Mysteries of planet Earth 2024, May

The Trovante Museum has been operating in Romania for over ten years. It is located in old sand quarries near Costesti in Valcea County. The museum is small and occupieshectare with a small area. On its territory there are collected large round stones, here called trovants and capable, unlike other mineral spheroids, of growth and reproduction

Science has reached the depths of the sea and cosmic heights, but is still powerless in front of some stones - ancient and unknown.- Salik.bizBalls of the GodsFor many decades now, archaeologists and geologists from all over the world have been trying to establish the origin of the mysterious stone balls scattered all over the world, from Franz Josef Land to New Zealand

This is the conclusion reached by researchers from Stanford University and the Institute of Ecology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.In 2015, ecologist Gerardo Ceballos led a study that used conservative estimates to reveal the huge discrepancy between the usual ("background") extinction rates and the extinction stream we see today

Trowants (living stones) are unique bodies that grow, change in size, and multiply. An unusual mineral life form is phenomenal, so it still arouses keen interest among scientists and ordinary people.Trovantes, located in the southern part and in the territory of central Romania, do not differ in appearance from ordinary stones

Diamonds are not just a woman's best friend. They are also geologists' best friends. These gems sometimes contain incredibly rare or invisible elements that reveal the deepest secrets buried in the bowels of our Earth. Analyzing such finds, scientists were able to guess what is underground and even revealed some facts from the history of our Earth

Today in the world there are about 200 varieties of natural gemstones. Along with gemstones (natural diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires and alexandrites, as well as natural pearls in raw (natural) and processed form), there are many semi-precious stones, some of which are incredibly rare, exceeding many of the most valuable gemstones

The health of animal populations is directly related to the level of ambient noise. However, not only the animal, but also the plant world reacts to sounds.The study was conducted by biologists from the University of Western Australia; its results are published in the journal Oecologia

A resident of China, working as a programmer in one of the institutions in Beijing, as always, took breakfast to work that day, which consisted of sandwiches and fresh vegetables, among which were tomatoes

In the Indian Ocean, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, lies a small archipelago consisting of four islands. This is the Socotra archipelago. Also known as the most unlikely place on Earth from the rest of the planet.Socotra Archipelago.- Salik

When a person is attacked, sensory cells transmit a signal through our nervous system, which secretes the neurotransmitter glutamate. Glutamate stimulates the amygdala and hypothalamus of our brain. This triggers the stress hormone adrenaline, which puts our bodies in a fight or flight mode

Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have shown that tobacco and tomato plants have a relatively loud "cry of pain" in the ultrasonic range, which they emit under stress. The results of the work were published in the preprint of the article in the bioRxiv

It happens that even the most unusual and seemingly incomprehensible things can have the simplest explanation. This is exactly what happened with the strange spirals discovered at the end of the 19th century in the bowels of the American state of Nebraska

In the concept of the overwhelming majority of the population, Antarctica is an uninhabited continent, where on kilometer-long blocks of ice and snow, except for animals and rare scientific stations, there is no one. In fact, Antarctica is much more complex than it might seem at first glance

Botanists have compiled the first large-scale map of algal blooms on the Antarctic coast. They did this based on satellite data and field measurements. Despite the tiny size of each algae, in the mass they give a bright green color.Algae growth is promoted by …- Salik.bi

In the era of technological development, photography and imagery from space are constantly becoming obsolete and updated. Scientists, researchers and ordinary people have the opportunity to compare old, new photos, find surprising changes and sometimes inexplicable phenomena

These Google Earth images show a possible entrance leading to an underground secret base. Located on King George Island in Antarctica.- Salik.bizKing George Island is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, located 120 km off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean

With the development of new scientific approaches of our time and the introduction of the latest technologies, unexplored mysterious mysteries of nature are not diminishing

In the photo - the Konder massif in the Ayano-Maisky district of the Khabarovsk Territory. On its territory is one of the world's largest deposits of platinum. The image was taken on June 10, 2006 using the ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) instrument installed aboard NASA's Terra research satellite

When you hit a rock, you usually expect to hear a dull sound, in extreme cases, a click, but not a ringing

In June 1867, the English natural scientist and meteorologist James Glacier flew over Paris in a hot air balloon. When he entered the thick cloud, an amazing event happened to him. He himself described it this way:“Suddenly, immersed in a cloudy fog, I heard a wonderful concert. T

Konder is an unusual mountain range in the shape of a round cauldron. It is its almost ideal circumference that makes one put forward various versions of the appearance of this place - many disagree with geologists, although it would seem that everything is explained simply

In ancient times, when people did not possess sufficient knowledge to explain the phenomena taking place in the world, they saw in them the will of the gods

Some animals, such as salmon, beavers, and shipworms, customize their environment to suit them. Scientists have found that this affects ecological networks and can prevent mass extinctions.The most famous example of an animal engineer is the beaver, which builds dams and alters landscapes, forming lakes and changing river beds

Big stone riverThe Big Stone River in Russia is a chaotic jumble of large boulders "flowing" down the slope of Mount Taganai in the Chelyabinsk Region in Russia. The river is 6 km long and an average of 200 meters wide. In some places, the width reaches 700 meters

Remember how in childhood they sincerely burned over the poems of Chukovsky, in which the chanterelles took matches, went to the blue sea, they set it on fire, the sea was on fire, a whale ran out of the sea? .. The quote is inaccurate, however, as it turned out relatively recently, a running predatory whale named Ambulocet actually existed 48 million years ago

A massive lightning strike left a huge hole in a Fort Worth parking lot at 6 a.m. on Shadidell Drive and Boat Club Road on October 30, 2019. The parking lot, shared by a Chevron gas station and strip center, now has a 5 meter and 1 meter wide hole

She is the most mysterious of lightning, her nature is still incomprehensible. There are many of the most contradictory hypotheses about its physical nature, but scientists cannot explain many of the properties.Most eyewitnesses describe these lightnings as luminous balls of small diameter - from 10 to 30 cm

The record was registered by the World Meteorological Organization. The thunderstorm that broke out over Brazil on October 31, 2018, stretched for 709 kilometers.Analyzing images taken from satellites that monitor the weather, meteorologists have discovered something quite supernatural: lightning of monstrous length and unprecedented duration

I learned what ball lightning can do as a child, when I was visiting my grandfather and grandmother. During the summer rain, ball lightning struck the wall of one of the village huts. The crown-log instantly turned into coal. As eyewitnesses assured, it burned without fire and smoke

On January 4, 2020, the following video was posted by @TeaBoots:- Salik.bizThe video instantly spread across the Internet and everyone asks the question: what is it?Many YouTube users who were very far from the scene traditionally write that this is a miracle from Adobe

For scientists, it was an unexpected discovery of the place and time of the appearance of super-powerful lightning, which was believed to occur only in the warm season. However, this type of lightning, called by scientists a superbolt, has become an exception

According to the Times of India, over the past 2 months in the state of Madhya Pradesh, 150 people have been killed by lightning. Similar statistics are provided for the state of Uttar Pradesh, where 102 people were killed by lightning.Having thought deeply about what is happening, Indian scientists have come to a phenomenal conclusion: it turns out that this happened because since April of this year, a record number of lightning has been recorded in the states

For some, the zipper is a fastener, for others, a designation of how quickly to run to the store, and for others, what is painted on the radiator grille of their German car or on the forehead of Gary Potter. But for most, lightning is still the same natural phenomenon that occurs during a thunderstorm, and is of great interest to photographers

A unique phenomenon was captured on a video surveillance camera installed somewhere in the English city of Doncaster

Science does not stand still, moves forward with leaps and bounds, but, despite this, there are still many secrets and mysteries in the world. Take, for example, ball lightning, the nature of which has not been fully understood

For the first time the description of ball lightning took place in 106 BC in Ancient Rome. They were described as fiery birds dropping hot coals on the ground. In the Middle Ages, phenomena were recorded on paper in Portugal and France. Alchemists, scientists of that time, tried to find an opportunity to rule over the souls of the dead, considering ball lightning as such

Lake disappeared in the Arctic on Novaya Zemlya

A large land mass once made up an entire continent among the endless snow and ice of the modern Arctic. Where today there is only snow and ice, continents once existed - at least, this is evidenced by the results of recent studies, according to the results of which it can be concluded that in the Arctic two times in the history of the Earth there were huge continents

Scientists have not yet been able to determine the pattern of their movements.Numerous colonies of moss balls have been spotted on Arctic glaciers decades ago, but so far no research has attempted to explain what controls the herd, coordinated movement of these mysterious plants

In the Arctic, a real environmental disaster can happen as a result of the explosion of a carbon bomb. This statement was made by Leonid Fedun, who is a co-owner of the oil company Lukoil, reports the WWW.PLANETANOVOSTI.COM portal.In the event that the temperature in the Arctic rises by another 7-8 degrees, then this will cause the release of a huge amount of methane