Innehållsförteckning för October 2022 från What on Earth! Magazine

The Müseum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, features more than 1,300 ‘wet specimens’, meaning preserved parts of the human boday, such as hearts, brains, stomach organs and more A hospital-themed restaurant in Latvia served food shaped like body parts - including tongues, eyeballs and ears At a zombie-themed restaurant in Iowa, USA, diners can order burgers with spooky names - previous specials featured gory-iooking toppings such as pasta with tomato sauce, baked beans and ‘zombie sauce’ For fun, one chemist designed a recipe for a perfume intended to smell like rotting flesh. It’s meant to hide the wearer from zombies. The voodoo wasp lays its eggs inside the body of a caterpillar. When the larvae hatch, they take over the caterpillar's mind in order to force it to protect them, turning…

CELESTIAL BODIES Nine things that can happen to astronauts’ bodies in space. Going into space is amazing - a human experience that is truly out of this world. But space travel also has some strange and interesting effects on the human body, which astronauts prepare and train hard to face before setting off on their great adventures. *To reduce the flow of blood and other bodily fluids from their legs up to the top half of their bodies, astronauts now wear tight restrictive bands around their thighs while they are in space. These special bands are called ‘compression cuffs’. **0n Earth, human sleep patterns are partly controlled by the 24-hour cycle of night and day. In space, the Sun no longer rises and sets once a day, so getting a…

People often confuse the terms mass and weight. Even though they’re related, they don’t mean the same thing. Mass is a measure of how much matter or ‘stuff’ an object contains. It’s measured in units such as kilograms (kg). Mass tells you how hard it is to move something. The more mass it has, the more difficult it is to move. Weight is different. It’s a measure of how much the force of gravity acts on an object, and is measured in newtons (N). On Earth’s surface, mass and weight behave in the same way because the force of gravity is mostly the same all over the planet. But travel to the Moon, where the force of gravity is around 1/6th of what it is on Earth, and you’ll notice…

Question: In what ways are humans able to communicate with animals? From Nina, age 12 Answer There are some great ways of communicating with animals around you - some of which you can easily try yourself. The first thing to know is that many animals are capable of recognising what you are feeling just by looking at the expression on your face. So always be extra peaceful around them as they will pick up on your emotions. Dogs, cats, horses and even sheep and goats can do this just from seeing a photo of a human face. Horses can even remember whether someone was happy or angry in a photo that they saw hours earlier. They re also more positive about that person if they previously saw them smiling rather…

WHAT GOES UP… These three bike riders are racing in the BMX World Cup in Arnhem in the Netherlands. The rider in the middle is Britain’s Paddy Sharrock. As you can see, he’s about to come back to Earth with a bump! ALL ABOARD! As their name suggests, European toads can be spotted in lots of places throughout Europe. Look out for them in gardens at night, as this is when toads are most active. A MIGHTY DUCK This giant rubber duck is floating in a harbour in Hong Kong in Asia. Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the duck is 16.5 metres tall and takes a full 30 minutes to inflate! FLOWER PRINCESS This photo was taken by a drone flying high in the sky above a park in…

COMPETITION! Do you love science and inventions? Then send us a picture or poem about your all-time favourite invention and you could win a copy of the amazing Science Timeline Wallbook! To enter, send your picture or poem to editor@britannicamagazine.co.uk Good luck!…

This month: Carboniferous creatures! Can you imagine a millipede the size of a person? Or a sea scorpion that is bigger than your outstretched arms? If, like me, you are not so sure that this is a world for you, then be grateful you were not alive 300 million years ago. Welcome to the Carboniferous Period. How insects learned to fly is still a mystery. Experts think it probably had something to do with the arrival of tall plants and trees. Wouldn’t it make sense for an insect to develop little wing flaps to jump or glide from one tree to another? That way they wouldn’t have to climb all the way down and up again. Gradually the wing flaps would have grown larger. Finally insects could glide, dive and…

Jupiter as you've never seen it before! This awesome image shows the gas giant Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. You might not have recognised it at first because of Jupiter’s colouring, which is blue and cyan instead of the more familiar orange and red. This is because the image was taken by an infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space telescope ever built. Since infrared light is invisible to human eyes, scientists have converted the infrared image into colours we can see. For example, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a famous storm so big it could swallow Earth, appears white here because it reflects lots of infrared light. Can remote-controlled cockroaches save the day? A team of scientists in Japan has created…

Things in Space Our solar system is full of objects lighter than Earth, including moons, asteroids and dwarf planets. Mars 642 sextillion kg Earth has a mass that is about 9.3 times greater than that of Mars. Earth 6 septillion kg Ganymede 148 sextillion kg Ganymede, which orbits Jupiter and is the largest moon in the solar system, has a diameter bigger than the planet Mercury’s, and almost half the size of Earth’s. But Ganymede is made mostly out of frozen gases and water, while Earth is made mostly out of rock, which is much denser. So it would take about 40 Ganymedes to equal Earth’s mass. The Moon 73.5 sextillion kg The current mass of our Moon is estimated to be about 73,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 73.5 sextillion) kg. This means…

YOUR fact of the month! The planet Saturn would float in a bath!* Your photos Where does your curiosity take you? Tell us by sending your photos and letters to: photos@britannicamagazine.com Screen time! My dad took this photo of me inside an old TV at a museum in America. It was funny being on the other side of the screen for once! Alice, age 6 Ready for take-off! My brother Jake and I built this giant sandcastle shaped like a Spitfire aeroplane on West Wittering beach during our summer holidays. A real Spitfire flew overhead while we were building it. We couldn’t believe it! Sophie, age 10, Jake, age 8…

SPORT WORD SEARCH Can you spot the 26 sporting events and games hiding somewhere in our jumbo word search puzzle? Good luck! ARCHERY BASEBALL CANOEING DISCUS THROW ESPORTS FENCING GOLF HANDBALL ICE HOCKEY JAVELIN KARATE LACROSSE MARATHON NORDIC SKIING ORIENTEERING POLE VAULT QUIDDITCH RUGBY SQUASH TAEKWONDO ULTIMATE FRISBEE VOLLEYBALL WATERPOLO XARE* YACHTING ZUIQUAN** *Xare is a racket sport popular in South America. **Zui quan is an ancient Chinese martial art. WORD WHEEL Use the word wheel to help find the answers to the five clues below. All the answers contain the middle letter, and each letter can only be used once. WORD MORPHS Change the word FUR to EAT in 3 moves by changing one letter at a time. Each new word you create by changing a letter must be…