The smaller shadow will be in Colombo since it is closer to the equator than Kashmir. The shadow will be the smallest …

Most of the constellations we know have etymological connections to Middle Eastern, Greek and Roman cultures. They ide…

http://clipart-library.com/  Short answer: You can slip, slide and fall. Detailed answer: Friction is a resisting force…

There are two factors that help stability to a moving bike. 1. its rotating wheels create angular momentum and 2. when …

Excessive ingestion of fluorides during early childhood may damage tooth-forming cells, leading to a defect in the ena…

When you hold a seashell up to your ear, you hear the quiet roar of waves crashing on a distant beach. This is because …

Any gas introduced into a vacuum will be at a higher pressure than that vacuum. Gas expands until its outward pressure …

The shell of a chicken egg is made up of calcium carbonate. When an egg is soaked in vinegar for a long time, it start…

The two types of cells that exist in nature are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Plant and animal cells both belong t…

The human scalp contains an average of about 100,000 individual hairs, each of which is approximately one-fifth of a m…

Hair develops from the cells of the hair bulb, which divide rapidly. The cells of the hair bulb move upwards as new ce…

A hair is a tube filled with cells and pigment with spaces in between. Normally, the spaces are filled with fluid and …

The human eye sees when light stimulates the sensitive cells on the retina. The retina is made up of ‘rods’ and ‘cones’…

The Milky Way is a flat spiral galaxy. It has four spiral arms radiating out of the central cluster of stars. Our sola…

The blind spot of the human eye is where the nerve endings of the photoreceptor cells covering the entire retina join …

It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it. The reason for this is that it has some of the saltiest wate…

Only the male cricket makes calls with its familiar chirp. Crickets communicate with each other by making a different s…

A match consists of three basic parts: the head, the tinder and the handle. The head contains more than twenty chemica…

Oxygen at 65% is the most abundant and carbon is next at 18.5%. 96.2% of the body weight of a human comes from ‘organi…

Diffusion is the movement of molecules from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration. Osmos…