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Seeing quadruple? For the first time, astronomers have seen an image of a single supernova split into four by a gravitational lens. The splintered stellar explosion may help calibrate distances across the universe. Gravitational lenses are the result of massive celestial objects, like stars, galaxies or even dark matter, bending light as it passes near … Continue reading →

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин; IPA: [vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn] ( listen), born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR) has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. During … Continue reading →

Former Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia became the first Indian Footballer to be conferred with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Hall of Fame Award. The award was conferred on 30 November 2014 by FIFA president Sepp Blatter in Philippines. The AFC organized the award ceremony for the first time to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Apart from … Continue reading →

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home by her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson after he was called by Monroe’s housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death. Her death was ruled to be “acute barbiturate poisoning” by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of … Continue reading →

John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on Monday … Continue reading →

In the not-too-distant future, astronauts destined to be the first people to walk on Mars will leave Earth aboard an Orion spacecraft. Carried aloft by the tremendous power of a Space Launch System rocket, NASA explorers will begin their Journey to Mars from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the spirit of humanity with … Continue reading →

Researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of invocations and spells. Among other things, the “Handbook of Ritual Power,” as researchers call the book, tells readers how to cast love spells,exorcise evil spirits and treat “black jaundice,” a bacterial infection that is still around today and can be fatal. The book is … Continue reading →

As far as we can tell, the expansion of the Universe started many billions of years ago from a very hot, very small state. From that hot, small state, it mushroomed and evolved into the Universe we know today. Cosmologists call that process of expansion the Big Bang because at some phases, especially in the … Continue reading →

Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies. This is a list of 10 of the most famous and popular secret societies or alleged secret societies.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor, “Men Who Hate Women”) is a crime novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book of the Millennium trilogy, which, when published posthumously in 2005, became a best-seller in Europe and the United States. … Continue reading →

The Greek philosopher Anaximander made many significant contributions to early geography and cartography and he is believed to have created the first published world map. Anaximander was a Greek philosopher who had a deep interest in cosmology as well as a systematic view of the world (Encyclopedia Britannica). Although little about his life and world … Continue reading →

The Moon is humanity’s nearest companion in our travels in space and the only celestial body that we have had the chance to actually visit. Still, despite its relative closeness and familiarity, our satellite continues to hold many interesting secrets. From its scientific strangeness to the many ways it affects our lives, the Moon is … Continue reading →