10 Beautiful and Precious Phenomena

1. Ball LightningThis bizarre electrical phenomenon usually occurs during thunderstorms and lasts for up to thirty seconds. Balls of lightening are said to behave in strange ways, hovering, rolling, hissing and sometimes passing through walls, in a way that seems completely unnatural. As a result, ball lightening has long been associated with aliens and ghosts, and the kind of pseudo-psychic head-cases who believe they...

Extraordinary and Precious Usage For Lots of Coins

Extraordinary usage for lots of coins - without glue or scaffolding. Just very carefully put one coin on another. A few hours a day months of practice and maybe you will be able to do something similar to these structures? Amazing physical law showed in a different way.Tags: Amazing, Precious, Humor, Beautiful, Wonder...

Cool and Precious Transparent House

On occasion of Milan Design Week Italian company Santambrogiomilano showcased the evolution of the Simplicity project, which in 2009 set itself an ambitious goal: architecture. Glass, the absolute protagonist, shapes the load bearing beams, floors, roofs and the colorless walls, the material principle justifies the conception of the whole habitat. The glass reflects the flash of the flame, the green of the vegetable...

Virgin Atlantic unveils SpaceShipTwo, world's first ever commercial passenger spaceship

Virgin Atlantic has unveiled the world's first ever commercial passenger spaceship.The sleek black-and-white vessel represents a gamble with a sky-high price tag to create a commercial space and tourism industry.The company hopes the winged, minivan-sized SpaceShipTwo, will rocket space tourists into zero gravity within just two or three years'This will be the start of commercial space travel,' Virgin Atlantic Airways...

Ancient human burial site shows evidence of mass cannibalism: 'Slaves were skinned and butchered like animals'

Evidence of mass cannibalism, in which men, women and children were on the menu, has been unearthed in Germany.The 'intentionally mutilated' remains of up to 500 people were found in 7,000-year-old pits near the village of Herxheim in the south-west of the country.Marks on the bones show that the bodies were skinned and the flesh removed using techniques normally used to butcher animals.Some of the bones may have been...

The awe-inspiring night sky that makes even Mount Everest look small

Very few sights could make mighty Mount Everest seem insignificant, but this could be one of them - an awe-inspiring image of the stars in the night sky casting their glow from inconceivable distances onto the world's highest peak.The photograph shows the constellation Auriga looming above Everest, seen to the left of its smaller Himalayan neighbour Lhotse, while in the foreground stands a stupa - a Buddhist monument.The...

First direct image of planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun

An international team of scientists has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to our Sun.The finding marks the first discovery made with the world's newest planet-hunting instrument on the Hawaii-based Subaru Telescope.The object, known as GJ 758 B, could be a large exo-planet although it may also be a 'failed star,' known commonly as a brown dwarf. The faint companion to the...

Driver unearths giant skull of 6ft 'cow' which roamed the country 7,500 years ago

The enormous skull of an ancient cow-like beast that stood higher than a man has been uncovered in a quarry.Excavator driver John Rutherford was on a routine shift at a riverside pit in Northumberland when he unearthed the incredible bones with his digger.They belonged to a species of wild cattle called an auroch, that had roamed Britain more than 7,500 years ago.Aurochs stood 6ft at the shoulder and became extinct in...

Hottest star in the galaxy pictured for the first time

One of the hottest stars in the galaxy has been discovered by astronomers.The dying star at the centre of the Bug Nebula is 35 times hotter than the sun with a surface temperature of 200,000 degrees.This is the first time the star has been pictured despite numerous attempts by stargazers across the world.Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics were amazed to find they had captured...

A Precious And Natural Spider Web and Droplet

Precious And Amazing Natural Spider Web and Drop...

A Precious Space Shuttle take off Photos

Space Shuttle take ...