Category: Technology
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Why do we need to sleep?
During sleep, our body goes through four sleeping stages. This cycle occurs multiple times throughout the time in different lengths. The cycle includes two major phases: 1. Non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep. 2. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
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Telepathy: How?
“I just thought the same thing as you are” “Did you read my mind, that was exactly what I thought” “OMG, You called me while I’m thinking about you” Have you ever got an experience like this? Maybe you just neglected them as random incidents. Or maybe thought deeply how it possible. This is something…
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Science behind the Goosebumps
Everyone experiences tiny bumps on the skin that looks like the skin of a plucked bird, called goosebumps. Goosebumps form for what? In medical terms this phenomenon named piloerection, cutis anserina and horripilation. Most of the time goosebumps form when you are cold. And, they form when you experience a strong emotional feeling like excitement,…
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Mysterious Light show – Aurora
the light show we see is caused by electrically charged particles from space entering the Earth’s upper atmosphere at a very high speed. These electrically charged particles constantly pushing out from the sun (called solar wind), and they travel at between 300 and 500 km per second in all directions. As we revolve around the…
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Types of Smiles
“What if happy cheeky smiling seems impossible to you??” Smiles, our first thought mostly be a smile represents pure happiness. BUT, do you know there are 19 different types of smiles? Among them, only six occur when we’re having a good time, rest will happen when one is in pain, embarrassed, uncomfortable, horrified or even…
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How to spot a psychopath
The complexity of psychological terms for psychopath make confusion same as the psychopath person. Psychological Definition Psychopathy is a condition of a patient who has a mental illness. But it’s not an “official” diagnosis. The correct psychiatric term of this condition is “Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)”. Here in the definition “Antisocial” is not the real…
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Wu Han Virus (COVID-19)
2019-nCoV outbreak is believed to have originated in December,2019 from the Wu Han Seafood and meat Wholesale Market. Coronaviruses are common in many different species of animals, including camels and bats. Rarely, these coronaviruses can evolve and infect humans and then spread between humans. The disease is most likely spreading through contact with infected animals,…
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Worlds’ first solar powered car
A Dutch start-up called Lightyear founded in 2016, has designed an electric vehicle named Lightyear one that runs entirely on solar energy. This has the range of 450 miles out performing Tesla Model S. This will have starting fee of €119,000 (US $135,000) , excluding taxes. For those who truly want to minimize their carbon…
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Bats & Pandemics
Bats are often associated with horror stories and vampires. And they are the only mammal that can fly. Also, bats play important ecological roles like pollinating and dispersing the seeds. In addition, they help to save the fields by eating copious quantities of insects. Bad side is, scientists have pinpointed bats as potential source of…
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PCR technique for virus detection.
What’s PCR means? The Polymerase Chain Reaction or PCR is an essential tool used in molecular biology and diagnostic medicine. What’s PCR used for? The goal of PCR is to make enough copies of a target DNA region that it can be analysed or used in some other way. For instance, those DNA copies amplified…