Detailed Sun Facts
• 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....
Wondjina – Ancient Aliens?
Wondjina in ancient Australian Aboriginal lore are spirits of the clouds and rain. They are sometimes considered creator spirits or gods. However Ancient Alien...
The Mystery of the Geographer’s Adventures
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...
Astrology
Astrology can be understood as a philosophy that helps to explain life, rather than a type of mysticism that can be used as a...
10 Common Myths About Famous Landmarks
Myths and misconceptions exist about even the greatest and most famous landmarks in the world. Heck, you were probably even taught some of them...
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...
7 Theories on the Origin of Life
Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over...
Who won the Battle of Borodino?
Why did the French fail in the Patriotic War of 1812? Yeah, you remembered about the "cudgel of the people's war" and the strategic...
Rare Flying Reptile with Mouthful of Fangs Trolled Jurassic Skies
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...
What Is Darwin’s Dilemma?
“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...
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...
Sacsayhuaman
This site is located north of the city of Cusco, at an altitude of about 3555 meters above sea level, between the districts of...
What if the Earth was tidally locked to the Sun?
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...
Tiahuanaco
Sacred Centre Today there is little doubt that Tiahuanaco (also called Tiwanaku).was a major ceremonial centre and focal point of a culture that spread...
Antikythera Mechanism
In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to...
According to the plan of the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order
In 1233, the gaze of the grand master of the Teutonic Order turned to the east, where in the darkness of paganism, peoples vegetated...
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...
The very first forms of life may have been more animal-like...
Early life may have been far more like animals than we thought, suggests new research that shows bacteria can 'develop' like an embryo.
When bacteria...















































