Researchers prove that dead human bodies move around significantly as they decompose. As the body mummifies, the ligaments dry out, which causes parts to move. They captured these movements over a 17-month period. The human body is perhaps the...
From classical antiquity to much of the early modern period — when there were no hard-written criminal laws — brutal tortures were a common method to serve punishments. During the middle ages, committing a crime wouldn’t have...
During the 5th-6th century, people used to distort children skulls by applying force. It was done to distinguish members of different cultural groups in Central Europe. In 2013, archaeologist found the remains of three teenagers in Osijek, a city...
Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate and the situation is getting worse year by year. NASA’s satellite imagery shows that fires in 2019 are more intense than in previous years. Amazon, also called the ‘lungs of the...
By the total number of people killed every year, the mosquito is the deadliest animal on the planet. There are about 3,500 mosquito species known to us. However, only a few of them feed on human blood and transmit life-threatening diseases...
The second World War has always been a hot topic for modern historians studying the prevailing political and economic structure of the contemporary world. Incidents such as nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Battle of Stalingrad...
Earth’s interior structure [along with its composition] is one of the very first things students learn in geography/geology. It gives us a rough idea about the earth’s distant past and how life, as we know today, came into existence on...
Whenever we hear the word ‘shark’ our minds automatically picture a large, scary underwater monster that could tear us apart in a blink of an eye. Credit to ‘Jaws’ but it is not quite the actual reality. There are more than...
The definition of progress is different for everyone and it depends on people’s perspective. Most of us are working extremely hard to improve our future. If you are one who is struggling and going through a tough time, this article is...
The shortwave ultraviolet exposure has been found to be associated with a higher risk of learning disabilities. Researchers conducted the study on 422,512 schoolchildren from across Scotland. About 19% (79,616) of them had a learning disability...
People often use the terms ‘tallest mountains’ and ‘highest mountains’ interchangeably, and they terribly mix-up these two different things. It’s imperative for one to know that both terms have completely different...
If you love coffee, be sure to thank Friedlieb Runge for that instant energy boost! Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge was a German chemist born on February 8, 1794. He was the son of a Lutheran pastor and the third of seven children. He expressed his...