Written by Sofiya Shahiwala With Diwali on at full swing, we all are tremendously excited about watching a sky overspread with lighting and colors. However, little do we know about the creative chemistry behind our much so beloved fire-crackers. The fundamental science behind Firework, also known as Pyrotechnics has come a long way since its invention. Dating back to as early as the Song Dynasty in China, local people popularly believed that fireworks were...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala We all know about the logical reason behind the occurrence of waves, typically known as Tide and Ebb. A Tide or Ebb acquires its energy via the gravitational forces. A Tsunami is one such phenomenon which involves waves but obtains the energy from a force which is much distinguished. Today, on...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala World Soil Day is celebrated on the 5th of December every year to spread awareness and advocate individuals about soil, its fertility and the increasing danger towards the degradation of the soil. ‘Mere deshki dharti sona ugle, Ugle, ugle heere moti…’ Just as the saying goes, it is evident that India is...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala Winter is here and as we all know, so is the time for brisk winds and chilly mornings. As we, as children, try to remain under our blankets and sleep a little more before we are forced to go to school, other animals tend to move their places in order to...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala The enthusiastic team of SciKnowTech academy, along with the astronomy expert, Mr. Tanmaye Vyas, organised an informative event at the MegaEdufest in Ahmedabad, India. Mr. Tanmaye Vyas is a well-known Astronomer with extensive experience in teaching as well as astrophysics. It is maintained that more than one lakh people have gotten...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala Back in school, we might have read an insignificant paragraph or two about Viruses. However, little did we know that more than half of us would be researching for those microbial creatures during a Pandemic in 2020… Having done all the research about the outbreak of COVID-19 from our part, let...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala World Earth Day is celebrated on the 22nd of April every year. This day was first celebrated in 1970 to honour Mother Earth and to spread peace. On this day this year, the team of SciKnowTech brings forth a few very interesting facts which might leave you intrigued to know about our...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 across the globe. This year, the theme of World Environment Day 2020 is to celebrate biodiversity. Over a million species are on the verge of extinction, which gives us a very reasonable motive to know a little more about our country’s...
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala Morgan Appel, the Assistant Dean for Education and Community Outreach at UC San Diego Extension said that in today’s constantly changing environment, our youth must be prepared with the fundamentals of STEM teaching. This would make them able enough to solve real-life problems, comprehend information, and gather evidence for taking decisions....
Written by Sofiya Shahiwala Formally defined as a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe, Science in very simple terms is the study of the world around us. Many students consider the subject to be very difficult, thereby considering ‘scientific’ research an even tougher...
