15 results for “rain”

1. Planet Earth

   Weather and Climate

   rains, it rains harder. Why it matters Weather decides the harvest, the flood, the water supply

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2. The Human Body

   The Brain

   A kilo and a half of soft tissue containing 86 billion neurons and more connections than

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3. Planet Earth

   The Oceans

   Rain falling on land dissolves tiny amounts of minerals from rock and carries them to the sea in rivers

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4. Planets & the Solar System

   Saturn

   raining down onto the planet. Saturn may have been ringless for most of its history and may be again

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5. Animals

   Animal Migration

   rain that greens one part of the Serengeti falls somewhere else six months later; the warm

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6. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   rain that would otherwise flood, and its leaves pump so much water into the air that

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7. Chemistry

   Chemical Reactions

   rain, and over months shiny steel turns into crumbly orange rust. Bake a cake, and runny

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8. Life & Biology

   Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions

   rain of molten rock that set forests burning across the globe. Worse came after. Dust and sulphur

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9. Planets & the Solar System

   Uranus and Neptune

   rain slowly down toward the centre. Methane in the upper atmosphere absorbs red light, which is why both

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10. The Human Body

    The Senses

    rain, is manufactured afterwards, in the brain. You do not see with your eyes. You see with

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11. Chemistry

    Acids and Bases

    rain, caused by pollution, has damaged forests and lakes. Today the oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide

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12. Plants & Fungi

    Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

    rain, and cover a third of the land surface, which is why they still outproduce every

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13. Matter, Energy & Physics

    Light

    Light is a wave, a particle and the fastest thing there is. Everything you see is

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14. Plants & Fungi

    Seeds

    A seed is a plant packed for travel: an embryo, a lunchbox and a coat, able

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15. The Human Body

    Sleep and Dreams

    We spend about a third of our lives asleep. Far from switching off, the brain uses

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