A rare ‘crystal dolphin’ in the Caribbean Sea shines in the sun. Its skin shimmers like glass.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft left the heliosphere in 2012, becoming the first human-made object in interstellar space.
Mysterious ‘black sails’ in the sea off Chile are penguin flocks. They swim together, creating dark patches.
Quantum entanglement allows particles to interact instantly over distances, proven by Bell’s experiments.
The largest tree in the world by volume, Árbol del Tule in Mexico, has a 14-meter diameter. This 2,000-year-old cypress is considered sacred by locals. Its canopy can shelter 500 people!
Carbon-14 is used to date organic remains up to 50,000 years with an accuracy of a few hundred years.
The largest cave in the world, Son Doong in Vietnam, is so massive it has its own jungle and river. It’s 200 meters tall, and you could fit an entire skyscraper inside! The cave was only discover...
The Devil’s Hole waterfall in Death Valley, USA, looks like it flows but is made of stone! Geologists explain it’s the result of erosion shaping it like a stream.
The Earth’s core reaches a temperature of 6,000°C, comparable to the Sun’s surface, due to radioactive decay.
A cave in New Mexico echoes with 1,000-year-old voices from ancient rock art. These paintings, made by Pueblo people, seem to whisper in the silence.
A tiny spider in Peru weaves webs shaped like larger spiders to scare off predators. This ‘puppet’ is made from leaves and dead insects.
The Quilon River in India appears only once every 10 years and flows for a few days! Geologists discovered its water drains into underground cavities due to tectonic movements.
The chemical bond between hydrogen and oxygen in water (H₂O) forms through covalent bonds.
Antarctica loses approximately 150 billion tons of ice annually due to global warming, according to satellite data.
The Hubble Space Telescope detected galaxies 13 billion light-years from Earth.
Mount Etna erupts about 0.1 cubic kilometers of lava per century, measured by geologists.
Sea turtles accumulate magnetite in their brains, aiding navigation using Earth’s magnetic field.
In India, ‘sand paintings’ on Kerala beaches are created by waves. They vanish with each new tide.
In 2019, scientists discovered a new species of shark in the ocean that glows in the dark. Called the “pocket shark,” it’s only 14 cm long and uses light to hunt. This discovery shows the oce...
Quantum mechanics predicts that electrons exist in probabilistic clouds around an atomic nucleus.
Archaeologists discovered traces of 7,000-year-old wheat in Turkey, proving early agriculture in the region.