Featured – LifeTheFacts https://www.lifethefacts.com and the science behind them Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:55:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.lifethefacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Logo-trans-favicon-final-32x32.png Featured – LifeTheFacts https://www.lifethefacts.com 32 32 Green or Clean Energy https://www.lifethefacts.com/green-or-clean-energy/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:43:49 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2888 Energy that does not produce CO2 or other emissions that affect the climate. Typical examples are wind and solar power and are also referred to as renewable energy sources. Many of these energy sources have become cheaper to produce and run than many fossil fuel powered energy sources. A key...

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]]> How Do Human Eyes Work https://www.lifethefacts.com/how-do-human-eyes-work/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:38:34 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1654 The retina at the back of the eye is a complex part of the eye, and its job is to turn light into signals about the images on its surface that the brain can understand. Only the retina is light sensitive, and it is roughly the area of a 10p...

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]]> Light and Human Colour Vision https://www.lifethefacts.com/light-and-human-colour-vision/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:17:09 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=492 Sunlight White light from the Sun is fundamental to human colour vision, but it can be split into all the colours of the rainbow. The light waves are refracted (bent) as they enter and leave the prism. The shorter the wavelength of the light the more it is refracted, so...

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]]> Black Holes Come In Many Forms https://www.lifethefacts.com/black-holes-come-in-many-forms/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:21:20 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=405 In cosmology understanding black holes is a crucial area of study and ultimately may lead to resolving one of the biggest mysteries in physics, the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity. The simplest black holes are formed from collapsed stars. When a star runs out of its fuel and...

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]]> Sir Roger Penrose, the Famous Mathematical Physicist and Cosmologist https://www.lifethefacts.com/sir-roger-penrose-the-famous-mathematical-physicist-and-cosmologist/ https://www.lifethefacts.com/sir-roger-penrose-the-famous-mathematical-physicist-and-cosmologist/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:24:41 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1 Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, was born in Colchester 8th August 1931, the son of Margaret (Leathes) and Lionel Penrose – psychiatrist and geneticist.

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