Science

Rainbows are one of the most fascinating and mysterious beauties our nature has to offer. What if we wouldn’t know that they appear because of the simple combination of rain and sun? Some people nowadays still believe that you can find a treasure when you are following the rainbow until […]

This article is stored and also gets transferred to your PC as a string of multiple millions of ones and zeros. Believe it or not but in the number Pi, somewhere far behind the dot, you will find this exact millions of numbers long string. So why is that? The […]

On this week’s article on curiosity, science I will present you “Torriropsis Nutricula jellyfish” also known as the immortal jellyfish. As the nickname suggests, this animal has one of the coolest superpowers: Immortality. However, this power is often more theoretical then practical in nature but before I get to deep […]

The Doppler effect occurs when the movement of an observer relative to a source causes a change in wavelength or frequency. Discovered by Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1803, this phenomenon is experienced in many different ways, such as when an ambulance passes you by and you hear an audible […]

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that affect animals. Occasionally, coronaviruses have been known to move from animals to humans. The coronavirus we’re talking about today is a new virus, which causes an illness called COVID-19. How did the coronavirus outbreak start?It’s not completely clear how the outbreak started, but it’s […]

The science of everything!Broadly, physics involves the study of everything in physical existence, from the smallest subatomic particles to the entire universe. Physicists try to develop conceptual and mathematical models that describe interactions between entities (both big and small) and that can be used to extend our understanding of how […]

Welcome back on Curiosity.gr. In today’s article I want to talk about a very interesting social phenomena called the Streisand-effect. This effect is named after the American entertainer Barbra Streisand and occurred first in the year 2003 when some photographers took pictures from the coast of California with a helicopter […]

We, humans, are something special. We are mammals. But we are among the mammals basically the only ones who have eyebrows. The reason for that is quite simple. We don’t wear fur. In the meantime, we even have hardly any hair left on our bodies. Therefore, of course, we need […]

Everybody loves snow; just seeing it falling from the sky, building either a snowman or a small snow cave out of it as an adult or child. The felling of watching snow falling down from the sky out of your window. Meanwhile, you are snuggled down in your blanket and […]

Hello and welcome back to Curiosity.gr. In today’s article I want to tell you a little bit more about quantum computers, a new sort of computers with a very high potential. To understand how a quantum computer works, you first have to understand how a normal computer works. The basic […]