If you own a house or a business in the United States, you might have heard of backflow testing. In many regions, people are required to do annual testing of a plumbing component called a backflow preventer. If you’ve received a notice...
There is approximately US$ 40 trillion in circulation: this includes all the physical money and the money deposited in savings and checking accounts. Money in the form of investments, derivatives, and cryptocurrencies exceeds $1.3 quadrillion...
A tesseract is a four-dimensional hypercube with 24 faces, 32 edges, and 16 vertices. It can be created by thickening up a cube in a fourth dimension. Although it is impossible to construct a tesseract physically, we can visualize it in our 3D world...
Public aquariums have been a popular tourist attraction since the mid-1800s. The first-ever public aquarium was inaugurated in May 1853 inside the London Zoo, the oldest scientific zoo in the world. It was commissioned by Philip Henry Gosse, a...
The world would a different place if people knew how to read minds. Since humans don’t have such superpowers, we use different types of survey methods to get information. A survey is a research technique widely used to collect data from...
Youtube is still the most popular platform – bigger than every other website, except for Google. It has over two billion logged-in monthly users. On average, each user spends 11 minutes 24 seconds per day on the site. Despite these...
Science fiction is called the “literature of ideas” for a reason. Not only it explores the potential consequences of scientific innovation, but also efficiently separates itself from supernatural stuff, thus making it more of a science...
Special forces or special operations forces are highly trained military units that are well equipped to perform unconventional or unorthodox covert missions concerning a nation’s security interests. There have been many accounts of unique...
The history of coins is vast. Do you know the oldest minted coin was struck sometime between 700 BC to 550 BC in ancient Anatolia? Since then, countless memorable coins have been minted, each with distinct stories. But only a few are considered rare...
A physicist is a scientist who works across a broad range of research fields to understand how matter and energy behave. This includes studying things at all scales, from sub-atomic levels to cosmological length. Since matter and energy are the...
New York City, also known as a city that never sleeps, is home to over 7,000 high-rise buildings, 132 of which are taller than 600 feet (183 m). It is the number two destination globally for tallest towers, behind Hong Kong. NYC’s signature...
According to the data provided by the International Monetary Fund, sixteen out of twenty nations that are sitting at the bottom of PPP per capita index are located in the African continent. Predictably enough, most of these countries experience...
