Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Animal Life, Biology | No Comments »
The quick answer is that a mature electric eel can produce a shock up to 500 volts at 1 amp of current (500 watts). The eel's organs are capable of ... Read more..Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in General Science, Math | No Comments »
The abacus that we know of today first appeared around 1200 A.D. in China. No one particular person or group is considered to be the inventor as it likely evolved ... Read more..Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Biology | No Comments »
In the late sixteenth century, two Dutch eyeglass makers discovered that objects appear magnified when viewed through multiple convex lenses in a tube. For this simple discovery, Hans Janssen and ... Read more..Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Animal Life, Biology | No Comments »
The Dasypus novemcinctus, or nine-banded armadillo female almost always gives birth to four young of the same sex. The offspring are actually quadruplets that come from one fertilized egg splitting ... Read more..Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in Biology | No Comments »
The dodo bird, or Raphus cucullatus, became completely extinct around 1800. While thousands of these birds were slaughtered for meat, it it generally believed that their demise was primarily due ... Read more..Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Physics | No Comments »
The short answer is because of the nature of the ionosphere of the Earth. The ionosphere consists of several different layers of gases that have become conductive from the bombardment ... Read more..