Alexander Graham Bell Facts

Alexander Graham Bell was an influential scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He di...

Leonardo Da Vinci Facts

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 and died on May 2, 1519. He was Italian. Different to a typical surname you might think of...

Nikola Tesla Facts

Tesla was born to Serbian parents on the 10th of July, 1856 in the village of Smiljan, part of the Austrian Empire (now Croatia). He die...

Stephen Hawking Facts

Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist, he was born on January the 8th, 1942. Hawking has made many important contributions...

James Maxwell Facts

James Maxwell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 13th of June 1831 and died on the 5th of November  1879. He produced a set of ...

Marie And Pierre Curie Facts

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie was a French physicist who made many breakthrough discoveries in radioactivity, crystallography and magnetism....

Michael Faraday Facts

Michael Faraday was born in England on the 22nd of September 1791 and died on the 25th of August 1867. His work on electrochemistry and...

Ernest Rutherford Facts

Ernest Rutherford lived from the 30th of August 1871 to the 19th of October 1937. Rutherford studied at Canterbury College, University ...

Louis Pasteur Facts

Louis Pasteur lived from December the 27th 1822 to September the 28th 1895 and was famous for his work on disease causes and prevention....

Galileo Galilei Facts

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, on the 15th of February 1564, he died on the 8th of January 1642. Galileo was a ground break...

Issac Newton Facts

Born in England, Isaac Newton was a highly influential physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher,  alchemist and theologian. ...

Albert Einstein Facts

Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 and died on the 18th of April 1955. Born in Germany to a Jewish family, Einstein ...

Forensic Science Facts

Forensic science uses a range of sciences to answer questions related to legal situations. Forensic science is often used in relatio...

Ear Facts

Our ears help us detect sound. Ears convert sound waves into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. While your ears pick up...

Tooth Facts

Teeth are used to help break down food. Humans form 2 sets of teeth over the course of their lives. The first set (sometimes called ba...

Eye Facts

Eyes detect light and allow us to see. The information our eyes receive is sent to our brain along the optic nerve. This information ...

Lung Facts

The primary functions of your lungs are to transport oxygen from the air you breathe into your bloodstream  while taking away carb...

Skin Facts

Skin is the human body’s largest organ (an organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform functions in your body, others inc...

Blood Facts

Blood makes up around 7% of the weight of a human body. Blood contains red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. These blood...

Heart Facts

The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body, continuously pumping  blood  around our body  through blood vesse...

Human Brain Facts

The human brain is like a powerful computer that stores our memory and controls how we as humans think and react. It has evolved over ti...

Human Body Facts

The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body. More  human brain facts . Your heart beats around 100000 times...

Train Facts

Trains are built to transport passengers or cargo along rail tracks. There are all kinds of different trains that are built for a...

Submarine Facts

Submarines are a special type of watercraft that can operate underwater. They are typically large vessels with a high number of c...

Hot Air Balloon Facts

The first human carrying flight technology was the hot air balloon. While unmanned balloons have been around in some form for thousa...