Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, passed away one week after Steve Jobs. Despite his significant contributions to the field of computer science and his impact on nearly every software system in use today, his death received little attention due to being overshadowed by Steve… Read More »
During World War II, the Nazis developed a secret weapon named the “Schweres Wasser” (Heavy Water) which was a isotope of water that was enriched in the hydrogen isotope deuterium. This heavy water was used in the production of nuclear weapons but the allies became aware of this and they launch an operation to sabotage… Read More »
A 19-year-old American teenager, with no knowledge of the Scottish language, wrote virtually the entire Scottish version of Wikipedia, comprising over 57,000 articles. Here’s a highlight of the type of edits that were done In Greek meethology, the Minotaur wis a creatur wi the heid o a bull an the body o a man or,… Read More »
Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961. According to their story, they were driving home from a vacation in Canada when they saw a strange object in the sky. They said that the object followed them, and eventually, they were taken aboard the spaceship… Read More »
Oumuamua is an object that passed through the solar system in 2017 and was initially thought to be an asteroid. However, its unusual shape and trajectory led some scientists to suggest that it could be an alien spacecraft. Scientists from the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) proposed that Oumuamua could be a lightsail, a… Read More »