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True. Even when ripe, oranges are often bright green in colour. They only turn orange if the weather gets cold enough to cause the chlorophyll in their skins to break down. If this doesn’t happen naturally, farmers expose the ripe but still green oranges to a gas called ethylene to break down chlorophyll and unmask the orange or yellow pigments.
3 x 37 = 111. You can tell that 111 is divisible by 3 because 1 plus 1 plus 1 is also divisible by 3.
The James Webb Space Telescope can detect orange and red light, but mostly uses even redder, infrared light.
True! Some spiders create sails from their silk, to help them fly on the breeze. This is called ‘ballooning’.
A beautiful yellow glass beetle found in Tutankhamun’s tomb was carved from 29-million-year-old glass from a meteorite impact.
True! Mosquitoes are members of the order Diptera (meaning 2 wings), which is the scientific definition of a fly.
Saturn is known for its rings made up of billions of small chunks of rock and ice, plus other materials such as dust.
The most common lightning strikes are between 2 places in the same cloud, but lightning can also strike between 2 clouds, from a cloud to the ground, or even from the ground up into a cloud!
Orange carrots are coloured by carotenoids, including beta-carotene. These chemicals also help make carrots nutritious, helping your body make vitamin A.
Marie Curie won 2 Nobel Prizes and was also the mother of Irène Joliot-Curie who also won a Nobel Prize.
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