1. Babies have around 100 more bones than adults Babies have about 300 bones at birth, with cartilage between many of them. This extra flexibility helps them pass through the birth canal and also allows for rapid growth. With age, many of the bones fuse, leaving 206 bones that make up an average adult skeleton. 2. The Eiffel …
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Did Scientists Just Break the Record for Highest-Temperature Superconductor? Maybe.
A superconductor lets electricity flow through it perfectly, without losing any of it. Now, scientists have discovered a superconducting material that works at a possibly record-breaking high temperature, moving a step closer to the goal of achieving such perfection at room temperature. Make things cold enough, and electrons zip through metals without generating any resistance, heating up, …
The Tendency for Order to Emerge from Chaos Was Hidden in the Most Fundamental Equations of Fluid Mechanics
While order often devolves to chaos, sometimes the reverse is true. Turbulent fluid, for example, has a tendency to spontaneously form a tidy pattern: parallel stripes. Though physicists had observed this phenomenon experimentally, they can now explain why this happens using fundamental fluid dynamics equations, bringing them a step closer to understanding why particles behave …
Black Hole Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Nature’s Weirdest Creations
Black holes are so bizarre, they sound unreal. Yet astronomers have found good evidence they exist. Test your knowledge of these wacky wonders. 1. The point thought to represent the center of a black hole is known as a: Ans:- Singularity 2. The Chandrasekhar limit is: Ans:- The maxiumum mass a white dwarf star can …
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This ‘Doomsday Plane’ Can Survive a Nuclear Attack
The U.S. Air Force’s E-4B, otherwise known as the “doomsday plane” may be able to withstand the force of a nuclear detonation. This mostly windowless Boeing 747 was designed during the Cold War, and it indeed looks like a blast from the past, according to CNBC’s Amanda Macias who recently got an inside look at the plane. …
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The Science Times: Albino Panda Spotted in the Wild for the First Time
Pandas are known for their furry black-and-white markings, so wildlife experts were stunned to see an all-white panda with red eyes tramping through a bamboo forest in China last month. This wild giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is the first known albino of its kind. “Judging from pictures, the panda is an albino, 1 to 2 years old,” …
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Scientists Find Possible Traces of ‘Lost’ Stone Age Settlement Beneath the North Sea
Deep beneath the North Sea, scientists have discovered a fossilized forest that could hold traces of prehistoric early humans who lived there around 10,000 years ago, before the land slipped beneath the waves a few thousand years later. The discovery gives the researchers new hope in their search for “lost” Middle Stone Age — or Mesolithic — …
Do you Know How our Universe looks like?
NASA researchers have unveiled a new treasure map of the universe, and — thanks to a neutron-star-hunting telescope aboard the International Space Station — X-ray marks the spot. The new all-sky map, uploaded May 30 to NASA’s website, shows what the cosmos looks like in high-energy X-ray light. X-rays are among the most energetic forms of light in …
Difference between hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
World Thyroid Day is celebrated every year on May 25th across the globe. The significance of this day is to raise awareness about the prevention and treatment of thyroid related disorders. Various campaigns and sessions are conducted in India as well as different parts of the world in order to educate people about the timely …
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Why Are Two Stars In Our Galaxy Suddenly Acting Very Strange ??
There’s a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it’s acting very weird. “AG Draconis,” as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively cool giant and a relatively hot white dwarf — the stellar corpse of a low- to medium-size star. They’re 16,000 light-years away from Earth. (A light-year is the distance light travels …
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RAINBOW
Rainbows form as sunlight shines on droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. The droplets act like prisms, “refracting” or separating light into its component colors and sending them shooting off at a range of angles between 40 and 42 degrees from the direction opposite the sun. Of course, rainbows are no longer scientifically mysterious. …
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS OUR TODAY’s TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: NUTS!!!!!
Perhaps you’ve noticed that, in bowls of mixed nuts, the Brazil nuts always seem to be sitting on top. This is known as the “Brazil nut effect,” and the seemingly mundane phenomenon is actually one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in many-body physics the science that describes large quantities of interacting objects. Among an assortment …
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