“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Sir Isaac Newton (Image: Wikipedia) People usually expect great scientists to leave behind complicated ideas or technical explanations. Equations, theories, discoveries. Things that sound difficult enough to belong inside textbooks. That is partly why this quote from Isaac Newton catches people off guard even now.“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I…

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Mouni Roy and Suraj Nambiar follow each other again after announcing separation; Disha Patani still hasn’t refollowed him

Just days after officially announcing their separation, Mouni Roy and Suraj Nambiar have once again started following each other on Instagram, hinting that the former couple is trying to maintain an amicable equation despite their split.Before the announcement, fans had already begun speculating about trouble in their marriage after noticing that Mouni and Suraj had…

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In 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann found one strange element in uranium residue and accidentally opened the atomic age

The uranium experiment that went wrong triggered the discovery of nuclear fission. Image credit – Wikimedia While conducting some meticulous experiments in Berlin towards the end of 1938, two chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, saw something that defied the scientific laws of the period. Following their bombardment of uranium with neutrons, they analyzed the…

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