This month, a Pentagon task force will release a long-awaited report that dug into a topic typically relegated to science fiction movies and tabloid magazines: unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. But some people believe that seriously studying UFOs could lead to new scientific breakthroughs. It’s a nostalgic subject for Carol Cleland, a professor in the ...
For 50 years, the research world has been searching for the so-called Odderon particle — completely without results. But in a new study, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has succeeded in the feat of discovering the mythical particle with the help of extensive data analyzes. The new Odderon particle discovered In 1973, two French particle physicists sat ...
The “Monolith Mystery” was started last month when the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) discovered a massive metal monolith in the middle of Utah’s Red Rock Country. It appeared as three large sheets riveted together, with the inside left hollow. The structure was embedded into the bedrock using heavy-duty tools. The 12-foot-high metal ...
When thinking of lightning, most people would come up with images of white, thin strips of light snaking through the sky. However, this is only one type of lightning. There are many more fascinating variations of lightning in nature. In July, a man took a picture of the rare jellyfish sprite, which is basically red ...
Researchers from the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum London say that had the impact not happened, dinosaurs might have continued to dominate the Earth. Dinosaurs were widespread globally at the time of the asteroid impact at the end of the Late Cretaceous period, occupying every continent on the planet and were the ...
The population on Rapa Nui didn’t crash because the Europeans came. Nor did they live in idyllic equilibrium with nature for centuries. Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. The island is also surrounded by several myths, legends, and narratives, not least ...
In 2002, British author Gavin Menzies published a book titled 1421: The Year China Discovered America. As the name suggests, the book postulates that Chinese sailors discovered the land of North America in 1421, more than 70 years before Christopher Columbus landed on the continent. Did the Chinese discover America or is Menzies’ proposition just another ...
The world’s largest and tallest stone Buddha statue, the Leshan Giant Buddha, is located at Lingyun Mountain’s Qifeng Peak, which is located at the confluence of three rivers — the Min River, Qingyi River, and Dadu River — in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China. The statue depicting Maitreya Buddha in a sitting ...
There is a Chinese medicine shop called Zhu Yangxin in Dajing alley of Hangzhou City. According to legend, there used to be a lame beggar, Li Tieguai, whose legs and feet were damaged, yet he had supernormal powers. One day, he went to the shop and begged the owner: “Sir! I am hungry, and my ...
The Hope Diamond is one of the most famous jewels in the world. Believed to have originated in India, it is currently exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. A new report suggests that the Hope Diamond might have formed close to the planet’s core. Close to the core All natural ...
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