If you are observant enough and have watched nighttime footage of modern fighter jets, you may have noticed a striking difference. American aircraft such as the super powerful F-35 often emit a bright orange or yellow flame behind them...
Strato of Lampsacus was an ancient Greek philosopher who conducted experiments on air pressure and vacuums at a time when most people believed that the gods controlled all of nature.
He was a man who lived over 2,000 years ago,...
Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in what is now Taranto, Apulia, Italy, was another in a long line of brilliant polymaths from Ancient Greece, a noted military general and strategist who also made...
On June 3, 1997, Brazil's Roberto Carlos stunned the world with the greatest free-kick in soccer history in a match against France.
The free-kick was taken from 35 yards out. It looked like his rasping strike, hit at 136.7 kph...
Researchers working with China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often known as the "artificial sun," have discovered a method to push past a long-standing physical limit in nuclear fusion, potentially bringing the world a step closer to stable, high-energy...
In a move that could reshape the future of long-duration spaceflight, Russia’s state-owned Energia rocket company has secured a patent for a space station designed to generate artificial gravity.
According to a report by the state media outlet TASS, which...
Some mysteries are likely never to be solved, indeed some are not meant to be. One of the most 'popular' mysteries known to us comes in the form of a coincidence, pertaining to the latitude of the ancient Egyptian...
Researchers in Japan say they have used AI to produce the first Milky Way model that follows more than 100 billion individual stars, a leap in detail and speed that could reshape how scientists study galaxies and other complex...
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the "floating rocks"—the eerily balanced stones on Siberia’s frozen lakes that perch on slender pillars of ice. Named “Zen stones” for their resemblance to the carefully stacked rocks of Zen gardens,...
Astronomers recently spotted two unprecedented plasma jets blasting out of a supermassive black hole and into space beyond its galaxy. The two extremely powerful plasma jets are the largest ever seen, measuring 23 million light-years from end to end....
