A 2,000-year-old Polish church, long baffling historians with its lack of an entrance, has revealed its secret. Image Credit: Wikipedia Imagine walking through the historical cobblestone ring of Krakow, Poland, and coming across a 2,000-year-old stone church. It’s small, round and remarkably preserved. However, as you stroll through its sandstone walls that have weathered, there…
In a discovery that feels almost unreal, scientists have revived a microscopic organism that had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for around 24,000 years. The tiny creature, often referred to in media reports as a ‘zombie worm,’ was thought to be long dead. Instead, it returned to life in a laboratory setting and showed signs…
The story of 1729 chronicles the remarkable relationship between British mathematician GH Hardy and Indian mathematical savant Srinivasa Ramanujan, who taught himself mathematics. One day in 1918, Hardy visited Ramanujan, who was at a nursing home. He mentioned that the number on his taxi, 1729, seemed singularly devoid of interest. As noted in a report…
Deep inside Earth, hidden structures may be steering the planet’s magnetic shield. Image credit – Wikimedia The Earth’s magnetic field protects our planet from the harmful effects of solar radiation, thus allowing the development of life on Earth. It is known that the magnetosphere of our planet is generated due to the movement of molten…
This underground water may have been trapped before complex life existed on Earth. Image credit – Gemini Scientists working in a Canadian mine discovered something that has revolutionised the experts’ view of life underground and our planet’s history. The researchers found water trapped within fractures in ancient rocks at a depth of nearly 1.5 miles…
The Grand Canyon reveals a significant geological gap, the Great Unconformity, representing 1.3 billion years of missing Earth history. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Grand Canyon’s fame comes from the opportunity to observe geological layers of history seen there, similar to pages in an old book. It might even be the most famous of such geological…
An ornate Roman pan, unearthed in Staffordshire, offers a unique glimpse into life on the empire’s frontier. Image Credits: Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England, via Wikimedia Commons The Romans also had their own way of commemorating their travels, even before the invention of digital photography and refrigerator magnets. In 2003, an amateur archaeologist using…
In 2001, a metal detectorist in Kent unearthed the Ringlemere Cup, a rare Bronze Age gold bowl. Image Credits: British Museum, via Wikimedia Commons While searching an average field in Kent, Cliff Bradshaw was accustomed to seeing the typical pieces of metal waste and junk common to the English landscape. But on an uneventful day…
William James (Image: Wikipedia) Life feels overwhelming for many people right now.News cycles are exhausting. Careers feel uncertain. Social media constantly pushes comparisons into people’s faces. Some wake up already anxious about deadlines, money, relationships, or simply what the future might look like five years from now. In that kind of atmosphere, optimism can start…
Hidden beneath the forests of northwestern Poland, the remains of Stolzenberg have given archaeologists a rare look at a medieval settlement that disappeared centuries ago. The town is believed to have been founded in the late 13th or early 14th century and later abandoned for reasons that are still unclear. Researchers from the Relicta Foundation,…
