Science Facts. Female sharks have thicker skin that males, it is because males have the odd behavior of biting females while mating. Pregnant women will have 50% more blood in the 20 th week than they did before they conceived. Brain cells react in just 6 seconds to alcohol.

Human Facts The human brain is over three times as big as the brain of other mammals that are of similar body size. Your brain has around 100 billion nerve cells. Your brain is more powerful, more complex and more clever than any computer ever built.

The wealthiest scientist in the world to date was John Watson. He amassed a fortune of approximately $15.8 billion. Experts at NASA believe there are between 100 and 400 billion stars in our Milky Way, which is a far smaller number than... You have enough DNA in your body to, if fully unravelled, ...

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Here Are 60 Amazing Science Facts For Kids That You Simply Shouldn’t Miss Interesting Scientific Facts About Space: The Sun is more than 3,00,000 (3 Lakh) times larger than the size of the Earth, which means 1 million Earths could fit inside the sun. Space is absolutely silent as there’s no atmosphere for sound to travel through!

100 INTERESTING SCIENCE FACTS. 1. The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second). 2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth. 3.

White light is made up of lots of colors. In fact, all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. When white light falls on an object some of it is reflected just like the way a ball bounces off a wall. Other colors in the light are absorbed or taken in by the object and not let back out. So a red object for instance absorbs all colors except red which is reflected.