The megadiverse countries are a group of nations that contains more than 70% of the earth’s bio-diversity, identified in 1998 by Conservation International (CI), to promote the awareness for biodiversity conservation among the world nations...
Playing violent video games may alter individuals’ perceptual processing. People who play violent games at least 5 hours a week are far less sensitive to emotionally negative content than those who don’t. Video games have become...
A genetic disorder, in layman’s terms, is a serious medical condition triggered by irregularities in the genome (gene) which can either be hereditary (inherited from parents) or caused by new alterations to the DNA. They can be divided into...
Leonardo da Vinci may have had an eye disorder called intermittent exotropia. It occurs irregularly and somewhat controllable. This may have given Leonardo an unprecedented ability to capture things on the flat canvas. Many famous artists have...
The density, or more precisely the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume (denoted in kg/m3). In space, the densest object observed till date is a neutron star — the collapsed core of a massive star with a mass...
The Chinese space administration (CNSA) is neither the oldest nor the biggest space agency in the world but it’s about to achieve a feat that has been accomplished only by few in the past; establishing a fully functional global navigation...
A new theoretical model explains how did water come to Earth. Water on Earth may not have solely came from asteroid matter. Nearly 2% of Earth’s water originated from the solar nebula. The origin of water is a longstanding enigma...
New study links paternal age to birth risks. The risk is directly proportional to the age of the father: the older he is, the higher the risk. Babies born to fathers older than 35 are at a greater risk of adverse birth outcomes like seizures and...
Researchers found a new family of fish that resided in the ocean at the same time as the dinosaurs. They had sharp and pointed teeth like piranhas, which they used to chew off flesh from other fishes. Paleontologists continuously seek for...
In the next three decades, the air conditioning units will increase by almost 400% worldwide. This will contribute to hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. By 2100, the use of air conditioners alone will increase the...
Uranium is known to humanity since at least 79 AD when it was used in the ceramic industry (natural oxide form) in several parts of Europe. The chemical element was formally discovered only in 1789, when Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist...
Between 1991 and 2016, Earth’s ocean absorbed 150 times more heat energy than the energy produced by humans as electricity annually. Oceans took up nearly 13 zettajoules of heat energy every year. Earth has more than 332,519,000 cubic miles...