A Science Web Comic
There have been many studies that show that chocolate may be good for you. Some suggest that eating more chocolate is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, others show that chocolate may even improve brain function by increasing blood flow to the brain. Like I need an excuse to eat chocolate anyway!
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Wool is covered in a waxy coating known as lanolin. I was so shocked when I found out that sheep don’t really get wet that I felt the need to dedicate a comic to it. I will never be able to count sheep to sleep again! Also, on a semi-related note, clouds are not fluffy…
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When I was in high school, this is how I remembered the two different words. Mitosis (sounds like my-toe-es) is a process that results in 2 cells that are identical to the original cell. I remembered that by thinking that they both have the full set of chromosomes, just like all my toes are whole…
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Bacteria are not all bad – your body is full of friendly bacteria! Good bacteria are thought to help us stay healthy by: neutralising toxic effects from bad bacteria, stopping bad bacteria from landing on and over-growing in our body (colonising), attacking bad bacteria, training up immune cells, and helping digest food. Scientists noticed that…
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Plants produce ethylene gas when they are damaged. Ethylene gas is a natural hormone produced by plants, and is involved in the ripening of their fruit. It is also used in agriculture to force ripen fruit. This is also why you can put a ripening banana with an unripe avocado in a paper bag to speed…
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the Runaway Lab Book 