Every Science Fact Ever

A wood frog — The Cosmonaut. CC BY-SA 2.5.

Measured fact

Some wood frogs can freeze in winter, then thaw and hop.

Scientists have watched these frogs freeze and later start moving again.

A honey bee on a flower — Tanner Smida. CC BY 4.0.

Living things

Materials

Water is H2O
Water is H2O, two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
Carbon two ways
Diamond and pencil graphite are both carbon, packed in different ways.
Ice floats
Ice floats on liquid water.

01

Forces

A magnet has two poles, called north and south.

02

Forces

Sound needs something to travel through, so it cannot cross empty space.

03

Forces

Friction is a force that slows things that rub or slide.

Earth, photographed from Apollo 17 — NASA. Public domain.

Earth and sky

Jupiter's clouds, from NASA's Juno spacecraft — NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS. Public domain.

Unusual facts

Measured fact

A metal can be a liquid at room temperature, and that metal is mercury.

Measured fact

An octopus has three hearts.

Measured fact

A banana is a berry, and a strawberry is not.

Measured fact

One full spin of Venus takes longer than its trip around the Sun.

Time

Places

Rainforest canopy in the Amazon

Rainforest field station

A university science building

Chemistry lab

Telescope domes on Mauna Kea

Observatory

Lyme Regis, England, beside the sea cliffs

Fossil cliff

St Mary's Hospital in London

Hospital lab

A common octopus

The ocean

Scientists

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison

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Photo credits

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Charles Darwin. Julia Margaret Cameron. Public domain.
Jane Goodall. U.S. Department of State. Public domain.
George Washington Carver. Public domain. Restored by Adam Cuerden.
Barbara McClintock in her laboratory. Smithsonian Institution. Public domain.
Ernest Everett Just. Public domain.
Wangari Maathai. Kingkongphoto. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marie Curie. Henri Manuel. Public domain.
Rosalind Franklin at a microscope. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Percy Julian. Public domain.
Tu Youyou. Bengt Nyman. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dmitri Mendeleev. Public domain.
Alice Ball. Public domain.
Isaac Newton. Godfrey Kneller. Public domain.
Michael Faraday. Public domain.
Chien-Shiung Wu. Smithsonian Institution. Public domain.
Ada Lovelace. Alfred Edward Chalon. Public domain.
Shirley Ann Jackson. World Economic Forum / Qilai Shen. CC BY-SA 2.0.
A later drawing of Hasan Ibn al-Haytham. Public domain.
Mary Anning. Painting credited to Mr. Grey. Public domain.
Katherine Johnson. NASA. Public domain. Restored by Adam Cuerden.
Mae Jemison. NASA. Public domain.
Nicolaus Copernicus. Public domain.
Galileo Galilei. Justus Sustermans. Public domain.
A wood frog. The Cosmonaut. CC BY-SA 2.5.
A honey bee on a flower. Tanner Smida. CC BY 4.0.
A button mushroom. chris_73. CC BY-SA 3.0.
A chimpanzee in a forest. Giles Laurent. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rainforest canopy in the Amazon. CIAT. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sweet wormwood, the plant artemisinin comes from. Kristian Peters. CC BY-SA 3.0.
A university science building. Mike Peel. CC BY-SA 4.0.
A magnet pulling a piece of magnetite. GOKLuLe. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Earth, photographed from Apollo 17. NASA. Public domain.
Jupiter's clouds, from NASA's Juno spacecraft. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS. Public domain.
The Hubble Space Telescope above Earth. NASA. Public domain.
Telescope domes on Mauna Kea. T. Wynne / NASA JPL. Public domain.
Hands being washed with soap. Lars Klintwall Malmqvist. Public domain.
A common octopus. Albert Kok. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stonehenge, an old stone circle used to track the sky. garethwiscombe. CC BY 2.0.
A microscope on a bright table. Ann 2000. CC BY-SA 4.0.
A lab dish with spots of germs. SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo. CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wright Flyer on its first flight in 1903. John T. Daniels. Public domain.
Part of Babbage's Difference Engine. geni. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lyme Regis, England, beside the sea cliffs. Eugene Birchall. CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Hospital in London. Enric. CC BY-SA 2.0.