Science fact - 18

The last sunday of September is celebrated as the World Heart's Day! On this World Heart's Day, here are some crazy facts about your heart: The size of an adult's heart is equal to two fists whereas of a kid's heart is equal to one fist. The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a...

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Science fact - 17

Never Ending Battery For over 170 years, the Oxford Electric Bell (also known as the Clarendon Dry Pile) has been chiming almost continuously, the composition of its power source uncertain.  The Oxford Electric Bell is an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which has run almost continuously ever since, apart...

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Science Fact - 16

September 22 is globally celebrated as the World Rhino Day in appreciation of the 5 rhino species - Black Rhino, White Rhino, Indian Rhino, Javan Rhino and Sumatran Rhino. Three of these - Black Rhino, Javan Rhino and Sumatran Rhino - are critically endangered. Some facts about Rhinos: The name rhinoceros comes from the Greek...

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Found Proof of Extraterrestrial Life. Or Did We?

Yet again, we are back to discussions about existence of extraterrestrial life and another instance of having located it. A recent study published in the Journal of Cosmology points towards the existence of life in space. A specially-designed balloon sent 27km into the stratosphere to monitor the Perseid meteor...

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Want to take a one-way trip to Mars?

The Red Planet has been the focus of discussions these days due to an initiative of one-way trip to the planet by an organisation, Mars One. Their mission is to establish a human settlement on mars within a decade. Between 24 and 40 candidates will be selected to participate in a seven-year training program that would start in 2015....

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Ozone Hole has Started Recovering but Climate Change in Antarctica Uncertain

We have been hearing and talking about ozone depletion and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) since the discovery of ozone hole in May 1985 - the research was published in the journal Nature (Link). Ozone hole isn't an actual hole - it is the annual thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica which is caused by stratospheric chlorine. However,...

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Happy Teacher's Day

Happy Teacher's Day to all the teachers who have put in a lot of effort to make us who we are today. We owe our successes (and failures) to you :D  For those of you who are unaware of the significance of the teacher's day, it is celebrated on the birth date, [5 September 1888], of the first vice president of India and the second...

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Air Pollution Troubles in America

In a recent study, MIT scientists have studied the impacts of air pollution from major sectors on the health of Americans. The results are a bit troubling - about 200,000 premature deaths are caused per year in the U.S. due to changes in fine particles (diameter less than 2.5 microns) concentrations, and...

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