Lindsborg, Kansas, USA – January 21, 2016 – Head Cross Country and Track and Field coach, Aaron Yoder, has recently set the World Record for the fastest mile, backwards; on November 23, 2015 Yoder ran a mile backwards in 5 minutes and 54.25 seconds. Photo: Head Cross Country and Track and Field coach, Aaron Yoder, has recently set the World Record …

New York, NY, USA – January 20, 2016 – Architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht own the world’s largest collection of disposable plastic coffee cup lids; under Louise Harpman’s bed, in acid-free boxes, there are superior double-walled, climate-controlled and UV-protected cases filled to the brim with plastic coffee cup lids; over 550 to be exact, which sets the new world record …

Tornesch, Germany – January 13, 2016 – The Guinness World Records world record for the largest number of drones kept airborne simultaneously has been broken by a team of Intel engineers and Ars Electronica Futurelab; the record saw 100 drones taking off in unison in Flugplatz Ahrenlohe in Tornesch, Germany, thus setting the new world record for the Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Oh My God — Amazing Facts: The Universe is an amazing place and there’s a lot of things that we will never know. Here is a collection such facts to improve children’s knowledge base. 182-member Family 123 -year old Malan Devi died in her village, Wazidiwal, six kilometers from Phagwara in Rajasthan (North-western India). She is survived by a 182-member family, which comprises …

Small add-on devices could allow your smartphone to take pregnancy tests or monitor diabetes, scientists say. Researchers at the Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT), University of Hanover, Germany, have developed a self-contained fibre optic sensor for smartphones with the potential for use in a wide variety of biomolecular tests, including those for detecting pregnancy or monitoring diabetes. According to …

Debunking earlier theories that our brains go into a steady decline as we age, researchers have found that the human brain works slower in old age but only because it has stored more information over time. “If you think linguistic skill involves something like being able to choose one word given another, younger adults seem to do better in this …

May 19: When you think of having a child, the first thing that crosses your mind is the state of your finances. But, if you are a German worker, you do not have to think much about juggling your expenditure heads to cater to your child’s needs. Not only does the state pay for the child’s education, the German Constitutional …

सुहास गोपीनाथ — आज हम आपको मिलवायेंगे दुनिया के Youngest CEO से. CEO (Chief Executive Officer) यानि किसी company का सबसे प्रमुख अधिकारी, कहने की बात नहीं है कि यह एक बहुत ही जिम्मेदारी भरा पद है. और इस पद तक पहुचते-पहुँचते बाल सफ़ेद हो जाते हैं. जब पहली बार मेरे मन में ये सवाल आया कि भला दुनिया का सबसे …

A revolutionary ‘smart’ cane that enables the visually impaired to instantly identify friends and family may soon be available. The ‘XploR’ mobility cane, being developed by Birmingham City University students Steve Adigbo, Waheed Rafiq and Richard Howlett, uses smartphone technology to recognise familiar faces from up to 10 metre away. The cane also features Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality to …

There are two kinds of beavers: the American and the European. The European beaver, found in Norway, Poland, Germany and France, lives in burrows. But the American beaver builds a dam across a stream or lake to construct his home or lodge. The lodges are made of huge logs of trees. The American beaver constructs solid dams and lodges because …