For hundreds of years they watched birds flying and wished they could fly too. Birds fly with their wings and they can float on the air. So at first people made wings like birds. They tried to fly by jumping off high buildings. But they failed. And many people died in their flying....
In the 1480s, the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci designed many“ornithopters"—machines with wings that go up and down like a bird's.Two brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, made the world's first hot-air balloon. They did this by making a fire under a silk bag so it filled ...
It wasn’t a surprise. Researchers had watched mountain lions approach Highway 101, intending to cross from the Santa Monica Mountains to more habitat in the Santa Susana Stountains to the north, only to stop and turnaround, scared off by the noise of the road. ...
Worker ants can have different jobs within the colony: some are tunnel-diggers (picture an ant farm), some are nannies to the queen’s offspring, and others are in charge of scouting out food and bringing it back to the colony. And while only a small percentage of the colony may ...
dragon: destruction and evil, violent, terrorist symbol in English, it not only devour humans and animals, but also bring a flood, fire, endangering the survival of mankind, the image of the dragon often with a pair of big wings, to fire-breathing, synonymous with evil, so English a lot...
If global temperatures keep rising, adapting to climate change will become increasingly difficult, especially for poorer countries. A small island, for example, may become uninhabitable due to sea level rise and lack of sufficient freshwater. In that case, inhabitants may have no other option than...
There are countless stories of man’s best friend stepping in to___humans. And that’s exactly what happened between a dog named Macho and a teenage boy, Griffin. Single mom Nicole Evans was out of town when a fire___inside the home. Her teenage son, Griffin, was in his room sleepin...
After studying micro-CT scans of the ants, the researchers speculated that the damage to blood-pumping muscles in the femur causes blood circulation to slow. This would mean that bacteria-laden blood would take longer to enter the body, allowing the ants enough time to amput...
aLately social scientists have begun to ask if culture is found just in humans, or if some animals have culture too. When we speak of culture, we mean a way of life a group of people have in common. Culture includes the beliefs and attitudes we learn. It is the patterns of behaviour...
Ship of Emotion and Song (Flight / Emotions / Ship of Regret and Sleep) 7:51 Take Flight (Wings) 1:58 The Last Fatima (Aveh, the Ancient Dance) 4:21 Echoes (Shevat, the Wind Is Calling) 5:34 My Child (In a Dark Sleep...) 2:53 The Treasure That Must Be Seduced (The Treasur...