The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, home to the world’s longest elevated swimming pool. Source: Eustaquio Santimano / flickr
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. The coming days, we will show our favorites. Today, in the category Sense …Continue Reading
For the first time since the 1870s, a new family of spiders named Trogloraptor marchingtoni has been discovered in the United States. Amateur cave explores found the spider in a cave in southern Oregon. Afterwards, the spider was studied by scientists of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco who, with the help of …Continue Reading
Ham the Chimp, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, the first chimpanzee launched into space by the American space program (January 31, 1961). Source: How to Be a Retronaut
A recently discovered, collosal cluster of faraway galaxies, named the Phoenix cluster galaxy, is shattering a cosmic record. The extraordinary cluster at its heart gives birth to more than 700 starts per year. According to researchers, this is hundreds of times as fast as our Milky Way forms stars. The image is an artist’s impression …Continue Reading
