The longest hot air balloon flight lasted 20 days in 1991. Two Americans flew 8,700 km from Japan to Canada, crossing the Pacific Ocean. They nearly crashed due to a storm but set a record that sti...

Ancient bone needles in Russia, dated to 30,000 years ago, indicate early clothing sewing.

An underground ‘forest’ in South Africa consists of roots from a single tree spanning 2,000 years. This Ficus tree grows in Echo Caves.

The chemical element uranium decays with a half-life of 4.5 billion years, used for rock dating.

The Earth’s core reaches a temperature of 6,000°C, comparable to the Sun’s surface, due to radioactive decay.

In Sweden, there’s an ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi village that gets rebuilt every year. It’s entirely made of ice and snow, including beds and the bar, with temperatures inside never rising above...

Fireballs called Min-Min lights fly across the sky at night in Queensland, Australia! Scientists explain this as light refraction from distant sources in the atmosphere.

The Tambora volcano in 1815 ejected 150 cubic kilometers of ash, causing the ‘year without a summer’ in Europe.

In India, ‘sand paintings’ on Kerala beaches are created by waves. They vanish with each new tide.

Scientists have found that honeybees can recognize human faces using complex visual patterns.

The Milky Way galaxy contains 100-400 billion stars, as determined by astronomical surveys.

Climate models predict a 20% increase in hurricane frequency by 2100 due to climate change.

The world’s smallest computer, created in 2018, is smaller than a grain of rice. Developed at the University of Michigan, it’s used in medicine, like monitoring cancer cells. Imagine: a device ...

A rare ‘crystal dolphin’ in the Caribbean Sea shines in the sun. Its skin shimmers like glass.

In the Indian Ocean, Socotra Island looks like an alien world with ‘dragon’s blood’ trees. Their red sap was used in ancient medicine.

Climate data indicates a 10% rainfall decrease in the Mediterranean since 1900.

Quantum entanglement allows particles to interact instantly over distances, proven by Bell’s experiments.

In 2023, scientists “heard” a black hole’s signals for the first time. Using telescopes, they detected gravitational waves that sound like a low hum. This discovery confirmed Einstein’s the...

In 2020, a frog the size of a fingernail was found in Antarctica for the first time. This species, called the “ice frog,” survives at -30°C by freezing its body and reviving when thawed. Scien...

A tiny spider in Peru weaves webs shaped like larger spiders to scare off predators. This ‘puppet’ is made from leaves and dead insects.