The world’s tallest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela, is 979 meters high. The water falls from such a height that most of it turns into mist before reaching the ground. Local indigenous people call it “the waterfall that falls from the sky.”
Mysterious ‘black stars’ in the sea off Australia are sea urchins. They gather in groups, creating dark patches.
Sea horses exhibit monogamy, staying with one partner during the breeding season, as shown by observations.
Lake Baikal holds 20% of the planet’s freshwater, making it the deepest and oldest freshwater lake.
In 2004, an underwater volcano in the Indian Ocean was found that erupts every 5 minutes. Located 2 km deep, it creates new islands from lava. Scientists call it the most active volcano on the plan...
Ancient skulls in Israel, dated to 90,000 years ago, belong to Neanderthals, per DNA analysis.
The Naica caves in Mexico change color yearly! Scientists found the changes occur because of minerals in the water and temperature fluctuations.
Mangrove trees in India’s Gujarat state bend as if dancing! Biologists found this is an adaptation to tides, allowing roots to anchor better in the soil.
The chemical element gold forms from neutron collisions in stars before their supernova explosions.
The mysterious ‘singing’ of sands in the Gobi Desert sounds like a low hum. It’s caused by sand grains moving and creating resonance.
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...
Black holes in space swallow everything, even light! Astrophysicists suggest the absorbed material turns into energy and is emitted as jets.
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 ...
The geological layers of the Grand Canyon display 2 billion years of Earth’s history, studied through stratigraphy.
Mysterious ‘fairy circles’ in the Namib Desert are created by underground termites. These circles help plants survive in arid conditions.
In 2015, a meteorite older than the Solar System was found in Antarctica. At 4.6 billion years old, it contains dust from another star. Scientists say it’s like a letter from space about the univ...
Antarctica loses approximately 150 billion tons of ice annually due to global warming, according to satellite data.
In the 1950s, the US ran an experiment teaching dolphins to speak. A dolphin named Margaret lived with a scientist in a flooded house to communicate 24/7. She even tried mimicking human speech, but...
Climate data indicates a 30% increase in ocean acidity since the start of the industrial era.
Millions of birds in Nebraska, USA, gather in huge flocks, covering the sky! Ornithologists found this is migratory behavior linked to food search and protection.
The oldest map in the world, the Babylonian Map of the World, was created 2,600 years ago. Carved on a clay tablet, it shows the world as a flat disk with Babylon at the center. It’s like peering...