What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe
What is the shape of an electron? If you recall pictures from your high school science books, the answer seems quite clear: an electron...
10 Issues That Are Hindering a Voyage to Mars
Any mission to Mars would be fraught with difficulties – but as this list will show, none of the challenges are necessarily insurmountable. Decades...
10 Weird and Grotesque Archaeological Finds
History is full of surprises, and archaeology allows us a rare glimpse into the past that often reveals more than any textbook ever could....
Facts About Mercury
Quick Mercury Facts
Mercury does not have any moons or rings.
Your weight on Mercury would be 38% of your weight on Earth.
A...
10 Fascinating Facts About Color
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...
Secrets of storms in Australia
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...
Skunk can think creatively
Representatives of skunks (Mephitidae) could create paintings or write brilliant books. At least for the reason that their abstract thinking is no worse developed...
What Is A Comet?
A comet is a very small solar system body made mostly of ices mixed with smaller amounts of dust and rock. Most comets are...
Pole Shifting
"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...
8 Examples of Evolution in Action
Evolution is one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Armed with the knowledge of the interconnectedness of all life on earth, biologists...
MORE INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT MERCURY
What remains intriguing about Mercury is how scant our knowledge has been regarding some of its key details until recently. For example, it was...
Scientists identify first-ever Australian spinosaur
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...
First Australian Settlers Coexisted With Car-Sized Lizards And Giant Marsupials
Researchers found fossilized remains in Australia which proves that humans once co-existed with some pretty large creatures. As recent as 40,000 years ago, indigenous...
This May Be Life’s ‘Missing Ingredient’
Billions of years ago, molecules on a lifeless and tumultuous Earth mixed, forming the first life-forms. Eons later, a larger, smarter form of life...
Glades of the Devil
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...
Five forbidden places on Earth where you’d better not tempt your...
It seems that we can go anywhere we want, if we have enough desire and money. But there are some places on Earth where...
Tunguska meteorite
Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have investigated the consequences of the explosion of the Tunguska meteorite several times. They hypothesized that the...
What Is A Meteor Shower?
A meteor shower occurs when a number of meteors flash seem to radiate (or shoot out from) the same point in the sky. They...
We are not local ourselves...
Sensational discovery : a wall in Bolivia covered with thousands of...
In the south of Bolivia, near the city of Sucre, there is a huge archaeological site. It is located on a rock that has...
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“Confessions of the Son of the Century” by Musset
Musset began his novel in the summer of 1835, hastily dealing with other literary orders, and in February 1836 the novel was already published....
