If you ever want to visit an icy desert than you should read more about Antarctica, which is the fifth largest continent on our planet, but still we cannot live there because of the extreme cold conditions out there. It has been surveyed that Antarctica […]
How do MP3 players work?
MP3 technology has taken the world by storm and has been readily accepted by people. MP3 players have no moving parts and deliver high-quality sounds. They are portable and can be carried by those that love their music on the go. An MP3 player consists […]
How did Hawaii get its name?
Hawaii was the last state to become part of the United States of America and was declared the 50th state on 21st August 1959. Hawaii is a chain of islands and got its name from the inhabitants. The local inhabitants used to call their home […]
Who invented Electric Guitar?
The first successful guitar that was electrically amplified was developed by George Delmetia Beauchamp in the year 1931 along with Paul Barth and Adolph Rickenbacker. Beauchamp had also invented other musical instruments and was one of the founders of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker […]
Who invented HTML?
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is an important markup language used for web page creation. HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British Engineer, Computer Scientist and Professor at MIT in 1991. Post his invention Tim Berners-Lee came to be known as the ‘father of web’. […]
Why earth has seasons?
The main reason behind the seasons on earth is it’s tilt on its axis. Axis is an imaginary line passing through the poles. 23.5 degree angle is formed to the perpendicular of the orbit of earth and axis always points in the same direction throughout […]
Why do different colors absorb different amounts of heat energy?
We see a particular an object having a particular color. This is because it absorbs all the colors coming towards it in a light spectrum and the color which it reflects it appears of that color. Different objects absorb different wavelengths and the heat energy. […]
What are the effects of low cholesterol?
We always talk and hear about the effects of high cholesterol, but we hardly think and discuss about the low blood cholesterol levels. Recent studies and researches tell us that low cholesterol level can be very harmful as in the case of high cholesterol level. […]
Who invented Glow Stick?
Glow sticks are plastic tubes containing chemical substances that are isolated and that produce light due to a chemical reaction. There are several patents for glow sticks and the earliest ones dates back to June 1965 which lists Eugene Daniel Guth and Bernard Dubrow as […]
Why does ice stick to your skin?
To know about why ice stick to your skin we have to first know about the formation of ice. On the outer level we say that when we cool the water to certain temperature it turns to ice but on molecular basis it is something […]