Discovering minerals
Minerals are naturally occurring inorganic substances that have specific chemical compositions and physical properties of their own. They are solid...
Discovery
The discovery of DNA
A person’s DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule that functions as a storehouse of genetic information. The discovery...
Baudhayana: The man who discovered ‘pi’
Ancient Indian mathematician Baudhayana is perhaps the first person to calculate the value of ‘pi’. In his text Baudhayana Shulba...
Raindrops aren’t tear-shaped
What if snowflakes actually looked like pizza slices and hail stones resembled pretzels? In a research conducted as a part of...
The longest underwater mountain range in the world
American geologist Bruce Heezer and oceanic cartographer Marie Tharp were researchers at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, New York. In the...
The discovery of Teflon
The discovery of Teflon, a polymer chemically known as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), was sheer coincidence, and yet a revolutionary one. The...
