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Endangered Species of the Week – Sumatran rhinoceroses

Endangered Species of the Week – Sumatran rhinoceroses

Species Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Sumatra rhinoceroses is the only existing species of the genus Dicerorhinus. Although it is still a large mammal, but is the smallest rhinoceros. Habitat Sumatran rhino lives in thick tropical forests of although is still a large mammal and Borneo. It is also found in swamps, rainforests and cloud forests in Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, species. In ancient [...]

May 2, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Beautiful Sunset Photos

Beautiful Sunset Photos

image credits What can be more emotive and striking to the senses then that magical moment ,  when the fading glory of the sun disappears below the horizon, at sunset ? Not that the image you see is real, for the air itself, through refraction of light, creates a mirage in which we believe we [...]

March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment More
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8 of the World’s Most Polluted Places

While some governments have understood the danger of the pollution and have taken measures against it, there are still parts of the world, mostly underdeveloped, which still ignore the warnings. It’s hard to measure which ones are the most polluted, but we made a choice of eight of them. 1. Chernobyl, Ukraine The world heard [...]

August 19, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Ten unbelievable Welcome Trust 2011 award-winning images

Ten unbelievable Welcome Trust 2011 award-winning images

Utterly enthralling Ruby Tail Wasp image credits Every year, the Welcome Trust awards prizes, in recognition of those who have created the most impressive scientific images of that year, those featured in this post being among those elite photographers, whose incredible images, anything but ordinary, show just how far the technology of photography has progressed in [...]

March 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Seven Magical Macro Butterfly Eggs

Seven Magical Macro Butterfly Eggs

image credits The things we cannot see with the naked eye are often far more beautiful than we can even begin to guess at, and the relatively new art of macro photography is opening worlds to us that we could hardly have dreamed existed before it became possible to produce such stunning images. 1. The [...]

February 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Booze As You Never Imagined It

Booze As You Never Imagined It

CHAMPAGNE image credits When you walk into a bar, and order a beer or another kind of drink, how often do you actually inspect it before raising it to your lips?  OK, if it happens to be a cocktail, then you want the clour and taste to match your expectations, but suppose you had the [...]

February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments More
Photographic magic of liquid drop art

Photographic magic of liquid drop art

image credits Macro photography is surely the most stunning kind of imagery, capturing images that the naked eye could never hope to spot, and Corrie White, 61 years old, and a mother of four, resident in Canada at London, Ontario, is without doubt one of the best, in the execution of this complex art form. [...]

January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Masterful 3D street art , from pioneering genius Kurt Wenner

Masterful 3D street art , from pioneering genius Kurt Wenner

image credits Born in Ann Arbor, in Michigan, this truly pioneering artist is world renowned for realistic chalk murals and street paintings that give rise to fantastic optical illusions of three dimensionality, and are known in the art world as examples of  the anamorphic style. So good are the art works that this man produces, [...]

January 12, 2011 | 3 Comments More
Dieter Roth-Pioneer environmental artist

Dieter Roth-Pioneer environmental artist

The grandaddy of envitonmental art, who was so multi-talented that his works are featured all around the world in galleries, myseums and private collections. Dieter Roth was an artistic genius, without a shadow of a doubt.

January 3, 2011 | 0 Comments More
10 Mind Blowing Microscope Pics Of Snowflakes !!!

10 Mind Blowing Microscope Pics Of Snowflakes !!!

Because you enjoyed in our previous post 20 Most Amazing Microscope Shots Pictures We decided to give you some more interesting microscope pictures . These snowflake photos were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech,  by using a special  snowflake photo microscope. 1.Hexagonal prism This is a snow crystal in its most basic form. Such crystals [...]

December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments More