Science

There was a chamber decorated with six tonnes of amber, known as the Amber Room.

Snowflakes fall relatively slowly, at about four kilometers per hour.

People suffering from anorexia often perceive themselves as overweight, although in reality, they are underweight.

Mushrooms are of great importance in the development of civilization, due to their key role in the production of bread and wine.

Phobos craters are named after astronomers who contributed to the study of the moon, and characters and locations from Jonathan Swift's “Gulliver’s Travels.”

Nicotine is a strong neurotoxin - it affects the nervous system.

In 1997, NASA, in collaboration with ESA and ASI (Italy), launched the Cassini-Huygens space-research mission.

There are many theories about the formation of the Moon, but the most probable is that in the early days of the Solar System, the proto-Earth collided with a celestial body the size of Mars, and this impact generated enough energy to throw enough material into Earth's orbit to form the Moon.

The science of mushrooms is mycology.

Basal tears production drops with age.