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'Do fetuses poop in their mother's womb?' 'How do penguins avoid frostbite?' 'Why are beehives hexagonal?' This book starts from such trivial curiosities and introduces the scientific principles hidden within them in a fun way through illustrations and storytelling.
So, as you read the book, you will be surprised to find that fields of science that were previously considered difficult, such as biology, chemistry, ecology, and neuroscience, are so easy and close to everyday life.


We learn a lot when we take an interest in nature and observe it, such as the turtle shell that helped it survive a mass extinction, the wondernet on the soles of penguins' feet that prevents frostbite, and the honeycomb structure of beehives used in KTX.
Professor Choi Jae-cheon, a leading authority in biology, praised the book, saying, "Is there a science book this fascinating? It's packed with intelligent and engaging stories." He urged readers to read it.
Through this book, we discover the mysteries of life that become more wondrous with each page turn, and the amazing laws of nature revealed by science.

Scoville performed surgery to remove Molaison's temporal lobe.
There is a part of the temporal lobe called the hippocampus.
The hippocampus is a very important place that converts short-term memory into long-term memory.
However, this role of the hippocampus was not known when Scoville performed the surgery.
So when they removed the temporal lobe, they also removed the hippocampus.
As a result, Molaison couldn't remember anything new.
Because the hippocampus was removed, the process of converting short-term memory into long-term memory did not occur.
I didn't recognize the medical staff I met every day, and I couldn't find the bathroom even though they repeatedly told me where it was.
In other words, if the hippocampus is removed, new information that occurs after the removal will not be remembered.
This is called anterograde amnesia.
--- From "What would happen if we removed the hippocampus from our heads?"

No matter how good your hearing and sense of smell are, hunting an invisible mouse is not easy.
However, red foxes are easily successful in hunting thanks to their ability to see geomagnetism.
The Earth's magnetic field always points north, like a compass, and red foxes use the direction of this magnetic field as a reference to more accurately determine the distance to their prey.
In fact, studies of red foxes have shown that when the foxes jump in a northeasterly direction, which is about 20 degrees east of the magnetic north, the success rate for hunting is 74 percent, but when they jump in other directions, such as east or west, the success rate is less than 18 percent.
Foxes not only have excellent hearing and sense of smell, but they also possess radar that allows them to perfectly calculate the location of prey buried in the snow using geomagnetic sensors.
--- From "The Amazing Reason Why Foxes Dive Into the Snow"

So, let's address a more fundamental question here.
Why do flounders live on the bottom? Fish that live underwater have air sacs called swim bladders.
It is thanks to this swim bladder that fish can move freely up and down in the water.
If you want to go up, increase the amount of air in your bladder, and if you want to go down, decrease the amount of air in your bladder.
Young flounders have swim bladders, but they gradually disappear as they grow.
Because they have no bladder, they cannot move freely up and down, so they go down to the bottom to live.
In other words, flounders do not have swim bladders, so they live on the bottom. To live on the bottom, it is more important to look up than forward, so they evolved into their current face.
--- From "How did the flounder's face become like this?"

As the abandoned reindeer carcass decomposed, various insects, including maggots, appeared, followed soon by rodents, including rats.
It was thought that this would completely destroy the environment and ecosystem of the national park, but nature completely surpassed human expectations.
Because there were many bugs, small birds that fed on bugs appeared.
Crows also stopped by to eat insects and corpses, and because there were so many rats, foxes that preyed on rats also appeared in the park.
As the number of foxes increased, black eagles that hunted them also appeared in the park.
Thanks to this decision to leave the reindeer carcasses alone, nature has naturally made the ecosystem more vibrant.

--- From "The mass death of reindeer brought about miraculous results?"

The reason humans have high intelligence is because their brains have many nerve cells called neurons.
While humans have about 100 billion neurons, bees have about 1 million neurons.
In other words, basic arithmetic operations, such as addition and subtraction, which are considered low-level for us, are extremely high-level for bees.
Bees use this mathematical ability to find fields with more flowers or to distinguish between different types of flowers based on the number of petals.
Scarlett Howard's research goes beyond simply discovering the mathematical abilities of bees, and could be applied to studying how sophisticated tasks can be accomplished with fewer neurons, and even how computers can operate with less energy.

--- From "There are animals that are better at math than humans?"