Unlike ordinary water, heavy water contains heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, instead of normal hydrogen. Deuterium is an isotope of hyd...
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...
It is a fact that fingernails grow 3 times faster than the toenails. However, the exact reason for this is not yet known to scientists...
Ink is made from two main constituents, viz, colour pigment and liquid which can carry colour pigment via the nib. These constituents ...
Soreness of throat is generally caused due to bacterial infection. (See the enlarged form of bacteria as seen under microscope in the ...
Two substances known as tyrosine and tannin which are present in potato and apple are responsible for this. Oxygen in the air oxidizes t...
It is easy to think of plants as inert life forms that simply sit at one place, soaking up sunlight and water. Yet plants are capabl...
Pearls are produced when a tiny piece of grit or sand becomes trapped inside the shell of an oyster. This irritates the oyster, which ...
It is now confirmed - your dog understands what you tell them . Placing dogs in a MRI scanner , researchers from Hungary canine...
Death apart, years of debate have centred around the question of whether viruses are living or non-living things in the first place. T...
If you think space is thousands of kilometers away, let's see what the renowned British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle had to say on ...
Lightning is basically a bolt of high-powered electricity which prefers to travel along the path of least resistance, i.e. through a g...
The dominant greenhouse gas in a car's exhaust is carbon dioxide/CO2' but other gases are also important with respect to globa...
The tubeless tyres are far from being a new idea. Sev-eral types of such tyres were tried out on military vehicles during the Second W...
Most naturalists agree that the spider called the black widow, native of Americas, is the dealiest of all. Female of this species,...
All the people are very curious to know which is the smallest bird of the world... Yes it is a species of hummingbird. It is gener...
Fish do not have ears, but they can hear pressure changes through ridges on their body. The ear’s malleus, incus and stapes (other...
Sunlight, before being bounced by the atmosphere, is actually made up of the light of all different colours. Each colour results fro...
A lifeless, translucent outgrowth of skin, the fingernail appears pink because it lies over a bed of tissues that is rich in blood....
Bananas being a tropical fruit do not withstand cold climate. As long as they are not ripe they are not affected by ‘frost bite’, ...
