Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter/Image: Nasa Flying a helicopter on Earth is a remarkable engineering achievement. Flying one on Mars, where the atmosphere is less than 1% as dense as Earth’s, was once considered nearly impossible. Yet on 19 April 2021, Nasa‘s Ingenuity helicopter achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet, proving that aerial exploration…

They are fast, lethally venomous and highly aggressive. But most important of all, they have been blamed for more human deaths than you could count. Being mentioned here are the Black Mambas, the fastest and deadliest snakes on Earth. They have a slithering speed of up to 12.5 miles per hour, but that is not…

The world’s biggest ocean is also its most doomed one. Now, scientists are worried and they are blaming the tectonic plates for it all. The Pacific Ocean, which is the largest single feature on the surface of the Earth is slowly getting smaller and the irony of it all is as surprising as shocking. Diving…

Researchers established 72 bee colonies across six large organic farms (IStock photo) Only three Hawaiian producers currently meet the United States’ organic honey certification rules, but scientists now say those rules may be stricter than necessary, according to a new study.Researchers have found that honey produced by organically managed bee colonies on farms in the…

Image(s): J. Robert Oppenheimer/Wikipedia Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist from America, who was responsible for directing the scientific work of the Manhattan Project in the Second World War, took command of the project….