Super-tall skyscrapers: Scaling new heights; challenging the ‘vertical limit’


With the economic and industrial growth towards the end of 19th century, high-rise buildings became indispensable. More and more lofty buildings have taken shape since then. The trend still continues, as if there’s no vertical limit for skyscrapers!

When the world’s highest waterfall was accidentally discovered

The world’s highest waterfall remained unknown to mankind for years on end. Here’s the short story of how it was discovered quite accidentally in absolutely singular circumstances!

Try catching two or more balls repeatedly after tossing them into the air while keeping one or more in the air at the same time; and chances are that one or more of them will have dropped on the ground before you can say, ‘What ho!’ Master jugglers do this easily by employing mathematical formula--and of course, experience!

There are three species of zebra and all of them have black and white stripes all over their bodies. Naturalists attribute three reasons behind zebras getting their stripes in the course of evolution.

When the greatest volcanic explosion shook the Earth!

Read the minute by minute flashback of the historic event when the Krakatau (or Krakatoa) volcano of Indonesia archipelago displayed its fierce, killer temperament.

Owl: The night watchman and predator of plundering pests

Many countries the world over have tried innumerable ways to get rid of plague-causing rats, but to no avail. So, they have formed a special task force for this job – team of owls!

The animal second in intelligence to man is the dolphin. It has astounded as well as fascinated naturalists with its brain power time and time again. The recent escapades of this brainy aquatic creature that have come to light have a distinct ‘believe-it-or-not’ flavour!

The population of India’s national animal Tiger has reduced substantially over the last few years. In
order to know their present population and distribution, an extensive nationwide census is underway
in India. In this challenging exercise, modern scientific technology is playing a major role

If the most violent fish of the deep seas is the great white shark; then, the most ferocious fresh water
fish is definitely the piranha. This South American fish is meagre-sized at just 9 inches, but with its
razor sharp teeth, it can finish off any prey within minutes.

Before the white settlers arrived, there were millions of kea parrots in New Zealand. Today there are
just a few thousand. During the past 150 years, millions of kea have been gunned down. Why? Read
the surprising reason in this article

The human tongue has only two functions – talking and tasting. In contrast to this, the tongue of some animals is their very life line and life support. They not only get nourishment with their tongue but their tongues are also different in accordance with the various types of food they consume.

Passenger pigeons: Will they fly again after 100 years of extinction?


The passenger pigeons, capable of filling the sky with their huge flock and rendering the atmosphere echoing with their thunderous flapping of wings, became extinct due to the foul deeds of man. Today, it is man himself who is going to bring about their reincarnation with the help of modern science.

How did colossal dinosaurs get such long necks?


Some species of herbivorous dinosaur had necks six times longer than that of the giraffe. What was the reason for this great length and why did the neck not crumple down in a heap? The answers, have finally been found.

The bizarre shapes and sizes of bird beaks...

There are thousands of species of birds in the world, and their methods of getting food are more or less different from one another. Consequently, each bird has been endowed with a specially designed bill which it uses as a tool to obtain its nourishment.

T-90 Bheeshma is the main battle tank of the Indian Army, and a game changer in the true sense of the word. It is matter of great pride that Bheeshma tank forms the striking arm of our army.

ALL ABOUT ISS:
Measuring 108.5 metres in width and 72.8 metres in length, 450-tonne International Space Station (ISS), the largest manmade real estate complex in the space, is the fruit of joint efforts of 16 countries including the U.S.A. and Russia. Hence, its identity has not been linked with any particular country.

A few hundred million years ago primeval ancestors of blue whale inhabited the seas. Eventually, they left the marine world to become terrestrial but strangely returned to inhabit marine world after some tens of million years later. Here’s a synopsis of the evolution of blue whale--

Though it is every living creature’s destiny to fight for its life as and when necessary, the case of the tiny hummingbird is slightly different. When this tiny bird goes to sleep at night its fight against
death begins. If it wakes from its sleep in the morning then it lives on but if it does not, then its sleep turns into eternal sleep.

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