Since who knows when, people have been watching the sky. It has been a means of tracking time, of navigating, of superstition, and a form of entertainment. Check out the giant list of interesting astronomy facts.
We wonder why it took so long for someone to do this. This animated gif from Soup shows a breakaway picture of a lock while a key turns to unlock it. Brilliant animation! And now we know…
In 1998, after several hours of hard work, archeologists in Andong City, Korea dug through a tomb exposing a small wooden casket. Inside they found a very well-preserved body, skull decayed but skin and beard still visible. Also found in the tomb, placed beside his head, were the sandals pictured above, woven from hemp bark…
A room in the Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is the quietest place on Earth and you might be surprised to learn that your brain can only tolerate so much silence before you begin to hallucinate. Inside the room, you will hear the sound of your lungs expanding and contracting, your stomach digesting food, even…
I’m a big fan of Bill Bryson’s writings and especially loved his A Short History of Nearly Everything book in which he gave an example of the Earth’s history if it had been compressed into a single day. The example highlighted how insignificant our time on Earth has been and really put things in perspective…
Here’s a pictorial of some everyday things magnified. Bet you never imagined they would look like this!
In 1991, in an excavation at a necropolis in Fidenae, an unusual grave was found. Archaeologists puzzled why the grave was so much larger than the others. In an age where the average man reached 5’6” in height, the 6’8” giant that they uncovered was a first of its kind.
95% of the objects in this computer generated simulation of low-Earth orbit objects is “orbital debris”, not satellites. “Space junk” consist of everything from spent rocket stages, lost equipment and defunct satellites to erosion, explosion and collision fragments. NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth (“tens of millions”…
Infinity Imagine, a tumblr that posts a variety of scientific related photos (with an artistic flair), recently posted these animated images of a head MRI illustrating the brain slice-by-slice.
The zero-energy BIQ House in Hamburg, Germany sports a “bio-adaptive façade” that uses microalgae to generate renewable energy and provide shade. Algae in the bio-reactor facades grow faster in the brighter sunlight and hence, create a natural shade when the sun is at its brightest. In addition, the bio-reactors power the building by capturing solar…
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