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How Afghanistan defeated the Soviet Union

How Afghanistan defeated the Soviet Union

The Soviet Afghan war was a conflict wherein insurgent groups, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government throughout the 1980s. It all started with Soviet deployment in Afghanistan. That triggered a 10-year conflict that completely change the world. The end … Read more

The Real Eve

The Real Eve

Mitochondrial DNA will be passed from mothers to children, both male along with female, with no changes and mutates at a predictable rate, since the origin of the people. Using these facts, some scientists are mastering the mitochondrial DNA to try and trace the origins from the human race. Using this method, scientists have mapped … Read more

This Is What the Earth Looked Like Before the Dinosaurs Era

This Is What the Earth Looked Like Before the Dinosaurs Era

Have you ever wanted to know, how Earth was before the dinosaurs. When we talk about the history of Earth, we often talk about the dinosaurs and what came after them. But before the dinosaurs, all of Earth’s land made up a single continent, called Pangea. The age before the dinosaurs was called the Permian. … Read more

Excavator Factory | Mega Manufacturing

Excavator Factory | Mega Manufacturing

One of the largest and most modern excavator factories in the world is in China. And every ten minutes, a new high-tech monster rolls off the assembly line in Lingang, China. The city is home to the largest and most modern excavator factory in the world. Spread over 1000 square meters of production area, the … Read more

Glory or Death: Climbing Mount Everest

Glory or Death: Climbing Mount Everest

There are more than 200 dead bodies on that can be found towards the peak of Mount Everest. It is the Earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. Every year, people try to climb the top of Mount Everest. The peak of the mountain is 8,848 meters … Read more

The Fake Van Gogh’s Timeline

The Fake Van Gogh’s Timeline

Sunflowers is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. For the Dutch artist, … Read more

Warrior Empire: The Mughals

Warrior Empire: The Mughals

‘Warrior Empire: The Mughals’ pays a tribute to the dynasty of nomadic warriors who created architectural marvels, inventive warfare, material excess and cultural augmentation making 1526 to 1858 India’s most colorful, violent, and majestic era. They indulged their appetite for territorial expansion, spreading their rule throughout the Indian subcontinent. Though they conquered their kingdom with … Read more

The mathematics of weight loss

The mathematics of weight loss

When it comes to weight loss, we all know the formula. Balanced diet and regular exercise equals weight loss. But what if there is something more to the formula? Or in other words, can you look at weight loss from a different angle? Ruben Meerman, who is known as the Surfing Scinetists, tries to educate … Read more