Mystery and riddles

Throughout human history we have sought to understand our home planet. However, the learning curve has been steep, with many errors having been made...

It’s one of the sure Statue of Liberty facts that the Statue of Liberty is an icon, representing the United States all around the...

Penguin facts tell an interesting story about a bird that once flew, and then evolved to become a better swimmer, but lost its ability...

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...

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

A meteor shower occurs when a number of meteors flash seem to radiate (or shoot out from) the same point in the sky. They...

Nearly everyone has heard of the Hubble telescope. It may be less than eight feet long – but after 23 years, it still gives...

One of the mysterious figures who preached occultism at the beginning of the XXI century was the Austrian scientist, spiritualist Rudolf Steiner. Many of...

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

If UFOs are recorded in the airspace of a particular country, but they do not cross external borders, then it is logical to assume...

Siberia’s Lake Baikal holds a number of world records for lakes – oldest lake, deepest, largest freshwater lake by volume, and subjectively, the world’s...

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...

Evolution is one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Armed with the knowledge of the interconnectedness of all life on earth, biologists...

Astrology can be understood as a philosophy that helps to explain life, rather than a type of mysticism that can be used as a...

A team of palaeontologists, including scientists from Monash University and Museum Victoria, has identified fossil evidence of the first-ever Australian spinosaur dinosaur. A neck...

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

At the northern end of the Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo is rare if not unique in Peru. Ollantaytambo is a massive citadel located 50 kilometers...

Neptune was not known to the ancients. It is not visible to the naked eye and was first observed in 1846. Its position...