17 results for “ant”
Animals
Insects
ants farm fungus on chewed leaves; weaver ants sew nests from living leaves using silk squeezed
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Matter, Energy & Physics
The Quantum World
At the scale of atoms the universe stops behaving sensibly. Particles are waves, things exist in
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Plants & Fungi
Carnivorous Plants
In soils too poor to live on, some plants turned the tables and began eating animals
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Plants & Fungi
Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light
Every leaf is a solar panel that turns sunlight, water and air into sugar and oxygen
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Life & Biology
Ecosystems and Food Webs
ant species than the whole of Britain. Coral reefs are the marine equivalent. Diverse ecosystems tend
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Plants & Fungi
Seeds
ants carry seeds home for the oily parcels attached to them and discard the seed itself
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
The two ice giants at the edge of the planetary system are cold, blue, strange and
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Life & Biology
Bacteria and Viruses
The smallest living things outnumber everything else combined and run the planet's chemistry. Most are
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Space & the Universe
The Life of a Star
Stars are born in cold clouds, burn for millions or billions of years, and die as
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The Human Body
The Immune System
An army of trillions of cells defends you against invaders you never notice, learns from every
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
The largest planet is a world of storms bigger than Earth, a magnetic field that could
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
The ringed planet is the jewel of the solar system, and its moons include a world
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
Earth's only natural satellite was born in a cataclysm, steadies our seasons, drives the tides
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Space & the Universe
Nebulae
The glowing clouds of gas and dust between the stars are both nurseries and graveyards. Here
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Chemistry
Chemical Reactions
Burning, rusting, cooking and digesting are all chemical reactions: atoms swapping partners to make new substances
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
Beneath your feet lie 6,370 kilometres of rock and metal, hotter than the surface of
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Animals
Mammals
Fur, milk and warm blood unite a group that ranges from a 2-gram bat to
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