Ghosts: Are They Real?
Most get togethers are incomplete without a ghost story, a reference to some urban legend, or a personal anecdote about encountering some ...
April Fool's Day and Its Origin
Whether you're a cynic with a perpetual rain cloud hanging over your head, or little miss sunshine with a tendency to vomit words ever...
Lord of the 'Rings' - Saturn
The Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with beautiful, majestic rings encircling it. The rings give Saturn a regal air, as they...
Highest and lowest Temperatures Recorded on Earth
Did you ever imagine how high the temperature on Earth can rise or fall and where? If not, then think again because the answer to this que...
Make Way For The Giganotosaurus!
If you are obsessed with the T-Rex, you probably haven't heard about the Giganotosaurus. And if you haven't heard about the Gigano...
What Was The First Life on Earth?
We may be lording over the earth now, bending rivers and scaling mountains, studying atoms and splitting DNA, but we humans are relatively...
Chimpanzees and Monkeys: Are They Same?
If you belong to the breed of people who considers chimps and monkeys to be the same, then your whole life is a lie. However hard we may t...
How and from Where did Santa Claus Originate?
We must all be familiar with a figure who visits every Christmas with a bag full of gifts for the children and clad in a big red and white...
Gangkhar Puensum: The Highest Unclimbed Mountain in the World
With the progress of time Man has been able to set its foot to some of the most remote and harshest corners of this world. But there still...
The Case of the Returning Boomerangs
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they are yours." If not, then probably you did not throw the boomerang r...
What Makes People Laugh?
What makes you laugh? Memes? Chandler Bing's sarcasm? Stand-up comedy shows? The disastrous dates of your best friend? Or worse, the m...
The Early Clocks and How They Looked
Time tethers us to our days and nights, as we make sense of the hours, minutes and seconds, latching on to the chronographic realm. How do...
Yeti: A myth or a reality?
For the last many decades the urge to discover a real Yeti has captured the imagination of many explorers around the world. What cast a sp...
Galileo: The first spacecraft to enter the orbit around Jupiter
As the name suggests, the unmanned spacecraft was named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei and was the first to enter the orbit ...
Savannah: It’s not a Forest nor a Desert but a Grassland
Savannah is a biome with large patches of grassland and trees and occasional shrubs. It is a mix between a tropical forest and desert. ...
A Land of Ice and Fire - 100 Volcanoes Detected Beneath Antarctica
In a recent discovery by a team of researchers from the University of Edinburg, Scotland, nearly 100 volcanoes underneath the Antarctic ic...
Ceres: The Smallest and the Closest Dwarf Planet
Ever imagined where in our universe could we possibly find a place that could harbor life? The answer might lie well within our solar syst...
Prehistoric 'Sea Monster' may be the Largest Animal that has ever lived.
The claim that modern blue whales are the largest animal ever lived could soon be challenged with the latest fossil findings that hint tow...
Why the Sound of Nails on Chalkboard makes us cringe?
For a moment, think about your nails scratching the surface of a chalkboard. That isn’t something pleasurable, is it? Well, folks, that so...
What is a Super Earth? Is it Habitable? Are Aliens present in Super Earth?
The existence of aliens on an Earth-like planet has been the topic of debate and discussion for many decades. Pessimists argue that since ...
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