Mystery and riddles

Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over...

What is the shape of an electron? If you recall pictures from your high school science books, the answer seems quite clear: an electron...

A particular type of ancient rock art in Western Australia maintains its vivid colours because it is alive, researchers have found. While some rock art...

This site is located north of the city of Cusco, at an altitude of about 3555 meters above sea level, between the districts of...

Russian city of Tobolsk, located in the Northern part of Siberia, in the Tyumen region has a rich history full of interesting facts. It...

It is not easy to find a fan that under no circumstances would have heard of the central sports arena of conservative England. The real...

It’s in everything we touch, taste, smell, and feel. It evokes emotion without asking for prior thought. It can be the focus of our...

Such scenes could be observed at the end of August 2007 in New South Wales in the south-east of Australia. That day, the Pacific...

•        One million Earths could fit inside the Sun. If a hollow Sun was filled up with spherical Earths then around 960,000 would fit inside....

Perhaps it’s the spinning motion of tornadoes that captures our attention. The fact that they spin is the most basic of tornado facts. Tornadoes...

“Darwin’s dilemma” refers to Charles Darwin’s bafflement that the fossil record contradicted what his theory evolution predicted. In his classic book On the Origin...

A comet is a very small solar system body made mostly of ices mixed with smaller amounts of dust and rock. Most comets are...

People who get here, are forever fascinated by the unique nature of the Philippine sea, which is difficult to compare with any other part...

Skulls are humanity's foremost symbol of death, and a powerful icon in the visual vocabularies of cultures all over the globe. Many strangely "deformed"...

"In a polar region there is a continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's rotation acts on...

Hailed as one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century, Homo naledi could change our understanding of human evolution. We love a...

What turns a mere piece of matter from being mere matter into an animated being? What gives certain special physical patterns in the universe...

Quick Mercury Facts Mercury does not have any moons or rings. Your weight on Mercury would be 38% of your weight on Earth. A...