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...

In Brazil, ants have been farming mushrooms for food for 60 million years. They cut leaves, “plant” fungal spores on them, and tend to their “farms.” It’s one of the oldest forms of agric...

Dragon’s blood trees in Madagascar release red sap! Biologists found the red color comes from pigments that protect the tree from pests.

Lake Uyuni in Bolivia reflects everything like a mirror! It’s due to a thin layer of water on its salty surface, creating perfect reflections of the sky and mountains.

Earth’s water contains heavy water (D₂O), where hydrogen is replaced by deuterium, at a concentration of 0.0156% by mass.

In Scotland, ‘ice castles’ on lakes form from frozen splashes. They look like crystal towers.

The largest aquarium in the world, SEA Aquarium in Singapore, holds 45 million liters of water. It houses 100,000 marine animals, including sharks and rays. The main tank is so huge you can scuba d...

Ice cores from the Arctic show that CO₂ levels never exceeded 300 ppm before the industrial era.

The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass of the entire Solar System, including planets and asteroids.

A rare blue lobster, caught off Maine, stuns with its one-in-two-million odds. Its vivid hue stems from a genetic mutation altering shell pigments.

Archaeologists discovered traces of 7,000-year-old wheat in Turkey, proving early agriculture in the region.

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

The Antarctic ice sheet contains climate records from the last 800,000 years, analyzed by scientists.

Black holes in space swallow everything, even light! Astrophysicists suggest the absorbed material turns into energy and is emitted as jets.

The star Betelgeuse in the Orion constellation loses mass through powerful stellar winds at a rate of 10⁻⁶ solar masses per year.

Sea turtles lay up to 100 eggs at a time, counted in long-term observations.

Ancient Romans used lead in their water pipes, impacting public health, as revealed by archaeological studies.

The Hubble Space Telescope detected galaxies 13 billion light-years from Earth.

The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792 km/s, a universal constant in physics.

In South Africa, ‘sand flowers’ bloom after rain. These plants survive in the desert by storing water.