Science teaches us many interesting things such as: facts about our bodies, animals, space, and the world around us. Through out education you’re required to take many science classes. We are lucky enough to get the option to explore many fields of science. At Ada High alone we offer: Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Anatomy, Forensics, Bio Tech, Physiology, and Environmental Science. We asked some students and staff what they thought of science and these are the answers we got:

Junior Autumn Rogers said, “Science is fun and teaches us all about our universe”

Sophomore Kaylee Guam says “I love science because of watching Bill Nye the Science Guy in elementary school.”

Mrs Freeman told us, ” I love science its awesome I love it. It’s my life.”

There are so many scientific facts we can learn to help broaden our minds and expand our horizons. Here are some fun facts to help you learn some things in science that you may not know:

1. There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
2. The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 – 2.25 inches (3.8 – 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

3. While some forensic tests can be completed in as little as an hour, others may take months. There are a large range of specialist fields in forensics including forensic pathology, forensic toxicology, forensic anthropology, forensic chemistry, DNA analysis, forensic entomology, computational forensics and more.
4. The noise that is thunder is created when the air around lightning gets rapidly heated and expands at a rate faster than the speed of sound.
5. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
6. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
7. A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota Landcruisers; a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf; two hamsters the same as a plasma TV.
8. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.
9. On Neptune, the winds blow at 1,600 miles an hour, the temperature can drop to -201 Celsius (-330 Fahrenheit), and the seasons last more than 40 years
10. The Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean. Is an almost unfathomable 11,034 meters deep — almost seven miles down.

Science can teach us of all sorts of unfathomable things. Its our right to go out and discover these things. We as human beings are beyond lucky to get the chance to learn all of these amazing facts.