The name dinosaur is derived from two Greek words: deinos meaning ‘fearfully great’ and sauros meaning ‘lizard’. It was coined by the English anatomist Richard Owen in 1842. Owen recognized that the huge fossilized bones unearthed at several places in nineteenth-century England were markedly different from the bones of the other existing reptiles.
Antarctica has four bases with their own city dialling codes. The city code of Davis Base is 10, Mawson Base is 11, Casey Base is 12 and Macquarie Base is 13. The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672. To dial Antarctica, say from India, you will have to dial the international exit code,…
A modem is a device that enables a computer to transmit data over telephone or cable lines. The word modem is actually a contraction of the words modulator and demodulator (MOdulator/DEModulator). Modems are usually classified by the amount of data they send in a specific unit of time expressed generally in bits per second.
Montreal is an island city on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada. The city was first named by European settlers as Ville Marie. However, the city is now named after one of the famous geographical features of the island, a hill consisting of three peaks named Mount Royal. It is situated at a height of…
Scientists have partially reversed the ageing process in mice using genetic engineering. These mice showed signs of new growth of the brain and testes, improved fertility, and the return of a lost cognitive function. Scientists from Harvard and the University of New South Wales are working on the various aspects of the study. They are…
The Republic of Nauru is a small island country in Micronesia in the central Pacific. Covering an area of just 21 square kilometres, it is the world’s smallest republic. Nauru is a phosphate rock island having rich deposits near the surface. Its economy is essentially dependent on the phosphate deposits originating from droppings of sea…
