What is the tallest structure humans could ever build? Considering the shape of Earth and existing technology, we could possibly build a 4-kilometer-tall and 6-kilometer-wide building. It would have 800 floors that could accommodate up to one...
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...
Computers are very complex machines, yet people operate them without any technical skills. They just interact with the graphical interface, without knowing what’s going in the background. Well, every element you see on your device is created...
A bridge is a structure built over obstacles such as rivers and valleys. It plays an important role in the rise of transportation, local and worldwide trade, as well as the spreading of knowledge. One of the earliest and simplest types of bridges is...
The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award given for intellectual achievement in several categories. The prize is named after Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who invented numerous explosives, including dynamite, and held...
The history of the “rose gold” started in the mid 19th century in Imperial Russia. Peter Carl Fabergé was one of the first jewelers to use this precious metal in his most ornate creations. Mixing yellow gold with copper resulted in an...
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...
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...
Not all animals are as attractive and eye-pleasing as cats, dogs, and pandas. There are animals that can be termed as ‘ugly’ and are not so pleasing to the eyes. The ugliness of an animal can be morphological (such as unusual body parts...
White gold is an alloy of gold. It is made by mixing pure gold with silverish-white metals, such as silver and palladium. It was originally developed to imitate platinum, a precious white metal. In the industry, “white gold” is often...
Gold has been known for more than 5500 years as an attractive and highly valued metal. While it is sometimes found in nature as the free metal, a large quantity of gold is found in conjunction with calcite, tellurium, quartz, zinc, copper, and lead...
The findings from years of psychological researches have led us to believe that humans are the most intelligent species on the earth. We possess a larger prefrontal cortex (a brain section associated with cognition) than any other animal species and...
