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Written by caryl
Humans are generating and dumping too much trash daily, posing as one of the biggest known environmental threats. And to think that this has been a continuous battle for decades now. Waste or litter finds its way into the ocean and other waterways, affecting water quality, polluting our environment, and spreading diseases, viruses, and parasites. […]
Written by caryl
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, also billed as the “The Greatest Show on Earth,” had been closed down since 2017. The circus started when the Ringling Bros. opened their first circus in 1884 and was later merged with Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth in 1919. Wild live animals were always part […]
Written by Esie
“The Eagle has wings!” radioed Neil Armstrong from the lunar module as he and Buzz Aldrin flew sixty-nine miles above the moon. Four words. There was no doubt of their meaning: The lunar module Eagle had separated from the command module Columbia and was now flying solo. It was ready to descent onto the moon. Big smiles back on Earth, back […]
Written by Esie
Space… it’s dangerous out there: micrometeoroids, radiation, airlessness. And coming home would be no picnic, either. The compact-car-sized space capsule would be greeted by searing white-hot flames as it slammed madly back down to earth. “In designing the command module, the one thing we had to be sure of was that we could keep the […]
Written by semm
A Dyson Sphere is something that our descendants may think of doing in the future to meet their energy needs. The idea behind it is to completely enclose a star to capture all of its energy. At this point it is just science fiction, but it may be possible to actually build one if you […]
Written by caryl
Have you ever wondered what the place known as Hell might really look like? Imagine a world that burns ceaselessly and eternally, with fires that burn forever. Sounds eerie yet cool, right? Finally, getting a glimpse of a world like that is not as far-fetched as we think anymore. For the first time, NASA astronomers […]
Written by guest
Python is a really popular programming language. I’ve been using it for around 2 years. Based in my experience, Python is really fast and easy for beginners. As matter a fact, Python is multi-paradigm, which makes it easier for the beginners to start with. Today, I am going to be explaining step by step, line […]
Written by caryl
Did you know that Mars, commonly referred to as the Red Planet, also experiences quakes? They are called Marsquakes. On May 4, The NASA InSight lander (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations) detected the strongest marsquake ever recorded so far on the red planet. It was estimated to have hit a magnitude 5 on the 1,222nd […]
Written by caryl
Scientists have recently discovered a new species of rainbow-colored fish living deep beneath the ocean’s surface in the waters of the Maldives ocean, home to hundreds of fish species. The rose-veiled fairy wrasse, with its scientific name Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, was found in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” or the ocean layer barely reached by sunlight at […]
Written by caryl
Thousands of people visit local zoos every day because they provide a fantastic opportunity to see and watch the animals housed within enclosures and displayed to the public up close and personal. If you’ve ever been to one, you might have remembered that feeling of being in awe after seeing even the most endangered and […]
Written by guest
I’m a young self-taught programmer and I’m fluent in many programming languages. My parents don’t know much about computers, so I learned coding by YouTube and e-books. Based on my experience, mainly the programming languages are hard, except for a few of them.Also a quick tip: Math won’t leave you aside along your programming journey, […]
Written by Pumpkin
DISCLAIMER: This post is a joke and a response to Pumpkin and the Cookie Scandal of ’21 If you haven’t heard already, on January 18th, 2022 AmmyK wrote an article where she exposed me for using people’s love for cookies in order to gain more likes on my comment. Ever since this exposé dropped, I’ve […]
Written by caryl
After 25 years of development, the James Webb Space Telescope aboard an Ariane 5 rocket was launched into space from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on December 25th, 2021. What an unprecedented breakthrough for astronomy! The James Webb Space Telescope, also referred to as Webb or JWST, is the largest, most complex, and powerful telescope […]
Written by whizkid
In the last lesson we learned about binary numbers, which are the way computers understand numbers. The next thing we will now study is how we can build simple hardware to add numbers. Once we can add numbers, we can do any math operation, like subtraction, multiplication and division that will be covered later. Being […]
Written by whizkid
In this series you will learn how computers work from the ground up. You will learn by actually building it piece by piece (on paper) in a series of weekly articles. If you continue and follow along, you will fully understand how a modern computer operates down to the smallest detail! Let’s Start! Computers only […]
Written by sharkyman
In this post you will learn about the Python programming language. Python is a high-level general programming languages created in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. It was named after the famous show, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Python uses a lot of indentation instead of parentheses/brackets to make the code easier to read. It can be […]
Written by sharkyman
Do you want to learn QBasic? Below is an example of it. The program below accepts two numbers and performs a math calculation on it, similar to a calculator. QBasic stands for Quick Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was created by Microsoft in 1991 and is based on the original BASIC language released […]
Written by sharkyman
Programming, or “Coding” is the way humans are able to communicate instructions to computers. They use special programming languages which take words, and translate them to a format that can be understood by computers. The instructions can be just a few lines, or millions of lines of code to complete a specific task. Once code […]
Written by kidzsearch
All of your life, you have been learning new skills. When you were five years old, someone taught you how to tie your shoes. At age six, you learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. Fast forward to your pre-teen and teen years, and you might know several skateboard tricks, how to do […]