Video calling has become more and more convenient thanks to modern technology. One only needs a smartphone with a camera and an Internet connection to chat live with another person in other parts of the world. There are already several chatting apps capable of this...
Category: History
Every science textbook describes Marie Curie as a woman of many firsts: the first woman in Europe to receive a Ph.D. in physics, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her pioneering research in radioactivity, and the first person ever to win two...
Alan Turing is widely known to be that mathematician, logician and cryptographer who was responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II, which was crucial in the victory of Allies in the war in Europe. He also paved the way for the...
I had lived my entire life thinking that Agapito Flores, an alleged electrician from the Philippines, is the first to invent the fluorescent lamp. As my elementary teachers had taught me, the term ‘fluorescent’ came from its inventor’s last name ‘Flores’, only inserted with a...