The “Pregnancy Glow” is Real.
More blood is brought to the blood vessels and there is an increase in oil gland secretion, therefore, “pregnancy glow” occurs.
2020
The problematic Hawthorne Effect.
a simple premise that human subjects in an experiment change their behavior simply because they are being studied
2020
There is a planet half the radius of the Earth with a surface made up of diamonds.
55 Cancri e has a mass eight times that of Earth’s despite having half the radius
2020
In Switzerland, applications for citizenship are decided at the municipal level.
Hence, if your neighbors find you annoying then they can vote to deny your citizenship
2017
Astronauts can’t burp in space.
The lack of gravity in space means the air in astronaut’s stomach doesn’t separate and rise up from ingested food.
2018
A large percentage of asteroids are pulled in by Jupiter’s gravity.
Many of the asteroids that are potentially harmful to Earth, the long period comets, tend to be sucked into Jupiter’s gravity field
2016
The International Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space.
The (ISS) sits roughly 250 miles (400 km) above the Earth and is the third-brightest object in the night sky.
2020
The first ever black hole photographed is 3 million times the size of Earth.
The photo was released in April 2019 and shows a halo of dust and gas 310 million trillion miles from Earth.
2019
Astronauts can grow approximately 5 cm in height when in space.
The lack of gravity in space causes the discs between the vertebrae to expand a little.
2013
Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.
The Photons emitted from the Sun’s surface travel at the speed of light to reach our eyes in only 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
2013
The statue of Nemesis (goddess who punishes the arrogant) in Marathon, Greece.
Was carved from marble the Persians had brought to the battle with the intention of carving a monument to their victory
2020
Red Dwarf stars that are low in mass can burn continually for up to 10 trillion years.
A Red Dwarf is a small and cool star in a later stage of its life
2020
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.
This is because Pluto does not gravitationally dominate the neighborhood around its orbit
2019
We know more about Mars and our Moon than we do about our oceans.
We have fully mapped 100% of the surface of Mars and Earth’s Moon, whereas we have only been able to map roughly 5% of the ocean floor.
2009
The Sun makes a full rotation once every 25 – 35 days.
one full rotation equals one full day. However, our gargantuan sun takes 25 – 35 Earth days to make one full rotation!
2020
Memory can be easily distorted.
The car crash experimenters found that the use of different verbs affected the participants’ memories of an accident
2014
