HEALTH
The success rate of CPR
What is ~ 10%?
What term describes organisms that thrive in environments humans would consider extreme, such as very hot springs, highly acidic water, or hypersaline lakes?
What are extremophiles?
Narwhals look like they have a unicorn horn growing out of their heads, but this is actually what?
What is a tooth? A narwhal's tusk is an elongated tooth, usually the left upper canine.
Despite covering most of Earth's surface, this environment remains largely unexplored (95%) in detail.
What is the ocean?
This unit measures the average distance between Earth and the Sun, approximately 150 million kilometres.
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
This phenomenon can occur as a person falls asleep or wakes up. They may be conscious but temporarily unable to move and may experience frightening hallucinations.
What is sleep paralysis?
This group of viruses uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into DNA, which can then become integrated into the host cell's genome.
What are retroviruses?
This eight-armed sea creature has three hearts, blue blood containing copper, and neurons distributed throughout its arms.
What is an octopus?
This ground remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years and can preserve ancient organic material.
What is permafrost?
This object has a boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape once it crosses inward.
What is a black hole?
The kill rate of brain-eating amoebas with treatment
What is >90% (97%)?
Some bacteria can form dormant structures that withstand heat, drying, and other harsh environmental conditions for remarkably long periods. What are these structures called?
What are endospores?
This amphibian can regenerate entire limbs and repair parts of its heart and spinal cord.
What is an axolotl?
These deep-ocean structures release superheated, mineral-rich water and support entire ecosystems without sunlight.
This catastrophic stellar explosion can briefly outshine an entire galaxy and spread elements forged in stars into space.
What is a supernova?
This organ can regenerate substantial functional tissue after part of it is removed, provided enough healthy tissue remains.
What is the liver?
This opportunistic bacterium produces pigments that can give infected wounds a distinctive blue-green colour.
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
A clonal contagious cancer that isn’t formed by viruses
What is Devil Facial Tumor Disease (Tasmanian Devil Cancer)?
Scientists have recovered remarkably preserved remains of this extinct Ice Age animal from frozen Siberian ground.
What is a woolly mammoth?
What is the name given to the process in which an object is stretched into a long, thin shape by extreme differences in gravitational force near a black hole?
What is spaghettification?
This fatal neurological disease was historically associated with ritual mortuary practices in Papua New Guinea and was transmitted through exposure to infectious prion proteins.
What is kuru? (the first transmissible spongiform encephalopathy)
This infects ants, manipulates their behaviour, and forces the ants to climb vegetation before the infection grows out of their bodies.
What is Ophiocordyceps, the zombie-ant fungus?
These deep-sea worms colonize whale skeletons on the ocean floor. They secrete acid to dissolve bone and rely on symbiotic bacteria to help digest the nutrients inside.
What are Osedax, or bone-eating worms?
In 1986, a lake in Cameroon suddenly released a huge cloud of this colourless, odourless gas. Because it accumulated near the ground and displaced oxygen, it killed more than 1,700 people and thousands of animals in the surrounding region.
What gas was it?
What is carbon dioxide?
This moon of Saturn has rivers, lakes, and seas made primarily of liquid hydrocarbons rather than water.
What is Titan?