How to tell if a person is curious about knowledge? Well, you’ve landed on this page, which indicates that you have been bitten by a bug called curiosity, and now there is no going back. Every day, dozens of fascinating questions pop into your...
Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly one of the most admired fictional characters of all time. He might not be the first fictional detective in history but is arguably the best. Holmes is known for his proficiency in human anatomy, chemistry, acute...
Ammonia is a colorless gas that is produced from natural sources as well as industrial synthesis. About 175 million tons of ammonia is produced synthetically every year. More than 85% of produced ammonia is used as fertilizers and in household...
Like almost everything in the universe, stars born, live their lives, and then die in the span of millions and sometimes billions of years. It took decades for researchers to identify and catalog the different types of stars, how they form, and...
Google Chrome has a 64% worldwide browser market share across all platforms. It is known for its speed, stability, and UI, but what most people don’t know is it has a list of experimental features that allows users to make various kinds of...
It takes a tremendous amount of effort to make a game. A lot of things happen behind the curtains that we don’t get to know. If you see from a programmer’s point of view, you’ve to create complex loops, select good graphics...
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is currently the most popular and widely adopted symmetric encryption algorithm. It was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen. If properly implemented, the algorithm is...
Although Johann Zahn is generally credited for inventing the camera, it was the culmination of work done by many individuals and private companies. Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre, Alphonse Giroux, and George Eastman made significant...
What is the world’s deadliest animal (apart from humans)? Well, based on the number of humans killed per year, it is not a shark or snake, but something much smaller than that: a mosquito. Indeed, most of the reported deaths caused by animals...
A battery, as you may already know, is primarily made of three components; the cathode (positive terminal), the anode (negative terminal), and an electrolyte, a chemical medium that physically separates those two. When a battery is hooked up to an...
In physics, a force can be defined as a push or pull on any object that has mass. It changes the object’s motion. In other words, a force causes an object with mass to change its direction and velocity. Two great physicists Isaac Newton and...
Everything in the Universe — from Earth’s core to farthest galaxies — is made of atoms. It’s a fundamental unit of an element. So far, 118 elements have been identified (all are listed in the periodic table). The word...