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Overview of the course

In this video get to know about the life of Aryan people in the Vedic age of India.

The Life of Aryans in the Vedic age

In the Bytes video get a basic idea about what neurogenesis is and about the process.

What is Neurogenesis?

In this video learn about what is Pax Romana, and who succeeded in bringing about this change in the Roman Empire.

What is Pax Romana?

In this Bytes video learn about the economic impact of British Colonial Rule in India.

Economic impact of British colonial rule in India

In this video find out about both the positive and negative effects of  UV rays from sun on humans

Effects of Ultraviolet on humans

In this video learn everything about the Gupta empire, where they ruled and during which time and also the state of the country at that time under their rule.

The Gupta Dynasty

In this video get to know how massive the Milky way is and how different scientists have been working on figuring out the exact mass of it.

How massive is the Milky Way?

In this video learn about the Chera dynasty, where they ruled and what they were known for.

The Chera Dynasty

In this Bytes video learn about the Chalukya dynasty, what it was known for and when it ruled.

The Chalukya dynasty

In this bytes video learn about the American Civil War, when it took place, the series of events that led to it and how it helped shape what kind of a nation America would be.

The American Civil War

In this Bytes video find out everything that happened during the attack on Pearl Harbor in a nutshell.

The attack on Pearl Harbor

In this bytes video learn about the Satavahanas dynasty, their rulers, administration, society, economic and religious conditions.

The Satavahana Dynasty

In this Bytes video get an overview of the Delhi Sultanate, when and where they ruled and the five dynasties who ruled under them.

The Delhi Sultanate

In this Bytes video learn about the Korean War, when it took place and what exactly happened.

The Korean War

In this Bytes video find out the history behind the invention of laser and which scientists were involved in this invention.

The invention of Laser

In this bytes video learn about how important hormones are in human body and what are the various types.

The importance of hormones

In this bytes video get to know about what is gluten and the pros and cons of consuming it in your diet.

What is Gluten?

In this video find out if the Great Barrier Reef is dying. Find out how this reef system lost about half of its coral in the past two years.

Is the Great Barrier Reef dying?

In this bytes video learn about what is Continental drift, who came up with theories around it first and which theory is accepted.

What is Continental Drift?

In this bytes video learn about what is a green building and how green buildings have the objective of reducing overall impact of the building sector on environment.

What is Green Building?

In this bytes video find out why most planes are colored white.

Why are most airplanes white in color?

In this bytes video get to know what are sand dollars, why they are called so and where they are found.

What are sand dollars?

In this video find out if changing weather really makes you fall sick frequently.

Do changes in weather make you sick?

In this bytes video learn about what is Paleomagnetism, and why it is so important.

What is Paleomagnetism?

In this video learn about what is Higgs Boson, and what kind of theories physicists have about it.

What is Higgs Boson?

In this video learn about the photoelectric effect, who first discovered it and other interesting facts about this phenomenon.

What is Photoelectric effect?

In this Bytes lesson learn about sunspots and how they affect the earth.

How do sunspots affect the Earth?

In this bytes video get to know what is Photoperiodism, the different types of photoperiods, and get to know who gets benefited the most knowing about photoperiods of plants.

What is Photoperiodism?

Have you ever wondered why the white matter is white in color and gray matter gray? Get to know about it in today's bytes video.

Why is white matter white and gray matter gray?

In this bytes video find out about the abnormalities of vision and how spectacles work to correct vision.

How do spectacles work?

In today's bytes video learn about the Mongols and the Mongol empire

The Mongols

In this bytes video learn about the immune system in our body,  how it works and what are the two main parts of it.

How does our immune system work?

In this bytes video learn about what is Machine learning in a brief, it's different types and applications.

What is Machine Learning?

In this video learn about what metabolism is and what it tells about you.

What does your metabolism say about you?

In this bytes video learn about what is the Renaissance, which period it belonged to and what happened during that time.

What is the Renaissance?

In this bytes video find out if China is erasing its borders with Hong Kong and why.

Is China erasing its borders with Hong Kong?

In this Bytes video learn about the first Balkan war that started on this day - 8th October, 1912.

The first Balkan War started today!

In this Bytes video learn about the Indian Territorial Army which was launched today 9th of October.

The Indian Territorial Army

In this bytes video learn about the outer space treaty which was launched today 10th of October.

The Outer Space Treaty

In this bytes video learn about what is Hydraulic fracturing and how does it affect the environment.

For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-hydraulic-fracturing/W0SUBNI0

What is Hydraulic Fracturing?

In this Bytes video learn about what was the Industrial Revolution all about and how it affected the economy and population.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-was-the-industrial-revolution-all-about/UQHQLNBQ

What is the Industrial Revolution all about?

In this bytes video learn about what is Temperature Inversion and how it affects the atmosphere.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-temperature-inversion/4P6AXFXO

What is Temperature Inversion?

In this Bytes video learn about what happened during the Haitian Revolution.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-was-the-haitian-revolution-about/JNRYJPNB/?source=Course

The Haitian Revolution

In this Bytes video learn about the Pandyan dynasty,  where they ruled and during which time.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/the-pandyan-dynasty/NKZHCKC3

The Pandyan Dynasty

In this video get an idea of what Imperialism implies.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-imperialism/XOZ8MRHF/?source=Course

What is Imperialism?

In this video learn about Nanotechnology and it's applications. Also get to know how Nanotechnology came into existence.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-nanotechnology/GTBSURUA/?source=Course

What is Nanotechnology?

In this video find out why the League of Nations failed.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/why-did-the-league-of-nations-fail/ZW00ONX2/?source=Course

Why the League of Nations failed?

In this Bytes video get to know what is the Geologic time scale and what does it signify.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/geologic-time-scale/OIYEQ7KC/?source=Course

The Geologic Time Scale

In this video learn about why icebergs are dangerous and how several scientific bodies were established to study and monitor the icebergs.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/how-dangerous-are-icebergs/YO6H97FN

How dangerous are Icebergs?

In this video get to know what is Radioactive decay and who discovered it first.

What is Radioactive decay?

In this bytes video get to know what phototropism means and what's the mechanism behind it.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-phototropism/3UI19JY0

What is Phototropism?

In today's video learn about what is parasitic nutrition and the various types of it that exist.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-parasitic-nutrition/PQ8LC5G8

What is Parasitic Nutrition?

In this Bytes video learn about the working principle of submarines in detail.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/how-do-submarines-work/BAQGI3R7

How do submarines work?

In this Bytes video learn about how soil pollution takes place and what are the ways of preventing it.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/how-to-prevent-soil-pollution/OHY1JHOC

How to prevent soil pollution?

In this Bytes video find out what is the Asteroid Belt and what caused it to get formed.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-caused-the-asteroid-belt/Z3IKI3Q0

What caused the Asteroid Belt?

In this bytes video get to know what a Hyperloop is and what are its benefits.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-hyperloop/0TT7318R

What is the Hyperloop?

In this bytes video learn about what is a comet, how it got created and what are the various components of a comet.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/what-is-a-comet/O8IHS2FT/?source=Course

What is a comet?

In this Bytes video learn a bit about one of the most promising Indian scientists - Homi Bhabha who was born today.
For Hindi version click on - https://unacademy.com/lesson/the-birth-of-a-great-scientist/GDL48PMM

The birth of a famous scientist.

In this video get an idea of what is Adiabatic lapse rate and what are the various types.

What is Adiabatic Lapse Rate?

In this video learn about what are Karst Landforms and what are the various types.

What are Karst Landforms?

In this Bytes video find out what is Ocean Acidification and how does it happen. Also learn about how it affects food web in general.

What is Ocean Acidification?

In today's bytes video learn about the history of paper and how it first got invented and spread across the world.

The History of Paper.

In this Bytes video learn about what are Exoplanets and some interesting facts about them.

What are Exoplanets?

In this bytes video learn about what is the difference between Diploblasty and Triploblasty and get to know about examples for the same.

Diploblasty vs. Triploblasty

In this Bytes video learn about what is Big Data and it's applications in a nutshell.

What is Big Data?

In this Bytes video learn about what are Superconductors, who first observed superconductivity and what are its applications.

What are Superconductors?

In this Bytes video learn about the large Hadron Collider and its architecture. Also learn a bit about its working principle.

What is a large Hadron Collider?

In this bytes video get to know about plasma, how and why it is considered to be the fourth state of matter. Also find out about plasma in outer space.

Plasma in outer space.

In this Bytes video learn and understand how river valleys have helped ancient civilizations.

Importance of River Valleys to ancient civilizations

In this Bytes video learn about the mysterious iron pillar of Mehrauli which has a lot of theories around it.

The mysterious Iron Pillar, Delhi.

In this bytes video find out what would happen if the earth lost oxygen for five seconds.

What if the earth lost oxygen for 5 seconds?

In this Bytes video learn about the Chernobyl disaster and what what the immediate effect of this accident.

The Chernobyl Disaster

In this Bytes video understand how critical it is to conserve water and know about the reasons as to why we need to conserve water.

The importance of conserving water

In this Bytes video learn about what is Geomorphology and also get to know what Geomorphologists do.

What is Geomorphology?

In this Bytes video learn about what the Arctic Council does,  who all are a part of the council and what are its accomplishments.

What does the Arctic Circle do?

In this Bytes video learn about a famous Indian nationalist and writer who passed away today.

The death of a famous Indian nationalist

In this Bytes video learn about world's most endangered mammal - the white rhinoceros.

World's most endangered mammal

In this Bytes video learn about the heroic deeds of Rani Lakshmibai who was born today.

The birth of Rani Lakshmibai

In this Bytes video learn about the Sentinelese of North Sentinel island,  who are the last contacted people on Earth.

The last contacted people on earth.

In this Bytes video learn about how human memory works, and what are various stages of forming memory.

How human memory works?

In this Bytes video understand what is the Earth's energy budget and also find out what are the various components related to the Earth's energy budget.

What is Earth's energy budget?

In this Bytes video learn about what is Carbon Sequestration and how are the ways carbon gets sequestered in the atmosphere.

What is carbon sequestration?

In this Bytes lesson learn about all the ancient trade routes that shaped world history

Ancient trade routes that shaped World History.

In this Bytes video learn about ISRO and its accomplishments.

The Indian Space Research Organization

In this bytes video learn about the Constitution of India and how it got adopted on today's date - 26th of November, 1949

The Constitution of India was adopted today.

In this Bytes video learn about how a Kilogram used to be defined till now and what's the new definition of kilogram going to be like.

The new definition of Kilogram

In this Bytes video get to know what is Liquidity Crisis and what happens during liquidity crisis.

What is Liquidity Crisis?

In this bytes video find out how the islands of New Zealand are slowly creeping together.

Are the islands of New Zealand getting closer?

In this video find out what is an Aquifer and how do aquifers work.

What is an Aquifer?

In this bytes video find out interesting theories about how diamonds are formed.

How do diamonds form?

In this Bytes video find out what are Marsquakes, how frequently they occur and how it could be really helpful in answering some fundamental questions about the formation of planets.

What are Marsquakes?

In this bytes video learn a few really interesting facts about under water volcanoes.

Facts about underwater volcanoes.

In this Bytes video learn about whether the sea floor is dissolving away and how this could affect the future

Is the ocean floor dissolving away?

In this Bytes find out if it rains on other planets too and of it does what kind of rains are they?

Does it rain on other planets too?

In this Bytes video learn about whether we have a hidden 8th eighth continent on Earth.

Lessons

100 lessons • 4h 52m