Apocalypse cloud: Extraordinary sight appears above Montana's Crazy Mountains

This astounding image captured above the mountains of Montana looks like the first sign of an alien invasion. In fact, it is a lenticular cloud, which often forms in a UFO-like saucer shape, triggering reports of extraterrestrial sightings. The apocalyptic sky appeared over the jagged peaks [...]

Balancing on a Giant Rubber Band 1000 ft in the Air

Photo: Greg Beadle via Cape Town Blog With the wind whistling in your ears, a breathtaking view before your eyes, and a yawning gulf beneath your feet, would it matter whether your steps over the abyss were so... well... elastic? Balancing and bouncing about on a thin but obligingly flat [...]

iPad Survives Fall From Edge of Space in Jaw-Dropping Video

A new video has captured an Apple iPad's mindboggling fall to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere in what may be the ultimate tablet survivor tale. The high-definition video shows the iPad falling from a height of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters), with the blackness of space and the bright [...]

The shoes are still left outside the cabins to be polished: An eerie trip with the tourists diving two miles to see the Titanic

For 13 years people have been able to drop down to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in submersibles to see the remains of the Titanic. But now, hundred years on after it sank, these expeditions are coming to close to allow the ship to rest in peace. Here, ROB McCALLUM who works for the deep-sea exploration [...]

A Brief History of Chocolate

Chocolate beans and podWhen most of us hear the word chocolate, we picture a bar, a box of bonbons, or a bunny. The verb that comes to mind is probably "eat," not "drink," and the most apt adjective would seem to be "sweet." But for about 90 percent of chocolate's long history, it was strictly a beverage, [...]

2,000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet sheds new light on conquest of Britain after experts piece 1,000 fragments back together

Historians have pieced together a 2,000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet 10 years after its discovery in an Iron Age shrine and say it sheds new light on the conquering of Britain.  The helmet and its cheek pieces have been painstakingly restored from 1,000 small fragments over three years by experts [...]

160 Billion Alien Planets May Exist in Our Milky Way Galaxy

This artists’s concept gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. A six-year search that surveyed millions of stars using the microlensing technique concluded that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception. CREDIT: ESO/M. Kornmesser   View [...]