Everything about our beautiful planet: interesting facts, scientific discoveries, and thought-provoking theories about the past and the future of Earth.
If terms such as adenine and guanine bring you memories of the school course of biology, here you will see a reason to give to these words a second meaning. A team of scientists discovered that these two, as well as the other building blocks of DNA, could possibly form…
Here are the 10 most popular scenarios for the destruction of the world in 2012. This disaster, which according to some people will occur at the end of the year, may take the form of an extraterrestrial attack or occur because of the destruction of the Sun, the Earth's collision…
A research team calculated the number of asteroids that may be a potential threat to Earth. Furthermore, researchers created a list of countries that would suffer the greatest damage in the case of an asteroid impact. A team of scientists at the University of Southampton conducted a sample study on…
Most dinosaurs were already under gradual extinction long before a large asteroid fell to Earth about 65 million years ago, which became the final blow for them. At least this is what a recent study supports. This conclusion was reached by new U.S.-German research, shedding more light on one of…
Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once again has caught the attention of the international community with a statement that if aliens exist (and they probably do), then humanity should not attempt to contact them. Confined to a wheelchair due to a neurological disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the astrophysicist made…
Lately, there's been much fuss about what might happen in December 2012, with people discussing all kinds of scenarios. Few are those who say that something good is going to happen. And of course, many are those who say that absolutely nothing will happen. Crazy scenarios Some describe the end…
