Look around you. What do you see? A pen? A chair? A wall-clock? Do they have any purpose? With a close inspection, you realize that they serve a purpose. So who made them? From your knowledge, you know that someone…
History of Numbers The idea of counting things started in the late ages of hunter-gather societies. They used the tally system to make records of days, lunar cycles, livestock, population, etc. After the agricultural revolution took over scarcity of food…
Saturn is the third-largest celestial object in our Solar System and the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant comprising mostly hydrogen, helium, and some heavy metals at its core. These gas giants don’t have any solid…
How do we know the age of a Fossil? It all starts in the upper Atmosphere. Earth’s Atmosphere is constantly bombarded with Cosmic Rays from the sun as solar winds. These Cosmic Rays consist of particles like helium nucleus (α-particle),…
Does the Flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? In 1961, an MIT Meteorologist named Edward Norton Lorenz was working on weather simulation equations which were based on 12 variables like temperature, pressure, wind…
It was a sunny day 4,000 years ago when a Greek shepherd went out to the open fields in magnesia with the sheep. In the afternoon, he was exhausted and sat on a rock and started poking the pebble in…
How Mobile communications work? Mobile communication is a segment of Telecommunications where information is transferred without any medium. This technology is developed such that the end-users can communicate from any location in a certified area. Mobile phones communicate with their…
Vision The ability to experience the surrounding made a big leap in the evolution of late-stage multicellular organisms. They became responsive to Electro-Magnetic Radiation (EMR) of a certain range. Until then, living organisms had to make contact with everything nearby…
Firstly, the amazing thing is that we can actually see man-made satellites orbiting around the earth with our naked eyes, in the night sky. When I got to know this I was really surprised and doubted so much because they…