By Anupum Pant Lac de Gafsa of “Mysterious lake” just like it is named, mysteriously appeared in the Tunisian town of Gafsa in 2014. In a place where there was only sand and was suffering from a major drought, this 2 acre lake, 10 meters deep, came as a surprise for locals and tourists as … Continue reading The Mysterious Lake
By Anupum Pant Did you know? In certain places on the sea floor there are lakes – underwater lakes! (there are underwater rivers too). One such lake, recently found, half a mile under the sea, exists in the gulf of mexico. It’s about 20 metres long and has its own shore full of mussels and … Continue reading An Underwater Lake
By Anupum Pant If you haven’t heard about the operation Plowshare, it was a US operation focused at developing techniques that would help them utilize the massive power of nuclear weapons for peaceful construction purposes. Now if that sounds dumb, remember, it was the year 1961 when they thought of trying it out. Look back … Continue reading The Radioactive Lake of Kazakhstan
By Anupum Pant In the Northwest Cameroon (Africa) there’s a lake which is commonly known among the locals as “The Bad Lake”. The official name of this lake however is, lake Nyos. This is one of those three or four special lakes in the world which are mostly know for their mass killings. The locals living … Continue reading Killer Lakes – A Very Weird Natural Disaster
By Anupum Pant Of all the “cool” places we have here on earth, lakes and other water bodies fascinate me the most. This is probably the reason I keep stumbling upon some of the most amazing lakes over and over. In the past I’ve written about the Taal lake and the bleeding lake of Antarctica. … Continue reading The Rainbow Coloured Lake – Grand Prismatic Spring
By Anupum Pant Geologically this is quite a phenomenon and might get a bit confusing to grasp if you stop paying enough attention. Here we go… Island in a lake on an island in a lake… Taal lake is a freshwater lake on the Luzon island of Philippines. Almost at the center of this lake, … Continue reading There Is No Lake Like The Taal Lake
by Megan Ray Nichols How many times have you gotten up, opened your fridge, looked in for a minute for something to eat, then closed it again without taking anything out today? If we discount the fact that leaving the fridge door open wastes up to 7 percent of the appliance’s energy use when was … Continue reading Understanding the Science Behind Refrigeration
by Megan Ray Nichols It’s one thing that no homeowner wants to deal with, but it’s often the reality during cold winter months — frozen pipes. In addition to cutting off water to the home, these pipes can also burst, causing water damage. Why do pipes freeze in the winter, and what can you do … Continue reading Why Do Pipes Freeze in Winter?
What is Watermelon Snow? Watermelon Snow, exactly as the name suggests, is a pink colored watermelon slushy like snow. It has been spotted in a number of snow covered regions of the earth which are permanently covered with snow. Although the pink color may look like it comes from some sort of a mineral deposit, … Continue reading Beware of the Watermelon Snow
If you have been active on the internet, there’s a great chance that you noticed this image of a peanut butter jar which had its price labelled as $761. That’s too expensive for a jar of peanut butter. Especially for a jar of it which has no added precious metal powder, or diamonds or anything … Continue reading $761 Jar of Peanut Butter
By Anupum Pant About 12,000 years from now, when there was a rise in the sea levels after the ice age ended, the water from seas filled up several places on the land, and with that water came in several marine organisms too. Lakes were formed with marine animals in them. Out of these several lakes formed … Continue reading Swimming with Jellyfish
By Anupum Pant On a scenic dry lake feature, Racetrack Playa, in the California’s Death Valley national park has had something very mysterious going on which has made geologists scratch their head for several years. On the dry lake bed are small and big rocks which have been moving mysteriously on the hard cracked surface, leaving … Continue reading The Mysterious Phenomenon of Sailing Stones Explained
By Anupum Pant There’s a place in Venezuela which is the single greatest generator of tropospheric ozone – A basin in Venezuela where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo. The basin is surrounded on three sides by mountains and is home to a very unique phenomenon which produces more tropospheric ozone than anywhere else in … Continue reading The Everlasting Lightning of Venezuela
By Anupum Pant In the year 1908 (June 30), a remote part of Siberia experienced something really mysterious and really huge. It was an explosion that took place at about 5-10 km altitude in the air which was estimated to be as powerful as 1000 (or 185 according to NASA) Hiroshima bombs! No one could … Continue reading A Natural Explosion That Knocked 80 Million Trees
By Anupum Pant Blue whales weigh about 150 tons each. That is a 150,000 kg animal we are talking about! Incredible! It is the largest animal to have ever lived on earth. Yes, bigger than any of the dinosaurs. Just for the perspective, the heart of a blue whale can weigh about 600 kg and … Continue reading Pando – An Organism That Weighs 6 Million KG
