We all feel the occasional sting in our stomach when someone we know gets incredibly lucky with something we wouldn’t mind ourselves. We all experienced envy in our lifes, most of us probably more than we feel comfortable with, but why is that ? Envy is typically seen as a […]
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Hello and welcome back on Curiosity.gr. In today’s article I want to talk about the Fermi Paradox. There are innumerable galaxies in the universe, which each contain endless stars and planets. Only our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a hundred thousand light years wide and consists of up to three […]
Hello and welcome back on Curiosity.gr. In today’s article I want to talk about mathematics. Would mathematics exist without humans? Is it written in the Universe and a natural part of it? Or is it just an artificial human-made language like English, German or Greek? What exactly is mathematics? Well, […]
On this episode of science I will present you one of the most beautiful looking but also powerful natural phenomena: The fire whirls. It is also known as the fire devil or fire tornado. This phenomena accrues when intense rising heat and turbulent wind conditions combine to form whirling eddies […]
Thunder and lightning storms occur when warm, moist air rises quickly to form cumulonimbus clouds. The air and water in these clouds start rubbing against each other. This builds up electricity between the cloud and the ground, eventually resulting in a flash of lightning. Thunder occurs when energy from lightning […]
Hello and Welcome back on Curiosity.gr. In this article I want to talk about time traveling, how it works and why you actually travel in time every day. As the “normal” three dimensions we know, time is a dimension too. But while we can freely move in our room dimensions, […]
Pistol shrimps, also known as snapping shrimps, are crustacean in the family of Alpheidae. Their two front claws are different sizes, with one being notably larger than the other. This large claw holds the pistol shrimp’s superpower. When a pistol shrimp senses prey is nearby, it will open the top […]
The English scientist, Isaac Newton discovered a law about gravity in the late 1600s. He discovered that the force of gravity between objects depends on the amount of material they contain. The greater the mass of an object, the greater is its force of gravity. For example, the Sun, which […]
Starfish belong to the tribe of the “echinoderms” – their relatives are the sea urchins. They can be found in many seas, most of them are found near the coast. They take in their food, which consists of snails or mussels, through a mouth opening facing downwards. This is a […]
Almost 8,500 objects have been orbited since 1957. These include 75 satellites for the GPS network, the international space station ISS, space telescopes and satellites from private companies. Since it is still comparatively expensive to bring a satellite into earth orbit at a price of around half a million euros […]