Copernicus was a famous astronomer who lived and worked in Poland. He was the first scientist to propose the first-ever system based on mathematics that planets revolve around the sun. After studying at several universities in Europe, he was made a Canon of the Roman Catholic Church, in the year of 1497.
An shocking 783 million people are living without clean water and 2.5 billion don't have adequate sanitation. Studies reveal this is the main cause for around 700,000 children death every year. Providing a septic and sewer systems needs good infrastructure, time and plenty of energy. Under the circumstances, these cannot be maintained effectively in developing countries.
Men and women are different in many ways in their thought processes, response to surroundings etc. Speaking generally, both genders have their own inclinations on their thought processes. It would be extremely interesting to know how they differ at the workplace.
Tatsunori Iwamura is a professor at the Matsuyama University, in the prefecture of Ehime, Japan whom demonstrated to his students majoring in pharmaceutical studies to make a chemical substance generally known as ecstasy or MDMA, and the drug 5f-QUPIC. These substances are similar to cannabis that was made illegal in Japan since 2014, because it caused road accidents in the country. The motive of the professor was to enhance their knowledge on the topic of pharmaceuticals.
Roman Dinkel, the little boy who is just 2 years old has become the star of the social media because the gritty little feller refuses to give in to the odds that are stacked against him.
If somebody tells you that decaying teeth can be fatal to your very life, you'd think it ridiculous. However, a recent study reveals that the condition can have sweeping implications for a person's entire physical health. It has been widely believed that lack of oral health leads to heart disease.
Spring is in the air! As the weather becomes warmer, flowers begin to bloom and along with it comes honey bees. However, you don't have to be scared of these tiny creatures, even if they happen to appear in a swarm. This only means that the weather has become warm and will continue to be so.
Rose Marie Bentley, hailing from Oregon, left this world at the amazing age of 99, without being in the least aware of her exceptional anatomy. For almost a century, she lived a mundane life with her family, in small-town Molalla, Oregon.
A group of researchers has captured a female python, said to be the largest ever found in the Everglades' Big Cypress National Preserve, and sufficiently large to eat a deer. It is 17 foot long, weighing no less than 140 pounds and was carrying an amazing 73 developing eggs. This would make the creature longer than a single story building.
Doctors are sounding the alarm as new study shows in over the past two decades there are instances of kids ingesting small but powerful magnets, doubling in the amount of battery-related emergency room visits.
The popular weed killer Roundup is used widely in America because it is extremely effective. However, the main ingredient of this herbicide contains glyphosate which is said to cause cancer.
Cecile Eledge, a 61 years age grandmother delivered a baby on March 25 in exceptional circumstances. Surprisingly, the baby she gave birth to happened to be her granddaughter. Intrigued?
India has effectively placed a large domestic spy satellite and several smaller ones belonging to many foreign countries in no less than three separate orbits by means of just one flight. For India, this is a first, and an inexpensive option, something that can enhance its standing for novel affordable options in the field of space.
In Bangladesh, a woman gave birth to a healthy infant boy and returned home happily. About a month later, she got the surprise of her life: she had to get back to the hospital to give birth to fraternal twins.
It was in Florida's Palm Beach Gardens that the first of the few cane toads appeared, and soon it had turned into a virtual exodus of baby toads. Photographs show that at first a small body of these amphibian creatures thronged a swimming pool, scrambled up the walls, before filling the whole hallway of a house, so countless and vast that people residing in the area called for help. Soon these invasive toads found a comfortable home in pleasant Southern Florida.
In recent times, there have been huge outbreaks of the measles epidemic in Ukraine and the Philippines. Last year alone, Europe saw over 80,000 cases of measles and to worsen the condition, this is continuing in Washington, New York, California, Illinois, and Texas.
People know Albert Einstein as someone who created a revolution in Physics with his pioneering theories. However, there are a lot of things that most people don't know about the great physicist. The following are 30 things that we didn't know about him.