In the debris flow disaster at the Gyirong Port in Tibet, this police officer was still directing the evacuation of the crowd until the last moment of his life. He was a true hero.
In a 2007 Kyoto University study, chimpanzee Ayumu was shown numbers 1-9 in different positions on a screen. After he touched the first number, the rest were hidden, yet he continued in the correct or
A full-circle rainbow appeared beneath the world’s highest bridge as sunlight interacted with mist from water cascading below the massive structure during a water curtain show
in the 1910's, there was a serial killer named "the Axeman". One day, he reported to the police, that night he claimed, if houses played jazz, he would not break in and kill. That night, every corner
I believe I just became the first person to record this microbe species eat. Heterolitonotus rex kills and engulfs a whole rotifer, plus damages a few hypotrich ciliates.
J Harlen Bretz faced decades of intense mockery from the scientific community, then NASA satelite images proved him right and he got geology's highest honour.
In the Algerian desert, refugee Tateh Lehbib builds circular, flood- and heat-resistant homes using discarded plastic bottles filled with sand instead of traditional mud bricks.
A spider got stuck in a glass and couldn't climb the smooth surface. It tried to find its way to the top and escape, spinning silk as it went, until it ran out of silk and died.
Scientists asked 1,000 volunteers to bury cotton underwear across Switzerland to measure soil health creating an official "Underpants Index" based on how fast the fabric decomposed.
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol from Germany, c.1540 CE: this is one of the world's oldest surviving pistols, and it's inscribed with the Latin phrase "plus ultra," meaning "further beyond"
