Also called lunar rainbows, moonbows differs from your average rainbow in that they are created by the shimmers of moon rays rather than the sun. A 10pm blood red night rainbow over Scotland! Image credit: Stefan Lee Goodwin A moonbow (also known as a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow) is a rainbow produced by moonlight instead of direct sunlight. Apart from the light source, its fo
Chilean scientists have identified a four-metre-thick Patagonian cypress known as the Great-Grandfather to be the world’s oldest living tree, beating the current record-holder by over 600 years. Image credit: Alerce Milenario In a study of the coniferous tree, also known as Alerce Milenario in Spanish, Jonathan Barichivich, a Chilean scientist at the Climate and Environmental Scienc
Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler, this distant world is most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature and is a perfect candidate to host life as we know it on its surface. There’s an alien world orbiting a star dubbed Kepler 1649. The world, however, was missed by scientists when they went through the data initially. But now, after scientists reanalyzed data gathered by the
These peaceful little guys (who are the largest rodents in the world) are called capybaras, and they get along extremely well with literally every other animal species. Including humans. How come? Well, it certainly doesn’t have to do with the fact that they eat their own waste. No, what it probably has to do with is their incredible inner peace. Just look at this. And
As Best Selling Author Graham Hancock has said, we are a species with amnesia. And most scholars would agree with that quote. For as long as the human race has existed, we have tried to understand our origins and life meaning. But the more we search, the more we know how little we know about our origins. Did humankind originate on one continent and spread across the world later? How did hu
The saying “lightning never strikes the same place twice” obviously does not cover Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo and the so-called Catatumbo strikes, which occur only in this part of the world. At 13,210 square kilometers (5,100 square miles) Lake Maracaibo was once South America’s largest lake and is also thought to be one of the oldest lakes on Earth. However, it was featured in the
VENUS has been chosen as the destination for two new NASA missions to investigate the planet's atmosphere and geological features, following the discovery of "enough water to support plentiful life" by NASA. The space agency has announced it will send two robotic missions to the planet by the end of the decade. NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the probes — named Davinci+ and Veritas
Not only have researchers discovered a massive stone sphere in Europe, it is said that the oldest and largest Pyramids are also in Europe. Furthermore, linguistic and cultural scientists indicate that the oldest written language does not come from Mesopotamia but from the ancient Danube Valley Civilization (Europe) which was among the first civilizations to develop copper tools, advanced architect
The Netherlands is the most beautiful country in the world. And yes, I am from the Netherlands. It's not often that people call their homeland the most beautiful in the world. For me, that was no different. I used to see pretty pictures of other beautiful countries around the world and was only seeing what my own country was lacking―beautiful mountains and high skyscrapers. There was nothing
Når den lange sommerferien kommer, er det mange skoleelever som ikke vet hva de skal gjøre med all den ledige tiden. Noen skaffer seg en sommerjobb, mens andre blir med foreldrene på ferie. Men 14 år gamle Ellie Yeater fra West Virginia visste nøyaktig hva hun ville bruke ferien sin på. Hun skulle oppfylle drømmen sin: å forvandle en gammel campingvogn til et vakkert sted hun kan tilbring
Photographer Finds Locations Of 1960s Postcards To See How They Look Today, And The Difference Is Unbelievable Hij zet 3 IKEA kastjes tegen elkaar aan en maakt dit voor zijn vrouw…Wat een gaaf resultaat!! 
Scientists Discover 512-Year-Old Shark, Which Would Be The Oldest Living Vertebrate On The Planet 
Hus til salg er kun 22 kvadratmeter – men vent til du ser det indvendigt 
Superknepet – så blir snuskiga ugnsformen som ny igen! 
Meteorite That Recently Fell in Somalia Turns Out to Contain Two Minerals Never Before Seen on Earth 
Nearly Frozen Waves Captured On Camera By Nantucket Photographer 
It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered another Earth 
