Long ago, there was a town of exceptionally lazy people. They neither cleaned their houses nor kept their streets clean. They did not even bother to weed their vegetable patches. The chief of the town hated looking at the dirty streets and so every now and then he would start a clean-up campaign. But only […]
Google is actually derived from the term ‘Googol’. It is actually a mathematical term which means 1 followed by 100 zeros. This term was invented by Milton Sirotta who was nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. This term was used in book ‘Mathematics and the Imagination’ written by Edward Kasner & James Newman. The term
Google is now the widely popular Internet search engine but how it started is not known by all. Google was actually started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who met each other as students in science program at Stanford. It was earlier just started as a research project in 1996 with the name of ‘Back
Snakes are sometimes taken as pious creatures in certain communities, so people offer them milk. Especially on Naag Panchami, you must have seen people feeding milk to snakes but in reality, snakes don’t take milk. Snakes just lick milk because of their thirst and not take as their food because before such festivals snake-charmers give
Most of us believe plants live and also make their own food but how they see the world. Plants do not have eyes but are sensitive to sunlight. The leaves of the plant make food with sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nutrients from the soil. The green pigment in the leaves called chlorophyll detects sunlight
Long ago, two people who lived in Itang village went to the forest of Obil to trap some animals. They set the trap and caught a lion, but the lion broke the trap and ran away. Now the lion was very angry and waited for the hunters. When he saw the hunters, he chased them
It really seems strange that fish drink water but it’s true. However, all fish don’t drink and which drink, not because of being thirsty but to maintain their body concentration. Actually, the principle of osmosis is the basis of such activity. Freshwater fish have high salt concentration in their bodies as per the osmosis movement
If you have not noticed a bird’s tongue before, here is the needed insight. Birds do have tongues but they are not so functional as humans’. The tongue of a bird has bones unlike a human’s (which is a muscle) and, therefore, less mobile than ours. Different types of birds have different shapes of tongues.
We all know well that water and oil can never be mixed. Water is actually made of various tiny hydrogen and oxygen molecules, charged positively and negatively respectively and as both charges are there, so it’s obvious that they will attract each other and stick together. Such molecules with positive charge at one end and
Generally we use to say that it is the sun which gives us vitamin D to keep us healthy but we can’t ignore the fact that on extra exposure to sunlight, our health can be destroyed too. Actually, sunlight contains invisible UVs (ultraviolet rays) which can cause tanning, burning and even skin cancer too on
We add salt in our daily food to make it tasty; a few people even use to intake it more in addition to taking salty food too. Salt is actually sodium chloride which helps prevent the growth of bacteria, yeast, moulds, etc in food. It also helps reduce the perception of dryness in foods like
Lemons are taken in morning by most of people with warm water with the belief that they can reduce their weight, and it is not baseless. Actually, a lemon contains citric acid in it and when we intake it, it helps the body absorb calcium into its fat cells; as more calcium is absorbed into
Fish remain alive in water as they take in oxygen from their gills just as human beings take in oxygen with the help of lungs. Since the content of oxygen can reduce in the water, fish sometimes suffocate and drown in water. Small fish ponds dry up frequently giving way to fish drowning as it
Sound travels in a medium which can be solid, liquid or gas. Sound travels as it vibrates the molecules of that medium and reaches the ear of the human being. Space, on the other hand, is a vacuum with no medium that can help sound to propagate. Space does not have gas, solid or liquid
A fish is essentially a cold-blooded vertebrate which is characterized by a slender body, heart with two chambers, gills, fins and scales. Unlike marine animals a fish doesn’t have to reach the surface of water to breathe but does so with feather tissue membranes referred to as gills. A fish breathes in water with gills