For their fast colour-changing capabilities Chameleons are famous. It is a frequent misunderstanding that they hide from the background. In fact, chameleons mostly change colour in order to manage temperatures or to signals to other chamaleons. Since chamaleons cannot produce their own body
Human brain may be an even more powerful computer than before thought. Reseachers and medical experts says that Microscopic branches of brain cells that were once thought to basically serve as mere wiring may actually behave as mini computers. Human Brain is the most powerful computer known. It possesses about 100 billion neurons with roughly […]
How many pixels would the human eye likely have? It turns out, someone smart used some pretty complex math and (assuming 20/20 vision) got to 576 megapixels. 576 megapixels is roughly 576,000,000 individual pixels, so at first glance, it would seem that we could see way more than an 8K TV has to offer. But […]
There are two kinds of water: salt water and fresh water. Salt water contains large quantities of salt, while fresh water has a dissolved salt concentration of less than 1%. Only fresh water can be used as drinking water. Water is the only substance on earth that is found naturally in three forms: liquid, solid and […]
DNA is the acronym for deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA and RNA are the two types ofnucleic acids the code for genetic information. DNA is a double-helix molecule built from four nucleotides: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).Even though it codes for all the information that makes up an organism, DNA is built using […]
Oxygen gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless.It’s usually purified by fractional distillation of liquefied air, but the element is found in many compounds, such as water, silica, and carbon dioxide. Oxygen was the atomic weight standard for the other elements until 1961 when it was replaced by carbon 12. Oxygen made a good choice for […]