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This Chinese theme park is called Wansheng Ordovician and is an authentic torture-style test for anyone suffering from vertigo, as Insider's vision teaches us. The attractions are more intriguing, including

This time-lapse recorded by Peter Maier, from Switzerland, captures the exact moment in which a microburst of water over a lake occurs. The phenomenon is due to the formation of a microburst, the abrupt

When a magnet interacts with a piece of copper, copper produces a magnetic field opposite to that of the magnet. This induced magnetic field is what slows the fall of the magnet inside a copper pipe, for

According to the author of the video, ReubenMRU, what at first glance (minute 1:24) seems to be a waterfall under the sea in Mauritius, is only perceived from a certain height, "it is an optical illusion

When it rained for two million years Nor are we going to complain that this spring is being especially rainy: at the end of the Triassic, between 234 and 232 million years ago, what is known as the CPE

A surprising equality and other absurd but correct calculations I saw Twitter pass this equality, which at first glance is somewhat peculiar and even surprising: With the calculator you can check that

This video from AsapScience some years ago that explains some auditory illusions, like the McGurk effect (a phenomenon capable of modifying what the ears hear depending on what the eyes see), the tritone

On September 21, 1956, pilot Tom Attridge fired a four-second burst with the 20-millimeter cannon of the Grumman F-11 Tiger he was testing while slightly stinging. Attridge then increased the angle of

The video Which is stronger: Glue or tape ?, by Elizabeth Cox, makes a quick review of the history of glue and adhesives that (to my surprise) seem to have been used for longer than I would have said:

For a long time Mount Olympus on Mars held the highest mountain title we know in the solar system. Its height, measured with the laser altimeter of the Mars Global Surveyor, is 21,287.4 meters, just over

Why many pencils are yellow? Apparently many pencils are yellow as a result of an ingenious marketing trick. In 1889 the Austrian company Hardtmuth introduced a new line of fancy pencils at the World Fair

It snows over 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, well It is not exactly snow but dust particles and ice in the surroundings of comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as well as some background stars and flashes

On February 20, 1824 William Buckland published the first data about Megalosaurus, a large carnivorous animal that had part of a lower jaw, some vertebrae, fragments of a pelvis, scapula and its hind legs.

This simple interactive map of Our Wold in Data shows the world divided into two groups: those of those countries that are above the average population density (in blue) as opposed to those below: Population

This simple interactive map of Our Wold in Data shows the world divided into two groups: those of those countries that are above the average population density (in blue) as opposed to those below: Population

According to Wikipedia, shyness among trees is a phenomenon observed in some tree species in which the canopy of leafy trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with breccias.The phenomenon is more

The longest straight road in the world: 263 km More than two hours driving in a straight line 263 km. The stretch of highway between Haradh and Al Batha, in Saudi Arabia, "has the dubious honor of

This video corresponds to the first 3D model of snowflakes melting in the atmosphere. Developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the model has been completed based on a

This vaulted lava fountain was photographed during the eruption of Mauna Ulu at the Kīlauea volcano, in Hawaii, in October 1969. The eruptions lasted until 1971. According to the USGS at the time the