14 results for “trap”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Carnivorous Plants

   traps The simplest trap is a pit. Pitcher plants grow leaves rolled into tall cups part

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2. Planets & the Solar System

   Mercury and Venus

   traps the Sun's heat so efficiently that the surface sits at about 465 degrees everywhere

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3. Planet Earth

   Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

   trapped inside them. Pick up a stone. It feels like the most permanent thing imaginable, but it is a traveller

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4. Planet Earth

   The Oceans

   trapped by greenhouse gases over the past fifty years. That has spared the land some warming

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5. The Human Body

   The Immune System

   traps particles and tiny hairs that sweep them out. The gut is crowded with friendly bacteria

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6. Matter, Energy & Physics

   The Quantum World

   trapped on the other side. Entanglement Two particles that interact can become entangled, so that measuring

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7. The Human Body

   The Skeleton and Bones

   trapped in the hardened matrix, sense strain and direct the other two. This constant demolition and rebuilding

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8. Planet Earth

   Weather and Climate

   trap the heat radiating back out, the greenhouse effect that keeps Earth about 33 degrees warmer

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9. The Human Body

   Lungs and Breathing

   traps dust and microbes. It passes down the throat and into the windpipe, a tube held

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10. Animals

    Birds

    traps heat so well that birds thrive in cold no bare-skinned animal could survive. Feathers

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11. Plants & Fungi

    Flowers and Pollination

    trap their pollinators overnight and release them in the morning, dusted. Some partnerships have become so close

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12. Animals

    Whales and Dolphins

    trapping the food. A blue whale can take in 80 tonnes of water in one gulp

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13. Planets & the Solar System

    Jupiter

    traps charged particles into radiation belts fierce enough to destroy unprotected electronics in hours, which is why spacecraft

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14. Space & the Universe

    Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars

    Thirty years ago we knew of no planets beyond our solar system. Now we have found

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