Do you remember the Disney animation “Anastasia”, which was released in 1997? The film was based on the film of the same name from 1956. The story is related to an urban legend, according to which Anastasia, one of the last members of the Romanov Family,…
It has now been confirmed! The mysterious radio bursts coming from a Magnetar within the Milky Way have a repeating character. Until a few months ago, no such bursts of energy were detected from our galaxy. That changed in April this year when it was first detected.…
I’m hardly the only person who would sacrifice a lot to be able to spend some time in space at least once. I believe this is a thought that everyone has had, especially if they have watched any of the countless space movies from the…
The aging process was biologically reversed for the first time, by oxygen therapy of people in a pressure chamber. Scientists in Israel have shown that they can return the watch in two key areas of the body that are thought to be responsible for the weakness and ill health…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has set two new world records for the longest distance and duration reported for lightning flashes, respectively, in Brazil and Argentina. New records for these “mega-lightnings,” verified with state-of-the-art satellite imaging technology, double previous values measured in the United States and France. The findings…
There is hardly a mission in space that has passed without a single strange occurrence. Quite often we have heard confessions from astronauts about unidentified flying objects, strange phenomena, and mysterious whistling or knocking sounds in space. The story of Yang Liwei, the first Chinese…
If you think that now in 2020, everything is bad – the coronavirus, the ruble, oil, and the entire world economy in general – you should know: there were worse times in the history of the Earth. And when I say worse, I mean much…
The more we explore, the more we learn. The more we peer into the Universe, the more we understand how little we know and how much there is left to explore. Now, a new cosmological model suggests that the Universe we live in has a…