Humans have used some highly unusual materials to build necessary structures over the millennia, but natural materials are the most…
History & Trivia (Page 11)
In 1994 in Southern France, three cavers made an astonishing discovery after following an air current coming from a cliff…
Black holes have been the fuel for countless sci-fi stories. Part of their appeal is that we understand so little…
The Bisti Egg Garden is an unusual, atypical and accessible rock formation located in the Bisti Wilderness Area near Farmington,…
That tilted rock formation... where have I seen that before? On TV and in the movies, most likely. Vasquez Rocks…
It is a question that has plagued mankind for centuries yet has been solved with no credible answers: how do…
It’s ugly. It’s huge. It cost $30 million. But the 51-foot-tall floodgate that was long considered a “mayor’s folly” saved…
Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, is up to its old tricks but unlike the ashy eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010,…
Volcanoes have caused incalculable destruction throughout history but even the most massive lava blaster has a heart. Volcanic plugs (the…
Why would a flourishing civilization, advanced for its time, suddenly cease to exist, its inhabitants gone and its architecture abandoned?…