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How sodium polyacrylate makes water vanish Diaper Science: Super Absorbent Polymers Our most basic expectation from a diaper is that it absorbs the liquid completely and does not give it out. These features ensure that our baby's bottom stays dry until he/she gets a toilet habit. So, how can a diaper have such a magical property? Today, we're going to uncover the secret of a jaw-dropping magic tri...

Nuclear physics inside your smoke detector The Only Man-Made Element You Can Buy at the Market: Americium Radioactivity is a concept that scares many people. If something is radioactive, we often get the impression of something harmful to be avoided. However, some radioactive elements may be important enough to save our lives. Americium, an artificial element in the 95th box of the periodic table,...

Why Physics Breaks at Element 137 Where Do the Elements Come From? “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff .” These words belong to the famous scientist and narrator Carl Sagan. In fact, the elements that make us who we are, come to life during a star's death cry...

Why mouth wounds heal ten times faster How to Quickly Heal Wounds of Animals: Licking We have observed that many creatures around us lick their wounds. Dogs, cats, monkeys, and even humans. Imagine you accidentally cut your hand. If you bring your cut finger to your mouth right away, you are not alone. This instinctive response, and the faster healing of mouth sores, diverted scientists' skepticis...

How grammar dictates your bank account The Language You Use Helps You Save! Every person begins to learn the language spoken around them from the moment they are born. We learn this spoken language in a short time by comprehending it completely and now this language becomes our mother tongue. These stages that we all go through are natural processes that occur completely spontaneously, even though...

Dissolving Nobel Prizes to outsmart the Nazis Aqua Regia: A Different Way to Store Your Gold! Although it is not easy to save today, there are still people who keep their gold for investment purposes. There are several storage areas these people would prefer. Those who adapt to modern life prefer banks, while more traditional ones find it safe to keep them under the pillow. So, if you were a scien...

Why snails surface after it rains Why Do Snails Come Out When It Rains? If you have a garden or live in a place with plenty of soil, you must have come across these creatures after the rain. Legends say that a snail, in its normal life, must move slowly and gather energy so that it can quickly rise above the ground after the rain. Let's examine together why these rain-loving creatures exhibit this...

Why hot drinks cool you down Cooling Down With Hot Drinks: Tea Really Takes Away The Heat! There is a saying that we often hear in daily life, especially in hot weather: 'Tea takes away the heat'. Is there any scientific basis for this claim? Let's look at this issue from a wider window and talk about the cooling effect of hot drinks. Is It Possible To Cool Down With Hot Drinks? Imagine that you a...

Why your eyes actually sting in pools Why Do Our Eyes Sometimes Turn Red When We Get In The Pool? Especially on summer days, we prefer to enter the pool to cool off or to do sports. However, sometimes we feel redness or stinging in our eyes when we stay in the pool for a long time. This uncomfortable feeling is actually a signal that we need to get out of the pool. By the end of the article, we wi...

Why silicon life would breathe rocks Potential Element of Alien Bodies: Silicon We wouldn't be exaggerating if we say that silicon is the most popular element that has left its mark on the last century. Almost all of the electronic devices we use now work thanks to the semiconductor property of silicon. But it's not just technology companies that can't take their eyes off silicon. It has a beauty...

How elements got their names Where Do Elements' Names Come From? When we look at the periodic table, we see that there are over a hundred elements. Every element has a name and of course, that name has a story. These names, especially those at the end of the periodic table, are usually named after a scientist to honor him/her. Some are named after the region where they were discovered, while other...

From demonic curses to modern batteries Elements of Satan and Naughty Demons: Nickel and Cobalt When we look at the periodic table, we see that there are over a hundred elements. Every element has a name and of course, there is a story behind that name. Today we will learn the story of naming two elements in medieval times that people thought belonged to cursed spirits! The Inseparable Trio: Iron,...

How Titanium Tricks the Immune System Titanium Sticking to the Rabbit: The Accidental Discovery of Prostheses The human body is one of the most difficult structures to understand. The reactions of this complex structure to foreign matter are usually not very warm. Our body, which is not very welcoming, almost fights to destroy foreign molecules. We have a scientist who finished this war and came o...

Why cornstarch and ketchup defy physics Solid or Liquid? Non-Newtonian Fluids Can a substance behave both as a solid and as a liquid? It's usually pretty easy to tell if a substance is solid or liquid. We take it in our hands for an assessment, if it flows, we call it liquid. If it does not flow and stands firm, we can classify it as solid. But this distinction is not always easy. Today we are goi...

Why Absolute Physical Purity Is Impossible The Vast Unit of Chemistry: The Number of Mole You probably remember the concept of the number of moles from your chemistry classes. Chemists do all the calculations with reference to this complex number called "mole". In fact, all elements and compounds always react with each other in proportions associated with this number and eventually form new produc...

Ethics as a relationship security system Journey from Relationship Dynamics to Universal Moral Law "Ethics is drawing the line in the right place between what we have the right to do and what is right for us to do...” said Potter Stewart. This is exactly what we call ethics. Unfortunately, not everything related to ethics draws this line. Although definitions are important in philosophy and life,...

Why your moral scorecard is flawed What Makes Us Moral Or Immoral? In our previous article (Journey from Relationship Dynamics to Universal Moral Law), we discussed why morality is an individual journey. In short, everyone has their own right and wrong. All of us have relationships and rules that we follow according to these relationships. However, members of every relationship do not adopt the sa...

Why drinking silver turns you permanently blue Blue People: The Inevitable End of Love of Silver Today we're going to cover a case straight out of the "Smurfs". But our lead character is a little more frightening than our sweet little friends in the cartoon. In case you see one, it is more likely for you to say "Good God, what happened to your face?" instead of “Awww so cute!”. So let's take a loo...

The Engineering of the Saddle Shaped Chip The Science of Pringles: The Effect of Geometry on Crunch and Durability There is a brand that stands out among the chips brands and that we all know. In fact, many people say that they feel rich when they add this product to their cart. Those chips are more expensive than other chips brands but have a unique taste. Yes, I guess we all thought of the same...

Why water makes clothes look darker Why do wet surfaces appear darker? There is a situation that we all face in our daily life. Sometimes we see this undesirable darkness under the armpits of our t-shirts on a hot day, and sometimes our clothes get darker because of the splashing water while washing our hands. At times, we may even have to prove that the splashing water on our trousers is not due...

How Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays The Scientist Who Discovered the Device That Turns Our Inside Out: Wilhelm Röntgen In many movies or TV shows, you have come across extraordinary gadgets or comedy elements, such as "glasses help you see people naked". Of course, these are just fiction for now. But there is a device we all know that allows us to see the inside things: the X-ray machine. It is...

How ikigai and flow rewire your brain Ikigai: The Reason That Gets Us Out of Bed in the Morning Do you sometimes feel that you are not in the flow of life? Sometimes, while doing a job, do you do it without being in the moment and without realizing it? If your answers are “yes”, it means you haven't met the ikigai philosophy yet. Let's go on a journey to increase your awareness and be able to look...

Why Corporate Rivals Save You Money Cartels, Economy, and Economic Competition For most people, economics is a rather boring, incomprehensible, mathematical system. We have always been given information in this direction or the economy has always been explained in such a way that we can perceive it as such those descriptions. However, according to economist Alfred Mill, economics is a system that...

Your accent is childhood muscle memory Why Do People Have Accents? We have all come across accent differences in the TV series or movies we watch in our daily lives. In fact, from time to time, accent differences affect even the spelling of words. For example, the word is written as "colour" in British English and "color" in American English. Let's examine the accent issue in more detail in this a...

Are You the Ship of Theseus A Paradox Series: The Ship of Theseus Dear reader, if you have crossed paths with philosophy, you must be familiar with thought experiments. You know, thought experiments are more like experiments done in the head, as the name suggests. That is, it is trying to illuminate some problems that may or may not be applied in reality through thought. I think we can clarify thi...