The 1909 International Air Exposition held in Frankfurt am Main back in the days before the great wars and when the Zeppelin was in its prime. Source: How to be a Retronaut
Tigers living in and around the Chitwan National Park, in Nepal, are becoming nocturnal in order to avoid the human presence, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ‘It’s a very fundamental conflict over resources,’ says co-author Neil Carter. ‘Tigers need resources, people need the same resources. If …Continue Reading
Every image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover is being published online, so anyone can have a look at less ‘glamorous’ pictures of Mars. Most of the images appear in black and white, with color information encoded within them. This one looks like a lovely vintage postcard. Below you can check the same picture in color, as …Continue Reading
For their annual photo contest, National Geographic Traveler magazine received more than 12,000 entries from 6,615 photographers in 152 countries around the world. All photos were judged on creativity and photographic quality by photographic experts. Now, the jury has announced the winners. We already showed our favorite merit winners as well as the Third and …Continue Reading
According to the photo’s caption, this picture was taken on June 3, 1902, at 9:20 P.M., and ‘is one of the earliest photographs of lightning in an urban setting’. Certainly impressive, isn’t it? Source: Wikimedia Commons
