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DK Science: Seedless Plants

ANCIENT HORSETAILSFERN REPRODUCTIONFERN FRONDSMOSS REPRODUCTIONSPOREPEAT MOSSESFIND OUT MOREFerns, horsetails, mosses, and liverworts do not produce flowers or grow from seeds. The life cycles…

Spring Training 1998

For the first time in Major League Baseball history 30 franchises have migrated south to Florida and Arizona to participate in spring training. That's because two new teams, the Tampa Bay…

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databaseA collection of similar information stored in a file, such as a database of addresses. This information may be created and stored in a database management system (DBMS). debugSlang. To find…

DK Science: Organic Chemistry

CARBON IN ALL LIVING THINGSCARBON COMPOUNDSCARBON TECHNOLOGYFIND OUT MOREThe study of all compounds that contain carbon is called organic chemistry. Carbon atoms are unique. They can combine with…

DK Science: Plant Survival

DEFENCESTOUGH ALPINESHIGH UP ON A HOSTXEROPHYTESHALOPHYTESFIND OUT MORESome plants have special features that help them to repel predators. Other plants can survive and even thrive in hostile…

DK Science: Telecommunications

MAKING A TELEPHONE CALLOPTICAL FIBRESFIND OUT MORETelecommunications began more than 160 years ago, with telegraphs and telephones working through wires. We still use wires – known as landlines…

DK Nature: Flowering Plants

WHAT IS INSIDE A FLOWER? WHY ARE GRASSES SO IMPORTANT? CLASSIFICATION: TYPES OF FLOWERING PLANTSCLASSIFICATION: MONOCOTYLEDONS AND DICOTYLEDONS POLLINATIONSEEDSFIND OUT MOREThis is the most abundant…

DK Science & Technology: Heat

HOW DOES HEAT FLOW? WHAT ARE THE THREE TYPES OF HEAT TRANSFER? CAN WE SEE HEAT? TEMPERATURETHERMOMETERSTHERMAL INSULATORSFIND OUT MOREEverything around us contains heat. Heat is a form of energy—…

Narnia: A Look Back

Narnia: A Look Back It's been fifty-five (Earth) years since our first visit by Holly Hartman According to C. S. Lewis, it "all began with a picture of a Faun carrying…