Only a few types of fishes can survive in terrestrial environment for more than a couple of minutes. Perhaps best known is the mudsk...
Unlike ordinary water, heavy water contains heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, instead of normal hydrogen. Deuterium is an isotope of hyd...
There is no object in the Universe that doesn't rotate on its axis and our milky is no exception. This vast system of stars, sha...
The hardness of minerals is measured on a scale of 1- 10, which was devised in 1822 by an Austrian named Friedrich Mohs. Number 1 on...
For many years, a pine tree code named WPN-114 (photo, below) in the state of Nevada of the USA was known to be the oldest tree in e...
The chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell contain all the information a cell needs to carry on its life processes. They are made up o...
The abbreviation stands for cubic centimetres, but it's not so simple as 'the volume taken up by the engine.' Cubic centi...
When a star reaches the final stage of its life, it often detonates in cataclysms known as supernovae. Such an explosion scatters mo...
