Tag: flipscience
FlipFact (August 21, 2019): Can chickens really undergo natural sex changes?
FlipFact of the Day: Spontaneous sex reversals in chickens are extremely rare, but they are possible. Scientists aren’t 100% sure why…
FlipFact (August 20, 2019): Why do babies have more bones than adults?
FlipFact of the Day: Normally, a human baby is born with around 300 bones, most of which are cartilage. There’s a…
What would happen to water in the vacuum of outer space?
FlipFact of the Day: It’s often said that space is extremely cold. (In reality, it’s the thin gas in space that’s…
Sea jellies: The incredible survivors of the sea
FlipFact of the Day: The earliest known major extinction event occurred 450 to 440 million years ago, wiping out approximately 60…
FlipFact (August 17, 2019): How big was the largest tadpole ever found?
FlipFact of the Day: In 2018, researchers in Arizona found a tadpole measuring twice as long as a soda can. Meet…
FlipFact (August 16, 2019): How long does it take a sloth to digest a meal?
FlipFact of the Day: No other mammal is known to digest food as slowly as a sloth does. In fact, it…
FlipFact (August 15, 2019): The nickel-eating plant discovered in the Philippines
FlipFact of the Day: Discovered in western Luzon by scientists from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, 𝑅𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑎 can…
FlipFact (August 14, 2019): The protein with a name that will take you 3.5 hours to pronounce
FlipFact of the Day: Titin, also known as connectin, is the largest known protein in the human body. Folded and spring-like,…
FlipFact (August 13, 2019): Yes, Uranus moves in a very strange way
FlipFact of the Day: With an axis of spin tilted by 98 degrees (relative to the Solar System’s plane), Uranus basically…
FlipFact (August 12, 2019): Are koalas’ fingerprints identical to ours?
FlipFact of the Day: A koala’s fingerprints are so identical to a human’s that even an expert using a microscope…
