By: Alexandra Abrams, Former Head of Blue Origin Employee Communications, and 20 other Blue Origin employees and former employees on the New Shepard, New Glenn,…
Tesla and Mark Twain
One of the best known photographs of Nikola Tesla is not a photograph of Nikola Tesla. Well, Tesla comes out, but behind, like behind the…
Mount Olympus: Curiosities of the highest mountain in the Solar System
Image credit: NASA What is the largest volcano in the Solar System? Mount Olympus, the highest mountain on Mars. Here the curiosities of the Martian…
The most curious beaches in Australia
Image credit: J.F. RED Australia is the largest island in the world and unsurprisingly it has a plethora of beaches. There are an estimated 10,000.…
What would the night sky look like from the surface of Jupiter?
John GlobFirst, you would have to find a way to land on its surface (which would be on the nucleus itself, since, investigating, I found…
The longest walking path in the world: 22,000 kilometers and three years of travel between South Africa and Siberia
Everyone (or almost) has dreamed of going around the world at some time. The typical thing that is said between friends in a bar: “We…
This is the tallest tree in the world
Among the most striking scientific curiosities that we can observe directly in nature is the tallest tree in the world. What species is it and…
How are DNA robots that can change medicine?
Nanotechnology promises to bring a revolution to the medical sector in both efficiency and cost Although it sounds like science fiction, the truth is that…
Orchid fossil evidence 50 million years old
A study documents evidence for an orchid fossil trapped in Baltic amber dating back 45-55 million years ago, breaking the record of 20-30 million years…
The mysterious radio signal in the center of the Milky Way that scientists want to understand
The center of the Milky Way galaxy, imaged by the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared cameras .. NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al. It could be…