The Greatest Scientific Achievements of 2018
December is the month of - best of lists, which is always a challenge - especially when you are ranking the most influential scientific ac...Read More
The Great Minds we lost in 2018 | Knudge Factory
The year 2018 provides a red carpet warm welcome to many scientists, researchers, innovators, inventors. Ranging from neanderthal cave exe...Read More
Why do snakes have forked tongue?
Reason for forked tongue of snakes: Even though snakes have nose, they smell the odours of their prey or mate or surroundings with the ...Read More
Why is Ocean water salty? - Knudge Factory
Reason for salt water in oceans: Several natural processes make the ocean water salty. When it rains, the water droplets reacts with ca...Read More
What is Blood Rain?
Blood Rain: Blood rain has red colored water droplets. There are various reason behind this. Around Sahara Desert, brownish dust and s...Read More
Why does the spicy foods make our nose run?
Reason for nose running while eating food: Our nose consists of tiny hairs and a sticky substance called mucous. During breathing, ...Read More
Why do we get white hair?
Melanin: Our hair is basically made up of keratin, a colorless protein. Hence, before our hair comes out of the skin, it's basical...Read More
Why do snakes shed their skin?
Shedding of skin by snakes: When the snakes grow, it's outer skin layer called epidermis does not grows with it. Hence the snakes ...Read More
Mirage | What is Mirage- Knudge Factory
TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION: Mirage is an illusion in which it appears as if there is water present on the ground. On hot summer days, t...Read More
Can we make an artifical storm?
HAARP: HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme), is an ionospheric research programme involves the use of high freque...Read More
What is Echolocation? How is it Possible for humans to echolocate like Bats?
Echolocation: Some animals like bats and dolphines use sound to see their surroundings. This is called echolocation. They make sounds ...Read More
What is Neuromorphic Computing?- Knudge Factory
Neuromorphic Computing: The world is developing by leap and bounds. Likewise the 21st century is facing a enormous generation developm...Read More
How did lizards stick to the walls?
Sticking of lizards onto the wall: Now, the toes of lizards have tiny hair like structure called setae. The Setae are branched into ti...Read More
Reason for left handers
Left handers: The actual reason for the left handers is still not known. But scientists believe it may be due to some genetic factors....Read More
Amritsar Train Accident - 30 seconds 60 Dead-Whose fault?
Amritsar train incident: The Amristar train accident left 61 died and several other injured when two trains speeding in opposite direc...Read More
Why do newborn babies get jaundice?
JAUNDICE: Our red blood cells can normally live upto 120 days. Once it gets old, it may be broken down into several components. One of t...Read More
Microwave Oven|How do they work? | Working Principle of Microwave ovens
MICROWAVE OVEN - THE WORKING PRINCIPLE: Normally microwave oven consists of a device called magnetron which converts electric energy i...Read More
Why do our eyes turn red in the swimming pool?
Choloramine : Normally pool water is treated with chlorine which is a disinfectant that kills germs in the water. That can't turn ou...Read More
Why do we get nosebleeds?
Epistaxis: The medical term for nosebleed is epistaxis. The most common epistaxis is the anterior epistaxis where the bleeding happens f...Read More
Why blood is red in color but not veins?
If blood is red , Why our veins are blue? Our blood is always red in color whether it is pulsing from our veins or gushing from our woun...Read More
Why do Elephants have more memory?
Memory of elephants: Elephants have relatively high and impressive encephalization quotient. Encephalization quotient is the ratio bet...Read More
Why we love seeing other people fail?
Schadenfreude: Normally, we experience joy at someones misfortune once in a while. Because we are humans. Schadenfreude is an enjoyment ...Read More
Is it bad to hold your urine?
Urinary tract infection: (UTI) Our body has various ways to get rid of unwanted waste materials. One of the ways is urine. Urine is a ...Read More
Why babies can't drink water? - Here's why
Water intoxication: The average human adult is made up of 55 to 60% water. The average baby, on the other hand is made up of 75% water....Read More
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