Topics from May 2016
- How do spiders manage without getting caught in their own web?
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- Can snakes hear? How do they respond to charmers’ mahudi?
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- Why do we get a bulge on the skin after a mosquito bite?
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- When killed, some mosquitoes bleed and some do not. Why?
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- How do the large marine mammals manage to sleep without drowning?
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- How does a firefly emit light?
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- Why do we blink our eyes?
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- With its small body mass, how does a monarch butterfly obtain enough energy to migrate 1,800 miles?
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- Why do snakes move in a zigzag manner?
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- Why does the light of firefly twinkle while that of glow-worm remains constant?
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- How do ants go in a line?
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- How do ants manage to float on water?
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- Ants do not get hurt when they fall. Why?
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- How do ants find their way to hidden sweets?
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- Why do birds never fall off their perches when sleeping? Do they, in fact, sleep?
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- Why do the eyes of some animals glow in the dark?
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- How do honey bees find their way back to their hives?
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- Why do runners run in anti-clockwise direction?
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- What is the difference between hair and fur?
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- Why are some insects attracted towards light?
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- How do insects enter and live inside mangoes?
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- Eagles do not flap their wings often, yet fly for long. How?
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- Why do our arms move to and fro when we walk?
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- How do birds navigate home after long journeys?
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- It is true that a red flag agitates a bull?
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- How do trees reduce air pollution?
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- Why do drops of lemon create white spots on the floor?
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- Why does the lotus leaf not get wet?
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- Could you ever see an eclipse of the Moon in daylight?
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- With what materials are Saturn's rings made of?
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- Why does the Moon look silvery at night?
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- Why do we always see only one side of the Moon?
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- Why do the Sun and Moon appear many times larger at the horizon?
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- Why should not the solar eclipse be viewed with naked eye?
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- How fast is the Earth moving through space?
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- If eclipses occur when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth lie on a straight line, why do they not occur on every new moon and full moon day?
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- What is a blue Moon?
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- Why only stars blink and not planets?
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- Why is it that the earliest sunrise and latest sunset do not coincide with the longest day of the year?
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- Does the Sun rotate?
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- Why are the orbits of the Sun’s planets arranged in a more-or-less flat plane?
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