Science
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse" of the cell because it generates most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
What is the mitochondrion?
This cybersecurity threat is the fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
What is phishing?
This is the branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of structures like bridges, roads, canals, and dams.
What is civil engineering?
Applying to right-angled triangles, this theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A pioneer in radioactivity research, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
Represented by the symbol Ag, it is a precious metal that has been used for coinage, jewelry, and other arts throughout recorded history.
What is silver?
This term describes an error or flaw in a computer program. The name is famously attributed to computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, who found an actual moth stuck in a relay.
What is a bug?
This is a type of electrical circuit where components are arranged end-to-end in a single path for the current to flow through.
What is a series circuit?
This mathematical constant is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
This physicist, astronaut, and science advocate was the first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This fundamental law of physics states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
This is a primitive data type that can hold one of two possible values: true or false.
What is a boolean?
An engineer designing an engine's cooling system would need to master these three primary methods of heat transfer.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation?
Dividing by this number yields an undefined result, while multiplying by this number always equals this number.
What is zero?
This English mathematician and writer is often regarded as the first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
An Augustinian friar and botanist, he is known as the "father of modern genetics" for his pea plant experiments.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Using the acronym HTML, this is the full name of the standard language for creating web pages.
What is HyperText Markup Language?
This design principle involves building backup or duplicate components into a system so it can continue to function even if one part fails.
What is redundancy?
Starting with 0 and 1, this famous sequence is created by adding the two preceding numbers to get the next number in the series.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
This English chemist's X-ray diffraction images of DNA, particularly "Photo 51," were critical to Watson and Crick's discovery of the DNA double helix structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This mysterious substance is thought to make up about 27% of the universe, but it doesn't emit light or energy, making it undetectable by conventional means.
What is dark matter?
This is a control structure where a function calls itself to solve a problem, breaking it down into smaller, similar subproblems until it reaches a base case.
What is recursion?
This fundamental principle of thermodynamics, also known as the law of conservation of energy, states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
Often called the "mathematics of change," its two major branches are differential and integral.
What is calculus?
American biochemist Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-developing this groundbreaking gene-editing technology.
What is CRISPR?