Have you ever wondered how this world work?
In each and every thing we do, there is some or the other phenomenon involved that someway or the other influence our life in amazing ways. Science is what we do, what we feel, what we breathe. Its all about Science that we are able to do our routine works.
Have you ever wondered what will happen if concept of friction is eliminated?
Difficult right?
Here in this article we are going to address some of those amazing facts about science that are surely going to blow your mind. Get ready to impress your friends and peers with these amazing facts about science and grab their attention.
AMAZING FACT #1 : The Acid in our stomach is strong enough to dissolve the stainless steel. AMAZING ! Isn't it?
We all know what acid is present in our stomach. If you didn't then you must know that its highly corrosive Hydrochloric Acid or HCl. The acid has a score between 2 to 3 on a pH scale and such a score make it one of the highly corrosive acid after Sulphuric Acid which is generally the KING OF ACIDS.
This acid present in our stomach also affects our body and the stomach lining all by itself by secreting a solution of alkaline bicarbonate. It is also an amazing fact to know that the lining which is destroyed by the acid renews itself entirely every 4 days.
AMAZING FACT #2 : It is nearly impossible to detect Polar bears infrared cameras
The polar has layers of fur and fat trap their body heat well below their skin, hence leaving the outer layer of the body at roughly the same temperature as the snow around them. But, the thermal cameras works on the principle of detecting the heat lost by a subject as infrared, but this as we have read, thermal heat is trapped beneath their thick layer of blubber under the skin.
AMAZING FACT #3 : Did you know that bones in Babies have around 100 more bones than adults
You will be astonished by the amazing fact that the babies have approximately 300 bones at birth, with cartilage between many of them. These extra bones provides them with the extra flexibility to help them pass through the birth canal and also allows for the rapid growth. As the time passes, many of the bones fuse with increasing age, leaving 206 bones that make up an average adult skeleton.
AMAZING FACT #4 : It is amazing to know that 20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest
We all know that our atmosphere is made up of roughly 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen along with other gases in small amount. All the living organisms on this planet except few on Earth need oxygen to survive, converting it into carbon dioxide as they breathe. To our fortune, we have plants that continuously replenish our planet’s oxygen levels through photosynthesis.
This task of helping all of us to survive lies the vast 5.5 million square kilometres (2.1 million square miles) cover of the Amazon rainforest which gives a significant proportion of the Earth’s oxygen, absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide at the same time.
AMAZING FACT #5 : Even a small teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons
You must have heard about the neutron stars. If you hadn't then, you must know that these are the celestial object which have a very small radius (typically 30 km) and have insanely high density, composed predominantly of highly compacted closely packed neutrons.
Neutron stars are thought to form by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion, subject to the condition that the star is insufficiently massive to produce a black hole.
Although it is impossible to even imagine our presence in the vicinity of a neutron star as its high gravitational pull will shred our bodies into atoms within seconds. But, if somehow, we took out a spoonful of neutron star, then it would weigh around massive six billion tons. Isn't it an amazing fact about science?
AMAZING FACT #6 : The Chalk comprises trillions of microscopic plankton fossils
There were tiny single-celled algae known as coccolithophores that have lived in Earth’s oceans for about 200 million years. These single-celled algaes surrounded themselves with small minuscule plates of calcite (coccoliths). Just about 100 million years ago, conditions were favourable for these single-celled algaes to accumulate in a thick layer coating ocean floors in a white ooze. As soon as the further sediment built up on top, the pressure caused compression which caused the coccoliths to form rock, thus creating chalk deposits.
Coccolithophores are just one of various prehistoric species that have been immortalised in fossil form, whose age can predicted by studying the type of rock in which their fossil is found.
AMAZING FACT #7 : A Flea can accelerate much faster than a Space Shuttle
A flea when jumps can reach a height of more than 8 cm (3') within a insanely millisecond time. As we all know that acceleration is the change in speed of an object over time and is often measured in ‘g’s, where 1 g equal to the acceleration caused by gravity on Earth (9.8 metres/32.2 feet per square second).
Keeping that concept in mind, Fleas experience an amazingly insane 100 g acceleration as compared to that of a Space Shuttle whose highest acceleration is at around 5 g. The secret behind such amazing acceleration of flea is the stretchy rubber-like protein which allows it to store and release energy similar to a spring.
AMAZING FACT #8 : It is possible to trap lasers in a water
Yes! you got it right. Laser can be easily trapped in water. Did you know how it happens?
Have you read about Total Internal Reflection during your school time in which when light travels through a dense material and hits boundary of a material which has lesser density and if the critical angle is shallow enough, then, the light will reflect. This is exactly how the fibre optic cables work.
AMAZING FACT #9 : A single solar flare can release energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs
Did you know about Solar Flairs? These normally occurs when the magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is released all of a sudden. On the Sun's surface are huge magnetic loops called prominences and when these solar energy is released it is closely equivalent to energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs.
For a reference, the atomic bomb that created havoc in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was only of 0.02 megatonne of TNT.
AMAZING FACT #10 : Cats always lands on their feet
Have you ever watched a cat falling from a height? If not, the next time you do, just note that no matter from where they fall, in most of the cases they lands on their feet, thanks to their inbuilt balancing system.
Cats have an inbuilt balancing system called the “righting reflex” that allows them to orient themselves and land on their feet
AMAZING FACT #11 : An egg resembles a crazy jellyfish underwater
Its quite messy to have a cracked egg on the ground specially when you hate its foul smell. But, did you know that the same egg acts differently under 18 metre below the ocean surface. This is how it looks.
This happens because the pressure beneath the 60 feet water is approximately 2.8 times the atmospheric pressure which holds the egg together like an invincible egg shell. Isn't it amazing????
AMAZING FACT #12 : To our surprise, Water can boil and freeze at the same time
Although it sounds impossible but it is true. The temperature and pressure at which it happens is called the Triple Point which is just suitable for all the three forms of water to co-exist at the same time in a thermodynamic equilibrium.
AMAZING FACT #13 : You can see even without your Glasses
Is your eyesight weak? Or you are not able to see without your glasses?
If that is so, you must be missing this amazing fact that can change things for you. Did you know that you can even see without your glasses if you forget to bring them with you. Look how this happens.
All you need to do is make a pinhole with your hand, which will help you focus the light coming into your retina. Although it will not give a 20/20 vision but yeah you will feel the difference.
AMAZING FACT #14 : There is only one letter that doesn't Appear in Periodic Table
You must have read the English Alphabetical series as well as the Periodic Table during your School. But did you ever noticed that there is only one Alphabet out of the 26 Alphabets in English that do not appear in the Periodic Table. Did you Know which one it is?
Well, Its J. You can go and cross check your self.
AMAZING FACT #15 : You will be surprised to know that Bananas are Radioactive in Nature
.
Yeah its true! Its safe as well! You need to eat 10,000,000 bananas at once in order to die of radiation poisoning. So, you need to relax about that. But the fact that they are radioactive comes from its chemical composition wherein Potassium is present. Since Potassium decays, it always makes the banana slightly radioactive.
In each and every thing we do, there is some or the other phenomenon involved that someway or the other influence our life in amazing ways. Science is what we do, what we feel, what we breathe. Its all about Science that we are able to do our routine works.
Have you ever wondered what will happen if concept of friction is eliminated?
Difficult right?
Here in this article we are going to address some of those amazing facts about science that are surely going to blow your mind. Get ready to impress your friends and peers with these amazing facts about science and grab their attention.
AMAZING FACT #1 : The Acid in our stomach is strong enough to dissolve the stainless steel. AMAZING ! Isn't it?
We all know what acid is present in our stomach. If you didn't then you must know that its highly corrosive Hydrochloric Acid or HCl. The acid has a score between 2 to 3 on a pH scale and such a score make it one of the highly corrosive acid after Sulphuric Acid which is generally the KING OF ACIDS.
This acid present in our stomach also affects our body and the stomach lining all by itself by secreting a solution of alkaline bicarbonate. It is also an amazing fact to know that the lining which is destroyed by the acid renews itself entirely every 4 days.
AMAZING FACT #2 : It is nearly impossible to detect Polar bears infrared cameras
The polar has layers of fur and fat trap their body heat well below their skin, hence leaving the outer layer of the body at roughly the same temperature as the snow around them. But, the thermal cameras works on the principle of detecting the heat lost by a subject as infrared, but this as we have read, thermal heat is trapped beneath their thick layer of blubber under the skin.
AMAZING FACT #3 : Did you know that bones in Babies have around 100 more bones than adults
You will be astonished by the amazing fact that the babies have approximately 300 bones at birth, with cartilage between many of them. These extra bones provides them with the extra flexibility to help them pass through the birth canal and also allows for the rapid growth. As the time passes, many of the bones fuse with increasing age, leaving 206 bones that make up an average adult skeleton.
We all know that our atmosphere is made up of roughly 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen along with other gases in small amount. All the living organisms on this planet except few on Earth need oxygen to survive, converting it into carbon dioxide as they breathe. To our fortune, we have plants that continuously replenish our planet’s oxygen levels through photosynthesis.
This task of helping all of us to survive lies the vast 5.5 million square kilometres (2.1 million square miles) cover of the Amazon rainforest which gives a significant proportion of the Earth’s oxygen, absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide at the same time.
AMAZING FACT #5 : Even a small teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons
You must have heard about the neutron stars. If you hadn't then, you must know that these are the celestial object which have a very small radius (typically 30 km) and have insanely high density, composed predominantly of highly compacted closely packed neutrons.
Neutron stars are thought to form by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion, subject to the condition that the star is insufficiently massive to produce a black hole.
Although it is impossible to even imagine our presence in the vicinity of a neutron star as its high gravitational pull will shred our bodies into atoms within seconds. But, if somehow, we took out a spoonful of neutron star, then it would weigh around massive six billion tons. Isn't it an amazing fact about science?
AMAZING FACT #6 : The Chalk comprises trillions of microscopic plankton fossils
There were tiny single-celled algae known as coccolithophores that have lived in Earth’s oceans for about 200 million years. These single-celled algaes surrounded themselves with small minuscule plates of calcite (coccoliths). Just about 100 million years ago, conditions were favourable for these single-celled algaes to accumulate in a thick layer coating ocean floors in a white ooze. As soon as the further sediment built up on top, the pressure caused compression which caused the coccoliths to form rock, thus creating chalk deposits.
Coccolithophores are just one of various prehistoric species that have been immortalised in fossil form, whose age can predicted by studying the type of rock in which their fossil is found.
AMAZING FACT #7 : A Flea can accelerate much faster than a Space Shuttle
A flea when jumps can reach a height of more than 8 cm (3') within a insanely millisecond time. As we all know that acceleration is the change in speed of an object over time and is often measured in ‘g’s, where 1 g equal to the acceleration caused by gravity on Earth (9.8 metres/32.2 feet per square second).
Keeping that concept in mind, Fleas experience an amazingly insane 100 g acceleration as compared to that of a Space Shuttle whose highest acceleration is at around 5 g. The secret behind such amazing acceleration of flea is the stretchy rubber-like protein which allows it to store and release energy similar to a spring.
AMAZING FACT #8 : It is possible to trap lasers in a water
Yes! you got it right. Laser can be easily trapped in water. Did you know how it happens?
Have you read about Total Internal Reflection during your school time in which when light travels through a dense material and hits boundary of a material which has lesser density and if the critical angle is shallow enough, then, the light will reflect. This is exactly how the fibre optic cables work.
AMAZING FACT #9 : A single solar flare can release energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs
Did you know about Solar Flairs? These normally occurs when the magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is released all of a sudden. On the Sun's surface are huge magnetic loops called prominences and when these solar energy is released it is closely equivalent to energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs.
For a reference, the atomic bomb that created havoc in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was only of 0.02 megatonne of TNT.
AMAZING FACT #10 : Cats always lands on their feet
Have you ever watched a cat falling from a height? If not, the next time you do, just note that no matter from where they fall, in most of the cases they lands on their feet, thanks to their inbuilt balancing system.
Cats have an inbuilt balancing system called the “righting reflex” that allows them to orient themselves and land on their feet
AMAZING FACT #11 : An egg resembles a crazy jellyfish underwater
Its quite messy to have a cracked egg on the ground specially when you hate its foul smell. But, did you know that the same egg acts differently under 18 metre below the ocean surface. This is how it looks.
This happens because the pressure beneath the 60 feet water is approximately 2.8 times the atmospheric pressure which holds the egg together like an invincible egg shell. Isn't it amazing????
AMAZING FACT #12 : To our surprise, Water can boil and freeze at the same time
Although it sounds impossible but it is true. The temperature and pressure at which it happens is called the Triple Point which is just suitable for all the three forms of water to co-exist at the same time in a thermodynamic equilibrium.
AMAZING FACT #13 : You can see even without your Glasses
Is your eyesight weak? Or you are not able to see without your glasses?
If that is so, you must be missing this amazing fact that can change things for you. Did you know that you can even see without your glasses if you forget to bring them with you. Look how this happens.
All you need to do is make a pinhole with your hand, which will help you focus the light coming into your retina. Although it will not give a 20/20 vision but yeah you will feel the difference.
AMAZING FACT #14 : There is only one letter that doesn't Appear in Periodic Table
You must have read the English Alphabetical series as well as the Periodic Table during your School. But did you ever noticed that there is only one Alphabet out of the 26 Alphabets in English that do not appear in the Periodic Table. Did you Know which one it is?
Well, Its J. You can go and cross check your self.
AMAZING FACT #15 : You will be surprised to know that Bananas are Radioactive in Nature
.
Yeah its true! Its safe as well! You need to eat 10,000,000 bananas at once in order to die of radiation poisoning. So, you need to relax about that. But the fact that they are radioactive comes from its chemical composition wherein Potassium is present. Since Potassium decays, it always makes the banana slightly radioactive.
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