Category: Science

What Happens When Fruits Ripen?

Fruits are more delicious when they are ripened fully, and sometimes exquisite when they are at a certain point of time during the ripening process. So what makes them delicious? Why the fruits ripen and...

How fast a human can run? - Geekswipe

How Fast Can a Human Run?

Among all the biped living organisms on this planet, we humans are always the special kind. Being called as the ‘habitual’ bipeds, we are still one of the slowest bipeds among the primates. Ruling out the...

Why Do Muscles Twitch?

A muscle twitching – sometimes referred as muscle fasciculation or myoclonus – is a benign contraction of a muscle or a group of muscles due to abnormalities in the signal sent to the muscle from...

Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches?

It’s a common myth that pirates wore eye patches to cover their missing eye. Thanks to the movies, most of the pirate fanatics still believe that pirates mostly tend to lose their eyes along with...