Mysteries

Why Does the Universe Have More Matter Than Antimatter?

An international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, have reported the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter and not antimatter? According to theory, the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter — the ...

Troy Oakes

Researchers Investigate Baby Tyrannosaur Fossil

For now, there are just a few things researchers and students at the University of Kansas want people to dig about the new baby Tyrannosaur fossil they recently excavated in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. First off, it’s a “fabulous” complete section of the upper jaw with all of its teeth intact, along with bits of ...

Troy Oakes

60-Year-Old Phantom Fossil Mystery Now Solved

A new study has rediscovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate phantom fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land animals. These bizarre plant-eaters with tusks and ...

Troy Oakes

New Analysis Indicates Bones Are From American Pilot Amelia Earhart

Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a UT researcher. Richard Jantz, professor emeritus of anthropology and director emeritus of UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center, re-examined seven bone measurements conducted in 1940 by physician D. W. ...

Troy Oakes

Aviator Amelia Earhart.

The Story of Pain in Plants and Animals

Is it possible to demonstrate that there is pain in plants and animals? There is an old folk tale from the Solomon Islands that goes something like this: If there is an old tree that needs to be felled and is too big to use an ax, it can be brought down without actually cutting it ...

Emma Lu

A fallen dead tree.

Gods on Earth: When Rocks Take Human Form

There are certain instances in nature when rocks take human form. “Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show ...

Nspirement Staff

What You Need to Know About Ghosts in Chinese Culture

Every culture has its own unique take on ghosts and the supernatural, right from ancient to modern times. And in this regard, ghosts in Chinese culture are not any different. From ghosts that have smelly hair to ghosts who plan revenge on wrongdoers, the Chinese concept has numerous examples that will certainly interest those who ...

Armin Auctor

Japanese Artillery Shells Failed to Destroy Laojun Terrace

During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Japanese soldiers made an attack on Luyi County in Henan Province and tried to blow up a building located at Laojun Terrace on Laojun Mountain. They fired 13 shells, but none of them exploded. The puzzled troops went to examine the site and found that it was a large ...

Nspirement Staff

Finding Udumbara Flowers!

The name udumbara comes from the ancient Sanskrit language, meaning an auspicious flower from heaven. Udumbara flowers are a tiny white tulip-shaped flower that grows on a white thread-like stem. The flowers do not have leaves or roots, and they grow on anything, from your car to plants, shoes, fly screens on windows, metal objects, ...

Trisha Haddock

Top 7 Haunted Places in China

China’s history is vast and very complex, and ghost stories are no exception. Explore the top seven haunted places in China as you step into 5,000 years of history and the ghastly past of China, from the wiles of eunuchs in Beijing to deserted mansions in Shanghai, and While some of the stories are groundless and ...

Troy Oakes

man in city with sheet over body to look like ghost