• What is jambalaya?
  Rice for a start, then shrimp and peppers, all in an amazing hot ...

• Who wears feathers to a singsing?
  A singsing is a big festival, Papua New Guinea style. Men paint their ...

• Who are the Gauchos?
  The cowboys of the Pampas, which are the grasslands of Argentina. ...

• Where do farmers grow coconuts?
  Coconut fruits are big and green-the bit we buy in shops is just the ...

• What is the nucleus?
  Most of an atom is empty space, but right at its center is a very ...

• What is an ion?
  An ion is an atom that has either lost one or a few electrons, making ...

• Who split the atom?
  Electrons can be split off from atoms easily, but in 1919, the New ...

• How many kinds of particle are there?
  Since the 1920s, scientists have discovered that there are at least ...

• What is the smallest particle of all?
  No one is sure. Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. In ...

• What is a metal?
  Most people can recognize a metal. It is hard, dense and shiny, and ...