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The earliest evidence that people can sometimes hear the sound of meteors dates back more than a thousand years. Many eyewitnesses today report that the meteor they saw was accompanied by a strange sound. However, since scientists have figured out why “lights flash in the sky”, such reports have come to be considered a collective…

Scientists believe that humans descended from monkeysin the process of evolution. Our distant ancestors walked leaning on their hands, and only then straightened up. Also, in the course of evolution, our brain developed, as a result of which we learned to make tools, talk, and so on. Some scientists believe that human evolution has long…

The highest flying bird in the world is probably the African vulture. This predatory creature from the vulture family lives in Africa and can fly at an altitude of up to 11,277 meters above the Earth. At least once, the bird collided with an airplane at exactly this altitude. There is very little oxygen in…

Each of us has experienced a headache at some point. Often, it seriously scares people, because by “googling”, you can find a number of fatal diseases with a similar symptom. However, in fact, although a headache is an extremely unpleasant phenomenon, in most cases it does not threaten any dangerous consequences and is not an…

During a dream, we are usually completely immersed in it and do not remember anything about our real life and do not even understand that we are sleeping. However, it has long been known that a dream can be lucid, that is, a person can realize that he is sleeping and is in fictional worlds.…

While the question of whether we are alone in the Universe remains unanswered, we send all sorts of objects into space. Whether it’s the Voyagers with their gold plates on board or a Tesla electric car, we hope that something or someone will find them and maybe even send a friendly greeting in return. But…

The Milky Way is a galaxy that contains our Solar System and planet Earth. The first to guess about its existence was the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, when he saw a huge cluster of stars in the sky through a telescope. However, he could not even imagine that it was a whole galaxy; such a…

There are about 300 species of monkeys on Earth, among which there are very strange creatures. For example, on the island of Kalimantan, also known as Borneo, there live proboscis monkeys. As you can understand from the name, the main feature of these primates is a huge nose, which sometimes hangs below the mouth. Moreover,…

In 2025, the American company Reflect Orbital will provide people with one of the most unusual services in the history of mankind. It wants to send a group of space satellites with mirrors to reflect sunlight into Earth's orbit. They will create beams of light that can be directed to any point on Earth. Very…

Many small towns have their own, sometimes very strange, legends. For example, the Scottish city of Inverness is famous for the fact that the world-famous Loch Ness Monster supposedly lives not far from it. And the city of Ocracoke in the American state of North Carolina attracts the attention of tourists because it is the…