Siheli Siyathra
The Dark Forest Theory - A Possible Solution To The Fermi Paradox
The universe is incredibly big and seems full of potential life, with billions of habitable planets. If an advanced civilization had the...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Jun 23, 2022
- 6 min
The Three Cursed Sister Ships
The Titanic. Even more than 100 years after her sinking, everyone still remembers her story. With over 1500 deaths it was the biggest...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Mar 11, 2022
- 4 min
The Complement System
Every living thing needs to fight off other things that want to feast on it. So, as multicellular life evolved, it found a way to defend...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Mar 9, 2022
- 5 min
Were There Alien Civilizations in Our Past?
When we think about alien civilizations, we tend to look into the vast space and far away planets. But we might be giving too little...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Feb 23, 2022
- 2 min
QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE
What Are Atoms? Everything around us is made of small particles called atoms. Two or more atoms form a molecule, which is the basis of...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Wandering Star
In the year 2017, astronomers spotted a bright star hurtling out of the Milky Way. It was travelling at the speed of 2 million miles per...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Nov 29, 2021
- 1 min
FACTS ABOUT THE WORLD
Geckos have tiny hairs at the bottom of their feet. Those allow them to climb onto any surface. Koalas drink by licking water off tree...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min
Why Does a Steel Ship Float?
All sorts of objects can float, regardless of their shapes or sizes. Whether an object is flat, pointy, hollow, or solid does not affect...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
Interesting Facts
When sea otters sense danger, they show the predators their babies. This is basically to make them feel mercy. A Googol is a number...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Nov 17, 2021
- 5 min
What is Intelligence?
Humans are proud of many things, from particle accelerators to poetry to Pokemon. All of them were made possible because of something...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
Fun With Paradoxes
#1 The Liar’s Paradox Consider this sentence: “This sentence is false.” If this sentence is true, then it’s false. But if it’s false,...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
Covid-19 Variants
On November 5th, 2020, the United Kingdom went into lockdown. They were trying to control a spike in Covid-19 cases. And, if you look at...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
The Ring of Fire
There’s been a lot of volcanic activity lately. Mount Mayon in the Philippines erupted in January 2018. It continued for over a month. In...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
The Destruction Of Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius - the volcano that wiped a city off the face of the Earth. Most people think that the worst part of this eruption was the...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
The Fermi Paradox
Are we the only living things in the entire universe? The observable universe is about 90 billion light-years in diameter. There are at...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Story Of The Titanic
On April 14th 1912, at 11.40 pm, RMS Titanic had a terrible accident. By 2.20 pm, the biggest ship of its time had completely disappeared...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 9, 2021
- 2 min
Mythical Creatures From Ancient Greece
The hydra was a seven-headed serpent with four legs. Its middle head could breathe fire while the other heads were extremely poisonous. A...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Sloths: The Laziest Animals To Be Known
Sloths are herbivorous mammals that live in Central and South America. The sloth is related to the armadillos and anteaters. The poor...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Juliane Koepcke
The following is a true story. Juliane Koepcke had just graduated from school when her mother decided to go to the Amazon to meet her...
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Siheli Siyathra
- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
Tantalus and Sisyphus
According to Greek mythology, after mortals died, their souls were sent to the Underworld. Before the gods were created, the Afterlife...
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