Scientists find a region in northern Ethiopia where water is abundant, but life is absent. The place is Dallol, one of the most remote areas on Earth with a record-high average temperature. So far, no microbial life has been discovered in hot...
It would be historically inaccurate to name a single person or even a country, as the inventor of school. The American politician Horace Mann is generally credited for developing and modernizing schools. Catherine Beecher and Henry Barnard were...
Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical molecules made out of rolled-up sheets of graphene. They are the stiffest and strongest materials yet synthesized. They have unique electrical and thermal properties. These nanotubes can have a variety of...
The 18th century, a period of hundred years from 1701 to 1800, is widely regarded as the ‘Age of Enlightenment.’ The ideas of Enlightenment, which were primarily based on the scientific revolution of the previous century, weakened the...
Drawing is more than just doodling on a sketchbook. It’s a form of visual art, a way of expressing emotions and capturing moments in time. In addition to its artistic forms, drawing is often used in commercial animation, illustration...
The term ‘metal’ is derived from the Greek word ‘metallon,’ which means ‘to extract’ or mine from the ground. Our planet contains plenty of metal. In fact, out of 118 elements in the periodic table, about 95 are...
Dreams can range from being mildly satisfying to vastly frantic. Everyone, including animals, dreams, but why? And why do we almost always forgot those dreams? Below, we have shed light on some of these queries. The scientific study of dreams is...
Benjamin Franklin gets all the credit for discovering electricity, but all he did was establish a link between lightning and electricity. Charles François Fay, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla made...
Vantablack is a fascinating material created by British company Surrey NanoSystems. It is one of the darkest known substances that can absorb as much as 99.965% of visible light (if light falls perpendicular to the material’s surface)...
The hardness of any mineral is defined by its Mohs scale number: harder the mineral, higher its Mohs number. The Mohs scale was devised by a German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs in 1812. It works by analyzing the ability of a material to...
