2019-01-06 14:19
The liver performs over 500 different functions! In fact, it is so important that we cannot live without our liver. The quest for a device that can fill in for the function of the liver, at… Read More
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2019-01-05 14:17
Fuel cell bikes are a new invention- and a cool one at that. On an ordinary bike, you cannot travel very long distances, as you would get exhausted from all the pedaling. The alternatives to… Read More
2019-01-04 14:15
A genome is a genetic material that makes up a living organism. It is contained in chromosomes, which are the tiny threadlike structures inside cells. Chromosomes are made from a chemical su… Read More
2019-01-03 14:11
Hybrid cars use an internal combustion engine and can be fuelled like normal cars-but have an electric motor and battery, and can be powered by electricity. It was the oil crisis of 1973 tha… Read More
2019-01-02 14:07
In 1996, a major scientific breakthrough stunned the world. This was the year that the first mammal was successfully cloned from an adult cell. What is cloning? Cloning is a process in which… Read More
2019-01-01 14:05
CDs are one of the most popular ways of storing music and computer data. A CD is a thin, circular disc of metal and plastic which uses flashing laser lights to record and read back informati… Read More
2018-12-26 15:20
The Large Hadron Collider, built by CERN, is basically an atom smasher. It straddles the borders of France and Switzerland, and is the largest, most complex experimental facility ever built… Read More
2018-12-18 13:44
Turn on the TV and you’ll hear commentators, scientists, historians and economists speculate about the future. Will the stock market go up or down? Will the latest revolution succeed o… Read More
2018-12-13 14:02
T he USB -its full form is Universal Serial Bus- is a connection used to connect a computer to devices such as digital cameras, printers, scanners, and external hard drives. It was developed… Read More
2018-12-04 13:41
Mid-afternoon on Friday, March 11, 2011, the earthquake hit. Its epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean off northern Japan, and it caused a deadly tsunami (an unusually huge sea wave or series o… Read More
2018-12-02 13:39
Some call it the “Arab Spring,” a time of revolt and change in the Arab world. It started in Tunisia, with just one man, Mohamed Bouazizi, a poor seller of fruits and vegetables… Read More
2018-11-25 13:37
It was the world’s worst ever spill of oil into ocean waters. The disaster began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion rocked the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, located in the Gulf of Mexic… Read More
2018-11-23 15:18
The ATM is one of the most popular among modern day inventions. ATM, also known as the Automated Teller Machine, is an electronic telecommunications device that enables the customers of a fi… Read More
2018-11-23 15:17
A bionic eye mimics the function of the retina to restore sight for those with severe vision loss. It is a boon for people who have gone blind from degenerative eye diseases. Such diseases d… Read More
2018-11-19 15:14
I Phones are smart phones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Development of the first model began in 2004, when Apple started to gather a team to work on the highly confidential “Proj… Read More
2018-11-18 13:30
Are we alone in the universe? In 2008, the Phoenix Mars lander, launched by the United States, brought us closer to an answer when it detected water in a soil sample from the surface of Mars… Read More
2018-11-16 13:59
A smart phone is basically a cell phone that performs many of the functions of a computer such as e-mail or Internet browsing. Today, almost about everyone owns a smart phone, even thou… Read More
2018-11-14 13:57
The webcam was actually invented by lazy students at Cambridge University who didn’t want to waste a trip to the nearby coffee pot if it was going to be empty when they got there! In 1… Read More
2018-11-14 13:36
In April 2010, a little-known volcano on Iceland called Eyjafjallajökull erupted, spewing volcanic ash and steam almost 11 km (7 mi.) into the air. The ash cloud, carried by the jet str… Read More
2018-11-13 14:27
The idea of a network of computers was the brainchild of American professor Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider. In the early 1960s, he had a vision of a computer network that would link the world… Read More
2018-11-09 13:34
There were about 950 natural disasters in 2010, making it one of the worst years ever for such catastrophes. They ranged from weather-related emergencies such as heat waves and hurricanes to… Read More
2018-11-07 15:08
YouTube is a video sharing website. Launched in May 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, as well as to watch and share originally-created videos. It also provides a forum for… Read More
2018-11-07 13:33
Many thought it would never happen, but in 2008, the United States elected its first president of African American descent, Barack Obama. It wasn’t the only first in Obama’s life… Read More
2018-11-05 14:18
His assassination stunned the world. On November 22, 1963, as the dynamic 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, waved to the crowds from a convertible slowly navigating the s… Read More
2018-11-03 13:55
The Mega 1 is a watch, but it is different from ordinary watches. It is a radio controlled watch. Most people regularly check their watches against a reliable time signal-like the ones you h… Read More
2018-10-23 14:15
It was the last speech of the day during the March on Washington, a civil rights protest to end discrimination and inequality between Blacks and Whites. Baptist minister Reverend Martin Luth… Read More
2018-10-22 15:22
In 2012, researchers at Cornell University and Germany’s University of Ulm accidentally discovered the world’s thinnest sheet of glass. They were trying to create graphene, one o… Read More
2018-10-18 13:02
It was a bright, sunny September morning in New York when 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners over the United States. The planes were heavily fueled for the long flights t… Read More
2018-10-13 14:13
“Sinister” and “hysterical” were just two of the insults hurled at Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring. But Carson was not deterred by the attempts to silen… Read More
2018-10-13 10:55
Many of us have the obsession of getting clicked very often isn’t? Or maybe you are on a trip and want to capture the memories of the place in your camera. Thanks to the introduction o… Read More
2018-10-12 12:42
Nelson Mandela is a Black South African leader who opposed the South African government’s treatment of its Black citizens, especially its policy of apartheid. This policy kept Blacks s… Read More
2018-10-07 15:07
I n simple terms, graphene, is a thin layer of pure carbon. It is a single, tightly packed layer of carbon atoms that are bonded together in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice. It is the thinnest… Read More
2018-10-07 15:04
Skype is an application for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. It provides video, chat, and voice call services that make it simple to share experiences with the people that… Read More
2018-10-07 12:39
In the mid-1980s, the Communist countries dominated by the Soviet Union began agitating for change. They wanted more freedom and independence from Soviet control. Shipyard workers in Poland… Read More
2018-10-06 13:51
The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope that orbits the Earth. It was launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Hubble orbits about 547 kilometres above the E… Read More
2018-10-05 14:11
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — they called themselves the Beatles, and their music launched a passionate, worldwide following known as Beatlemania. From… Read More
2018-10-05 13:11
Week after week, in the summer of 2003, the sun beat down on western Europe, causing heat waves, drought, forest fires — and more than 35 000 deaths. It was the hottest summer in Europ… Read More
2018-09-28 14:08
In the darkness of the early morning of August 13, 1961, the Soviet-controlled East German government began to build a wall through the city of Berlin. A cinder-block and barbedwire wall wit… Read More
2018-09-20 14:06
When the laser was first demonstrated by Theodore H. Maiman, an American physicist, on May 16, 1960, no one knew how to make use of it. The first widespread use of lasers was in 1974, with b… Read More
2018-09-18 13:09
As it was about to land after a 16-day research flight, the space shuttle Columbia exploded, killing all seven astronauts. It was the 113th mission of the space shuttle program and Columbia… Read More
2018-09-15 14:01
The letters GPS stand for Global Navigation System. This system gives us information about location and time in all weather conditions, anywhere on Earth. It consists of 24 satellites that o… Read More
2018-09-15 14:00
Sirimavo Bandaranaike rose to power in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) after her husband’s assassination. He had been prime minister, and she took over from him, becoming the world’s firs… Read More
2018-09-15 12:44
Hubble wasn’t the first space telescope, but it’s the best known because it has beamed back a huge amount of valuable data on the stars and planets. Pictures taken by telescopes… Read More
2018-09-09 13:05
Keeping in touch with friends around the world became much easier in 2003 when Myspace was set up in Santa Monica, California. Facebook, a similar online social networking system, was launch… Read More
2018-09-07 12:38
Since late April 1989, hundreds of thousands of Chinese, many of them students, had been peacefully protesting against their government in Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, China. O… Read More
2018-09-05 13:58
The place: sun-baked Olduvai Gorge, eastern Africa. The date: July 17, 1959. British archaeologist Mary Leakey noticed a piece of bone she thought might be part of an ancient human skull. Wh… Read More
2018-09-05 12:33
More than 41 million liters (11 million gallons) of black, sticky oil spilled over 2100 km (1300 mi.) of Alaskan coastline when the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound… Read More
2018-09-02 12:25
Few people had heard of HIV or AIDS before the 1980s. That all changed around 1982. People learned that an infection called HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) can lead to AIDS (acquired immu… Read More
2018-08-28 13:56
After the transistor was invented in 1947, scientists realized that if one transistor was good, then several connected together on a unit would be better (more powerful). On September 12, 19… Read More
2018-08-20 13:53
The Space Age started on October 4, 1957, when Russia launched the satellite Sputnik 1. A satellite is anything that orbits a planet. For instance, the Moon is a satellite of the Earth. But… Read More
2018-08-20 12:48
The MP3 format for encoding and decoding music was first released in 1993, although it didn’t get its name until 1995. Computers can rip, or import, audio files from CDs or collect the… Read More
2018-08-19 16:29
Is there life on Mars? This question has intrigued people for centuries. In the 1960s and ’70s, the Soviet Union tried to find out by sending several space probes to Mars. Most failed… Read More
2018-08-16 15:12
More than four decades after the introduction of the computer mouse, Microsoft has established a new branch of computer technology known as surface computing. The goal of surface computing i… Read More
2018-08-16 12:47
Tim Berners-Lee was frustrated. The British physicist and computer scientist was working at a physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland, with scientists from all over the world. They brought with t… Read More
2018-08-15 13:52
When a vaccine for polio was announced on April 12, 1955, there were celebrations around the world. Other diseases were more devastating, but polio especially affected children, killing them… Read More
2018-08-10 13:45
Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, was passionate about climbing mountains. Tenzing Norgay, a skilled Sherpa guide from Nepal, had helped lead many climbing expeditions. Both men were… Read More
2018-08-07 16:21
With the invention of the microchip, many electronic devices, including computers, became a lot smaller. Computers shrank further when the microprocessor was invented in 1971 and reduced the… Read More
2018-08-07 13:41
For a long time, people had been interested in how organisms pass on their characteristics. How, for example, does a kitten inherit its coloring from its parents? Then, in 1866, Gregor Mende… Read More
2018-08-04 12:28
It was supposed to be a routine check and a chance to run a few tests to see if the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine (part of the Soviet Union) would function well during a power outage. B… Read More
2018-08-03 15:02
Blu-ray is the name of a new optical disc format. The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting, and playback of high-definition video, as well as storing large amounts of data. Th… Read More
2018-08-02 13:38
It cost many lives and devastated a huge country. From the 1920s until 1949, the Chinese Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, and the Kuomintang (KMT, or Chinese National People’s Party… Read More
2018-08-02 12:21
In December 1978, two million Iranians filled the streets of Tehran and demanded an end to the rule of the monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Three months later, an Islamic religious leade… Read More
2018-07-31 13:00
Who could have guessed that J. K. Rowling’s first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone in America), would shoot to the top of the bestseller… Read More
2018-07-30 12:56
Her name was Dolly, and although she looked like an ordinary sheep, she became one of the most famous animals ever. That’s because when Dolly was born on July 5, 1996, near Edinburgh… Read More
2018-07-28 15:10
Night vision goggles are special glasses that enable a person to see in the dark. These goggles have many uses for military and law enforcement agencies. The first practical night vision dev… Read More
2018-07-27 13:35
For centuries, Jews, Muslims, and Christians have had strong religious ties to a small area in the Middle East that some call Palestine and others call Israel. After the murder of six millio… Read More
2018-07-26 13:33
When American physicists John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain created the transistor in December 1947, no one was excited. But soon scientists were saying the transistor was th… Read More
2018-07-26 12:54
When the idea of a transportation tunnel under the English Channel connecting England and France was suggested in 1802, Britain wasn’t interested. The Channel acted like a moat around… Read More
2018-07-25 16:18
On April 3, 1973, people were amazed when American engineer Martin Cooper made a phone call from a New York City sidewalk using a cell phone he had developed. It weighed about 0.9 kg (2 lb.)… Read More
2018-07-25 15:00
During, and after World War II, tremendous amounts of time and effort were put into researching high-speed jet and rocket powered aircraft. Scramjet is an engine technology that is aime… Read More
2018-07-25 14:23
World War II (page 88) destroyed the lives of millions of people. The leaders of the “Big Four” countries (the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China) knew they had t… Read More
2018-07-21 14:58
For decades, to listen to radio entertainment, you had two choices – AM radio and FM radio. But in the last few years, an entirely new way to listen to radio has an emerged-satellite r… Read More
2018-07-21 14:21
By the summer of 1945, World War II had ended in Europe, but the war with Japan raged on. U.S. President Harry Truman wanted to end the war. The United States had a secret weapon, the h… Read More
2018-07-21 12:50
The European Union (EU) was founded on November 1, 1993. But the idea for an association of countries from across Europe began after World War II ended in 1945. Many of the countries&rs&hell…Read More
2018-07-20 14:20
On July 20, 1969, people sat glued to their TV sets as they watched a man in a bulky white suit, huge plastic helmet and giant boots step off the ladder of a spacecraft and onto the surface… Read More
2018-07-20 14:07
The process of nuclear fission was discovered in 1939 by German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, and Lise Meitner, a physicist from Austria. They knew about the work of Niels Bohr&nb&hell…Read More
2018-07-20 12:15
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …” With those words, movies changed forever. The plot of Star Wars wasn’t new. It was like an old-fashioned science fictio… Read More
2018-07-18 16:16
More than 200 million tons of plastic are manufactured each year around the world. As plastics began to pile up in dumps, scientists wondered what to do. In 1971, Canadian chemist James Guil… Read More
2018-07-18 15:37
Everyone talks about virtual reality, but do you know what it actually is? Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way… Read More
2018-07-18 14:02
Although Charles Babbage had designed computer-like machines, none of his machines was ever completed in his lifetime. Most scientists agree that the first computer was built in 1939 by… Read More
2018-07-16 13:58
Twenty-one years after World War I (page 78), the world was plunged into another world war. Many historians believe that tensions started with the peace treaty that ended World War I. That t… Read More
2018-07-13 13:53
The 1936 Olympics were a perfect opportunity for Germany’s Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his racist Nazi Party to flaunt their power and beliefs. They decided to use the games to show th… Read More
2018-07-11 13:50
The early 1930s was a time of uncertainty and turmoil in Germany. The country was humiliated by its defeat in World War I and struggling economically. Germany was eager to find a way o… Read More
2018-07-10 13:49
The British had ruled India for about 80 years when salt became an issue. In a hot country such as India, salt is vital. It replaces minerals in the body lost while sweating, and everyone, e… Read More
2018-06-18 16:40
Many food lovers have special place for peanut butter in their heart. It specially tastes great when paired with fruit jellies and slice of bread. The peanut butter just melts in mouth and h… Read More
2018-06-05 08:37
The Empire State Building in New York stands out as an engineering feat and an architectural gem. It all came about because of a race. At the height of the Great Depression, car magnate Walt… Read More
2018-06-01 08:34
Buy now! Pay later! Get rich quick! For almost a decade in the 1920s, these words echoed through New York’s Wall Street, America’s financial center, and caused many to rush to bu… Read More
2018-05-30 08:26
Oh, no! When Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming entered his lab in London, England, on September 3, 1928, he found that one of the samples of bacteria he was growing had been left open. Fl… Read More
2018-05-28 08:20
The word “robot” was first used in 1921 in a stage play, but the first really useful robot wasn’t invented until 1927. Televox, built by American engineer Roy Wensley, had… Read More
2018-05-25 08:15
When he was a young teen, Frederick Banting’s best friend died of diabetes. Banting was devasteted. The disease had left her unable to digest important nutrients in food. Banting becam… Read More
2018-05-24 16:16
What is that yummy thing that comes in a square box but is round in shape? any guesses? Let me give you some more cues the aroma of the hot bread takes away your senses, it’s cheesy, s… Read More
2018-05-22 07:54
If it hadn’t been for a car accident, King Tutankhamen’s tomb might not have been found, and we might never have learned about a young and little-known Egyptian pharaoh who lived… Read More
2018-05-13 17:06
As a professor of agriculture in Tuskegee, Alabama, George Washington Carver saw how hard life was for Black farmers. Most grew cotton, which takes more nutrients out of the soil than other… Read More
2018-05-11 17:00
It was the most famous and deadliest epidemic in the world’s history. Between 20 and 50 million people died from the 1918 influenza, or about 1.1 to 2.8 percent of the world’s po… Read More
2018-05-10 16:54
New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford was already famous for his work with atoms. He knew that an atom has a nucleus (center) with a positive charge and that the nucleus is surrounded by t… Read More
2018-05-10 08:19
Did he or didn’t he? That’s the question historians and scientists have asked about Robert E. Peary’s claim that he was first to reach the North Pole. Even though the New Y… Read More
2018-05-09 16:45
Russia was in revolt! Years of anger and frustration toward the tsars (rulers) of Russia triggered a series of revolutions. The tsars had enormous wealth, while much of the Russian populatio… Read More
2018-05-08 16:39
World War I was sparked by the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife by a Serbian activist. But the seeds of the horrific fouryear conflict that engu… Read More
2018-05-08 16:35
For a long time, scientists had been trying to understand the atom, the basic unit of all matter. When Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, announced in 1913 that the atom had a nucleus (center)… Read More
2018-05-07 16:23
On April 14, 1912, a cool, star-studded night, the Titanic was on its way from Southampton, England, to New York City when it hit an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The massive… Read More
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