Researchers analyze recorded cigarette sales and survey data in England between 2011 and 2018. They found that overall consumption of cigarette has declined by almost 1/4th during this period. Government has committed to making the United Kingdom...
Do you know whales are genetically closer to hippopotamuses than any other mammals on Earth? They were separated about 40 million ago. Anyway, Whales belong to the infraorder Cetacea, which is divided into two parvorders; Mysticeti (baleen whales)...
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...
There is approximately US $37 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 $1.2 quadrillion...
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 Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award given for intellectual achievement in several categories. The prize is named after a Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who invented numerous explosive including dynamite and held...
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...
Computers are very complex machines, yet people operate them without any technical skills. They just interact with the graphical interface and all the background process is usually hidden. Well, every single element you are seeing on your desktop is...
Earth’s interior structure [along with its composition] is one of the very first things students study in a school in geography/geology. It gives us a rough idea about the earth’s distant past and how life, as we know today, came into...