We should wash our hands before meals as a protection against infections. We live in a world full of germs (micro-organisms or microbes) and those, which are dangerous to us, prefer to live and multiply in organic material. So it is wise to remove as many as possible before coming into contact with food, which provides an ideal breeding ground. …

Scientists may have an explanation for why men may be better drivers than women, and why women have better attention span and memory. A new brain connectivity study from the US published on Tuesday in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences journal found remarkable differences in the neural wiring of men and women that could give evidence for …

A yawn is a very deep breath and the usual cause of it is that we are tired and our breathing has fallen below what it needed, so we are trying to make it up quickly. The yawn that comes when we see someone else yawning though is due to what is called suggestion. One example of suggestion is when …

Tarundeep Rai, is an Indian Archer, and one of the most famous sportspersons hailing from the North-Eastern Indian region. Early Life He was born on the 22nd of February 1984 at Namchi, the capital of South Sikkim and situated in the Indian state of Sikkim. Right since his birth, Tarundeep found the spirit of sports all around him as he was …

Yews have long been associated with religious worship. So it is likely that churches were originally built near the sacred trees rather than the other way round. These trees live longer than any other species in Europe and can grow to an enormous size. Many are thought to be well over 1,000 years old. Yews were revered by the druids …

Long ago, no score was indicated on French tennis scorecards by an egg-shaped zero. This was unknown as “L’oeuf’, the French word for egg, and the English-speaking players used the name word, but in this case it sounded like love, and has been called love ever since.

T. C. Yohannan — Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan, generally known as T.C. Yohannan has been an Indian Athlete who used to specialize in the Long Jump event and created a National Record in the event that remained unbroken for almost 3 decades. Early Life He was born on the 19th of May 1947 at Kundara village in District Quilon of Kerala. …

The Earth takes one year to circle around the Sun. But the Earth is titled, so that at different times of year some parts receive more sunlight than others. These changes give us the season. On the equator, is no great change in the seasons.

Swapan Mukhopadhay — In North 24 Parganas of West Bengal lives a homegrown social worker Swapan Mukhopadhay. Mama to the children in his destitute home, Swapan is a real hero. Swapan started Centre for Communication and Development (CCD) in 1994 after he saved 365 Indian children from Saudi Arabia who were used in camel racing. It was then that he …

You could say because they are both spacecraft. However, the right answer is that they are both made of ceramics. Saucers are made of ceramic material called porcelain, and the space shuttle is covered with ceramic tiles that resist the intense heat of re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Ceramics are materials like pottery. They are made of substances such as …