INTERESTING FACTS

It’s just so majestic to see the tallest tree in the world shoot right out of the heart of a cluster of trees and soar towards the sky.

One of the highlights of a solar eclipse is the ability to see the solar corona. Here’s a guide on how to safely capture and enjoy the moment

If you have seen even a single one out of the various types of Halos that occur in nature you should probably know how they are formed.

The Pinnatus Batfish takes on the appearance of a flatworm earlier in its life cycle to escape predators. It gives up this look at adulthood.

Metal whiskers are a phenomenon that causes hair-like micro-rods to grow out of a metal. These are extremely dangerous for any electronic system.

The Internationational Space Station is a football stadium size structure floating above us. Have we ever wondered how it protects itself from space debris?

In the midst of relishing the greatest gooey chocolate spread ever, you wouldn’t really like it if someone interrupted and asked, “Hey, is Nutella healthy?” But we want you to ask that to yourself. For the sake of your own health.

A normal sword-billed hummingbird’s beak is an inch larger than the Ruby-throated hummingbird.

The wrap-around spider from the land down under literally wraps itself around a tree and “disappears” into its background.

Necessity is the mother of all inventions, right? The World Wide Web is a good example of that.

The far side of the moon has, for ages, piqued our curiosity. We can’t really see it from Earth, but we should definitely know about it.

The Boquila Vine doesn’t even need physical contact to morph into a completely different plant. This sneaky climber is one of the most interesting plants out there.

If you have ever watched National Geographic on your television or been on a safari, you might have seen bees and other insects drinking tears of other larger animals. Here’s why.

A ferrofluid in the presence of a magnetic field is enchantingly beautiful to watch. Apart from that, it finds application in many important areas and is being studied to further develop medicine targeting and space travel.

Though wearing sunglasses protects you from UV radiations, it might get you sunburned too.

A gyre is a manifestation of basic physics in the ocean that causes the issue of ocean trash and eventually leads to the formation of a trash vortex.

This is the most gravity defying (literally) thing anyone could do.

McDonald’s straw is a testament to the fact that the simplest of things can be re-engineered and improved. It just takes a little imagination and physics!

A team of scientists have created artificial muscles using textiles in an effort to make the process of assisted mobility more natural by combining age-old textile manufacturing processes with electrochemistry.

This drone from DARPA has an expiration date. It is biodegradable and designed to self-destruct after just one mission.

Artificial intelligence is here and with the AI Poly Vision app, it is making a huge impact in the lives of the visually impaired. This is just so darn uplifting!

What happens when three of nature’s most furious elements combine? You get a jaw dropping image and some numbers for emergency precaution.

The Cota tile could possibly change the way we charge our devices. For good. Understand how their seemingly simple yet intuitive technology works.

The PCEye mini is the world’s first eye tracker that features a built-in ASIC created exclusively for eye tracking.

Bosch’s display unit or the Integrated Connectivity Cluster brings us one step closer to the motorbikes of the future.

Toyota enters the commercial robot and artificial intelligence market with this adorable palm-sized companion bot.

Sub-atomic particles are scattered in the emptiness of an atom and are surrounded by swathes of empty space at a microscopic level.

If Jupiter’s land mass is really non-existent, what is the largest of all planets in our solar system made up of?

Check out this incredible water jet cutter that you can use to get precise cuts. It’s so compact that you can just set it up in your room.

Vantablack is the darkest substance ever created. You might know that but it still doesn’t make re-watching a demo less awesome.

As a kid, you might have thought of re-creating nature’s designs for real life applications. It’s called Biomimicry.

The highest temperature ever recorded on earth wasn’t in a desert. It was recorded at the CERN laboratory in Europe.

There is a mouse statue installed in Russia to honor the contributions of animals used for lab testing. RIP!

With SpaceX and Blue Origin racing towards building the best reusable space vehicle, India begins working towards a prototype with the RLV-TD.

This is definitely an aww yeah moment for panda bear lovers all over the world!

Comic fans, this 3D printed Batman suit is the closest you will ever get to a real-life working Batman suit.

If you’ve seen pictures of the earth taken from moon’s surface you might have wondered why the moon’s sky always appear dark. Here’s why.

Fire tornadoes are a phenomenon that has the potential to wipe out large swathes of land and set forests ablaze.

One of the most abundant greenhouse gases which are responsible for climate change can be reduced if cows fart less.

A scanning electron microscope takes the ability of powerful electron microscopes one step further to create super detailed images.

You know how we keep wondering about space travel and how we are gonna go to Mars soon? An EM drive would really help us get there. Quickly.

Intuitive Surgical’s, the creators of the Da Vinci Xi are well known for their robotic-assisted technologies & this robot is one of their best.

Though it is known as the Red plant, the sunset on planet Mars are cast a blueish blanket over the dusty landscape.

A fractal pattern is incredibly beautiful to see. Put it in a glass using some physics and viola, you have a Lichtenberg showpiece.

The Onion Omega 2 is tiny. It is IoT-enabled and can really help you out if you are looking for something powerful, minuscule and cheap.

One of the most powerful telescopes of the world has captured the formation of a solar system. Baby planets FTW!

The energy from the brightest object in our sky is more than enough to meet all our needs and then some more.

Getting back a reel of photographs was a high action mission during the cold war because digital cameras were invented after the first spy satellites.

The Horseshoe Crab’s blood is expensive for a reason. However, overharvesting of their blood has led to a decline in their population over the years.

The Trachyandra family of plants is interesting. They have really unique features and one of those features are these twirls.

The Xylaria Polymorpha is one heck of a creepy plant. You could plant it for Halloween and have some fun, though!

This plant has evolved to inculcate properties that just defy basic laws of physics.

Who doesn’t love sheep? Especially if they have a thick tufts of fur and cute faces peeking from them. The Valais Blacknose breed sport all that!

Picture a night at the beach with the bioluminescent firefly squids lighting up the ocean with sparkling blue lights.

A pink lake is something you should definitely do a double-take over when you hear about for the first time. But you should know that quite a few of them exist!

The International Space Station will be decommissioned in 2024. Did you know that you can see 16 different sunsets every day from the ISS?

Cruising at a speed of Mach 20 across the globe would have been possible with DARPA’s hypersonic unmanned aircraft.

Getting a tattoo from a robot? Pros: No mistakes on the artist’s part. Cons: Well it’s gonna look like the terminator is operating on you.

The Solar Impulse project’s goals were to make the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power and to bring attention to clean technologies.

You remember that scene in the Captain America movie where they find the tesseract in the ocean? Well the Cherenkov radiation looks just like that

Lammergeiers are the only species that dye their feathers & it is believed that deeper the shade of their feathers, the longer they’ve lived.

A cosmic latte definitely sounds something you would want to order the next time you are in a coffee shop.

This question might have been bugging you for some time now. Turns out, there is a purpose behind our fingers wrinkling underwater.

Have you ever wondered how much distance an average person walks in a lifetime?

Clouds don’t really strike us as something that might weigh a lot, do they? But they are made up of countless drops of water, essentially, and it makes sense that they will have a lot of weight.

Have you ever wondered how trees just seemingly get heavier? Where does all that material for the leaves and fruit and wood comes from? Well, here’s the answer.

An Extravehicular Activity in the earlier days of space exploration used to be quite experimental and helped to improved future spacesuits.

H. Day sure seems like he would have been a fun guy to hang out with.