Mystery and riddles

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

Uranus has the distinction of being the first planet discovered in modern history. Actually, its discovery as a planet almost did not happen. In...

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

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...

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...

Representatives of different cultures have different opinions about how many days after death the soul still remains in some proximity to the dead body....

A fertile valley on the Peloponnese peninsula has become the site of the main ancient festival - the Olympic Games. They were held in...

There are many eyewitness stories about the so-called devil's glades, or damn cemeteries, where the earth is scorched, where animals and people die. The...

Many cryptids are alleged to walk the Earth or dwell deep in its oceans – some of them better-known than others. Even though cryptozoology...

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

"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...

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

Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have investigated the consequences of the explosion of the Tunguska meteorite several times. They hypothesized that the...

The dark side of the moon is a myth. In reality both sides of the Moon see the same amount of sunlight however only...

The most complete bird found in amber so far, the baby bird is around 99 million years old. We can't time travel to the Cretaceous...

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

In general philosophical terms, the problem is not at all the prerogative of religion alone. Moreover, it is in their interests to represent the...

We only see one side of the moon, because it is tidally locked to the planet Earth (tidal locking the situation when an object’s...