The Mariana Trench is known to house the deepest point in the world, Challenger Deep. Only two people have dared to confront its fearful and dark deepness, and their venture proved that life prevails even in the deepest of waters, which poses a question to us: If sea creatures can exist in the lowest areas […]
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Discovered by Jan Evangelista Purkinje, the Purkinje Effect was initially observed because of the changing colors of Jan’s favorite flower in his outdoor strolls. His simple speculations revolutionized the way we understand our vision now. The Purkinje Effect describes the color-changing phenomenon in our vision when we’re in varying light conditions wherein color contrast changes
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A natural expert in the field of science, Nikolai Vavilov’s success was evident. With hundreds of research institutes and experiment stations to his name, Nikolai converted the Soviet Union into the international leader of genetics and plant breeding. Nikolai Vavilov made innumerable contributions to genetics and plant breeding. He collected seeds of wild crops and
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Experts continue to find more indescribable animal fossils as time pass. Paleontologists were shocked that the now identified Tully Monster was not a worm, as they initially thought, but a soft-bodied vertebrate. The Tully monster, which has remained a mystery for numerous decades, has finally been identified as an ancient vertebrate that lives in bodies
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Wouldn’t it be amazing to travel from one country to another in a matter of moments? That’s possible with one of the fastest commercial air carriers. Let’s find out more about the Concorde. The Concorde airplane flew so fast that if you left New York in the dark, you would be able to see the
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Building a world-class research facility in the Middle East isn’t as easy as you would think it to be. Scientists have been trying to convince the governments in the region to put their differences aside and come together to build a particle accelerator. Cyprus was supposed to hose the first particle accelerator in the Middle
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One thing we must note is, bees and wasps are not the same. They are wired differently, and one is definitely more dangerous than the other. If you see a wasp nest, steer clear of it. Unlike bees, jumping in a body of water when a swarm of wasps comes after you will not help.
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Whenever we are on the internet and searching for things through our browsers, we don’t really stop to think where all this came from and how it started. But if you’re curious, here’s the story of how the World Wide Web came to be. Sir Tim Berners-Lee was annoyed that he had to go back
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Have you ever heard of the story about two frogs in the bowl of milk? The moral of the tale is to never give up. But what happens when you actually put a frog in a bucket of milk? Let’s find out. Back in the day, when refrigeration was not yet invented, Russians had a
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From what we know, leaded gas has been phased out for almost three decades. But apparently, airplanes still use this form of fuel that is quite toxic. Leaded fuel is still being sold at around 13,000 airports across the United States. An estimated 170,000 small aircraft use this fuel. The residue of which has been
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