Mystery and riddles

Any mission to Mars would be fraught with difficulties – but as this list will show, none of the challenges are necessarily insurmountable. Decades...

History is full of surprises, and archaeology allows us a rare glimpse into the past that often reveals more than any textbook ever could....

Ajanta and nearby Ellora are two of the most amazing archaeological sites in India. Although handcrafted caves are scattered throughout India's western state of...

What remains intriguing about Mercury is how scant our knowledge has been regarding some of its key details until recently. For example, it was...

Often the participants of the battles carry shell fragments in their bodies for many years, and they do not interfere with their lives. However,...

Representatives of skunks (Mephitidae) could create paintings or write brilliant books. At least for the reason that their abstract thinking is no worse developed...

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...

Teotihuacan means 'The City of the Gods", or "Where Men Become Gods" (in Nahuatl). It is located in the valley of the same name 30...

We learned in the Austin Powers movies of the benefits of having a Mini-Me. While the Moon may have once been a part of...

In Spite of Female Cannibalism Makes a Lovely Docile Domestic Pet Carnivorous and infamous, the praying mantis devours anything of suitable size it can find,...

When it comes to rainbows, most people think they’ve seen all there is to see. Certainly, we’ve all seen the simple rainbow – and...

The Moon is the Earth’s only natural satellite. It is also the fifth-largest natural satellite in the Solar System and the largest among planetary...

“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...

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

When a person first learns his true self, something else rises from the depths of his being and takes possession of him. It is...

Flying reptiles, including the newly discovered Klobiodon rochei, have been put together from fragments found in fossil-rich Stonesfield, in Oxfordshire. As if a spear-like beak...

Stonehenge is a megalithic monument on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England, composed mainly of thirty upright stones (sarsens, each over ten feet tall...

The life of the German geographer and naturalist, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859), full of extraordinary events...