Speculating about future is is most of the time futile, let alone about the distant 100,000 years kind of future. But we can always guess and if there is science involved we even might be onto something.
As the Hobbit movie just hit the theaters worldwide it's a perfect time for a short retrospective of all the beautiful locations of New Zealand where the Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot.
The Sony World Photography Awards is an annual photo competition organized by the World Photography Organisation and here are some of these years best entries.
There are about 7 billion people living on our planet. If we would all stand next to one another on our own square meter, how large would that area have to be? Is North America big enough?
You certainly don't see these kind of images every day, from tick close up, x-ray of a bat, to a high-tech micrograph of a zebrafish embryo. Check out some of the best images of the year.
Russian photographer took a bunch of unbelievable photos of snowflakes. And what is even more amazing is the set up he used to create these incredible macro shots.
David Guttenfelder a veteran photojournalist became one of the very first foreign photogs to be allowed to take pictures in North Korea and so we get to see the rare insight of this isolated country.
Short, fun and easy to remember interesting facts from nature, science, space, sports and life in general. You are more then welcome to contribute yours.
Numbers in many ways don't show us the situation in the world and this time you can see by yourself how much food does one family have for one week in 21 different countries around the world.
