On 20 November 2011, one of the four pairs of Vivek Express trains began serving between Dibrugarh in Assam and Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, joining the Northeast with the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent. The Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express currently holds the record for being the longest running train route in the country in terms of both distance…
American geologist Bruce Heezer and oceanic cartographer Marie Tharp were researchers at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, New York. In the 1950s, they expedited with a crew across the Atlantic to gather data about the ocean floor from the ocean surface. The observations proved that there was in fact a chain of mountains, as high as halfway till the surface, under the…
The discovery of Teflon, a polymer chemically known as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), was sheer coincidence, and yet a revolutionary one. The man behind the discovery was an American chemist named Dr Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994), who was then working for DuPont, an American chemical company. In the year 1938, Dr Plunkett was conducting a coolant gas…
The science and study of laughter is called Gelotology. The term originates from the Greek word gelos, which means laughter. Gelotology studies how laughing can affect human body and mind. Gelotology was founded by William Finley Fry, Jr. (1924–2014), a former Associate Professor at Stanford University. He went on to found the International Society of Humor…
Polar bears are clad with thick, waterproof fur and their feet are partly-webbed. It is these features that make them strong swimmers. Their fur and feet help them to swim long distances through the icy waters of the Arctic.
About 1,000 movies are produced in India every year, most of which are produced in Mumbai (called Bollywood), as compared to Hollywood which makes around 600 films annually. Movies of other regional languages are produced mostly in their respective states. Movies made in the languages Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, etc. among others have gained recognition both within and outside their domains.
