10 results for “touch”

1. The Human Body

   The Senses

   touch are the body's instruments for turning light, vibration and chemistry into experience. There are more

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Carnivorous Plants

   touch does nothing; the plant waits. A second touch within about twenty seconds, which rules out a falling

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3. The Human Body

   Skin, Hair and Nails

   touch, controls your temperature and makes vitamin D. Hair and nails grow from it. Your skin

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4. Animals

   The Octopus

   touch for hours. The brain sets goals; the arms work out how to do them. In effect

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5. Space & the Universe

   Dark Matter and Dark Energy

   touch and cannot find anywhere inside. That is the situation astronomers have been in for decades

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6. Matter, Energy & Physics

   Atoms

   touch is made of atoms, and atoms are almost entirely empty space. Here is what they

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7. The Human Body

   The Brain

   touch and, just in front of it, movement; the sides handle hearing and language; the front

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8. Matter, Energy & Physics

   Energy and Heat

   touches a cold one and the fast molecules knock the slow ones into moving faster. Cool

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9. Space & the Universe

   Black Holes

   touch. It is simply the distance at which escape becomes impossible. For a black hole with

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10. Animals

    Mammals

    touch the bones of relatives. Rats laugh when tickled, in ultrasound. Dogs read human faces better

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