Science Corner, Day 3

Science Corner, Day 3

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  Science Corner! Day 3
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  Scientist of theDay Eleanor Maguire
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  Eleanor Maguire isa famous Irish neuroscientist from Dublin. The study of the brain is called neuroscience. Neuroscientists try to explain the where, how and why of our brain’s actions and workings.
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  A lot ofEleanor Maguire’s research has focused on how our memories work. For the past 20 years she has been trying to answer some of these questions: What part of our brain do we store our memories? What happens to our brains when we learn new things? How do we learn things? What does our brain look like when we are trying to remember or learn things?
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  One of hermost interesting experiments involved London taxi drivers. Maguire discovered that a particular part of the brain (called the hippocampus) changed when people were learning the streets of London. Because of Maguire’s work, we can say that the reason why we can remember where our school is because our hippocampus was working properly when we were first learning our way to
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  Maguire’s interesting work onhow we make memories has earned her many awards and prestigious prizes. She is still continuing her research.
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  Human Body Facts •An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults. • As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue and toe prints. • Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents. • You can go without eating for weeks but you can only survive without sleep for 11 days. • All babies are colour blind when they are born so they only see black & white. • It takes food only seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
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  Science Picture ofthe Day
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  Explanation – KarenNyburg This is astronaut Karen Nyburg. She is a scientist working on the International Space Station as an engineer. Karen sometimes makes videos showing ‘real life’ in a space station and how it doesn’t always match what the movies think life in space is like! One video that Karen has made is about how you can wash your hair in space with no gravity or running water. Click Here!
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  Science Picture ofthe Day
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  Explanation – TheWaggle dance These are the honey bees in their hives. The bee surrounded in red is doing a ‘waggle dance’. The ‘scout’ bee performs the waggle dance for a hive when they have found a good source of food for the hive. This ‘dance’ is done in a figure of 8. If the dance is fast, the food is nearby; a slow dance means far away! During the dance, the scout bee will direct its stinger in different directions. The direction of its stinger indicates the direction of the food source. Watch a waggle dance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nga4Z_HRUsU.