Category: Nature

Most (if not all) state fairs and fall festivals have been cancelled this year. That means I don’t get my favourite fall treat — cotton candy! You can totally make it at home, but there is just something about seeing a sea of puffy pink cotton candy walking around a state…

Few people get a chance to photograph animals such as hippos, hyenas, or crocodiles. Suren Manvelyan, however, has managed to get so close to them, he even captured insanely detailed close-ups of their eyes. Some of these macro shots look like landscapes of distant yet-to-be-discovered planets while others remind some…

A photographer has managed to snap what’s believed to be one of the only pure white humpback whale in the world. The 40ft-long humpback whale, known as Migaloo, was spotted swimming alongside another whale in the waters of New South Wales, Australia. Australian photographer Craig Parry, 41, was four miles…

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll expressed that clues in the small-scale structure of the universe point to the existence of numerous parallel worlds. The shocking comments were made on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) podcast last year. Carroll says that the fact that tiny particles like electrons and photons don’t have…

This year could end with a bang. Here comes an asteroid to remind us 2020 isn’t messing around: Scientists recently spotted an asteroid on a direct collision course to Earth — projected to hit a day before the presidential elections in November. The flying space object, known as 2018VP1, is…

Remarkable dashcam footage has emerged from Florida that shows a rare sunny-sky lightning bolt striking a palm tree. In the footage, taken Tuesday, August 10, a sudden flash of lightning can be seen, momentarily splitting an otherwise serene blue sky. The fiery bolt appears to hit the tree straight down…

Scientists have been documenting rare phenomenon in recent years: streaks of red lightning that resemble the tentacles of a glowing crimson jellyfish hanging high from the sky. These haunting spurts of lightning have been dubbed “sprites,” and are the product of super-fast electrical bursts that occur high up in the…

The year 2020 has served us up some awful news, from devastating bushfires in Australia, a pandemic causing chaos around the world, Kobe Bryant dying in a helicopter crash and everything else in between. But finally there has been some good news and it’s coming out of Kenya. The country’s…

Incredible photographs caught the moment a great white shark cleared 15ft into the air in what is thought to be a record-breaking breach. Shark expert Chris Fallows travelled to Seal Island in South Africa as part of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach, brought together various experts to…

Stargazers can look forward to the Perseid meteor shower, which is set to light up the skies on 11 – 12 August. In a celestial display that NASA says will be the ‘best meteor shower of the year’, the Perseid meteors are actually an annual event. Caused by debris left…