Pencil Tip Sculptures by Salavat Fidai

Jul 30, 2015

Russian artist Salavat Fidai carves miniature sculptures on the lead tip of pencils, an art form he was inspired by another well-known mini...

RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope

Jul 29, 2015

RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...

The Leper Tree of Malawi

Jul 29, 2015

Leprosy is a curable disease, but less than seventy years ago, people were dying from it. After the end of the 17th century, leprosy became ...

The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw

Jul 28, 2015

The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...

Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans 2015

Jul 28, 2015

Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans is an ongoing street art festival taking place in the island of Cozumel, in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern c...

The Narrowest Streets in the World

Jul 27, 2015

At what point does a street cease to be a street? According to the Guinness Book of Records, the narrowest street in the world is located in...

The Surreal World of Neutrino Detectors

Jul 27, 2015

Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe, but not in the way electrons, protons and neutrons are. These par...

Exploding Anatomy Street Art of Nychos

Jul 25, 2015

Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates highly imaginative “exploded-view” murals showing animals, humans and other characters i...

The Fairy Stones of Harricana River

Jul 25, 2015

We have seen in the past that concretions — the precipitation of minerals around particles — usually take spherical or oval shapes, as in th...

The Fortified Towns of M'Zab Valley

Jul 24, 2015

MʾZab is a deep, narrow oasis valley located within the Sahara, consisting of five walled towns, about 600 km south of Algiers, the capital ...