides
Image by PIRO4D from Pixabay 1) Day and night During Earth’s year-long orbit round the Sun, it also rotates once a day round its axis, an imaginary line passing through the North and South Poles,...
