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…
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In the quietest chamber on Earth, the sound of your own heartbeat will drive you crazy
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…
The results are in: small planets like our own are extremely abundant in the universe
The results are in – our galaxy harbors at least one hundred billion planets, many of them Earth-sized meaning, small planets like our own are extremely abundant in the universe. On Monday, scientists announced that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered another 461 potential new planets, most of which are the size of Earth or…
Asteroid to buzz Earth on Wednesday. Don’t hold your breath though. Better chance of collision in 2029
The 1,000-foot-wide Apophis asteroid is set to buzz the Earth on Wednesday (1/9/13) passing a mere 9 million miles above Earth, but the chances of a fateful impact are next to nil (but keep holding your breath, there’s a better chance in 2029 when it passes only 18,000 miles from the Earth’s surface). Still, Apophis…
CERN LHC to shut down for 2 years for maintenance
CERN has announced that the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, will be shut down for a period of two years for upgrade purposes. The maintenance project will begin in March 2013. It will reopen in early 2015. The shutdown will enable engineers to lay superconducting cables in…
3.5 billion year old fossils found that predate oxygen on Earth
Researchers have found fossils of bacteria in northwest Australia’s Pilbara region, that are dated at 3.49 billion-years-old. That’s older than oxygen and just one billion years after Earth’s formation. The fossils, which are textures on the surfaces of sandstone thought to be sculpted by once-living organisms, are believed to be the oldest visible fossils ever…
China rolls out the world’s longest high-speed train line – 1,428 miles at 186 mph
China continues its expansion of high-speed rail lines with the introduction of the world’s longest high-speed train line. Spanning 1,428 miles from Beijing (the capital) to Guangzhou (a popular economic hub), the train tops out at 186 mph cutting the time required to travel between the two popular cities from 20 hours (the old train…
Feel like a giant (and get creeped out at the same time) – some everyday things magnified
Never before published pictures emerge – Einstein’s office on the day he died
Einstein died on April 18, 1955 of heart failure. A wily LIFE Magazine photographer, knowing the affair was going to be big news and access to Einstein’s family and funeral was going to be an intensely private affair, grabbed a case of scotch whiskey to use as bribes (he knew people would be reluctant to…









