In 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, an American student, created the first ever virus to shut down an entire nationwide computer network and caused extensive damage.
NASA's space shuttle 'Discovery’, first launched In August 1984, has since completed 30 space missions, more than any other spacecraft. It is the most reused one.
FLAG (Fibre-optic Link Around The Globe), which runs for 27,000 km from Japan to UK, linking 3 continents (Europe, Africa and Asia) and 11 countries and can support 6, 00, 000 simultaneous phone calls, is the world's longest submarine telephone cable.
Carbon forms over one million compounds which are the basis of organic chemistry and all living things are based on carbon. Yet, it makes up just 0.32% of the Earth's crust.
Chemical lasers use liquid hydrogen fluoride to make intense beams for making weapons.
USA's nuclear submarines have been designed to cover a distance of 6, 40, 000 km without being refuelled.
Producing 3.6 million characters a minute, the fastest printer in the world is housed at the Lawrence Livermore laboratory, California (USA).
Albert Einstein was the greatest scientist of the 20th century. After he died in 1955, his brain was donated to science, to see if it gave any clues as to why he was so intelligent. Einstein's brain turned out to be wider than average, so perhaps it had greater creative bend in him.
The world's most accurate timekeeper is an atomic clock produced by USA. About the size of a desktop computer it is accurate to 1 second in 1.6 million years.
The electrical resistance of a dry human skin is 5, 00, 000 ohms. Whereas for wet skin, it is just 1000 ohms.
