Time feels so simple when you look at a clock. The seconds tick, the minutes pass, and your calendar fills up with birthdays, bills, and deadlines. But just beneath that everyday surface, time starts to twist into something far stranger, almost like discovering that the floor you’ve been walking on your whole life is actually ...
Stand on any beach and the ocean looks vast, but calm, almost knowable. Yet beneath those waves lies a world so extreme and so alien that, even in 2026, we’ve explored less of it than the surface of Mars. The deepest oceans are not just dark pits on a map; they are dynamic, living laboratories ...
Every time we think we’ve reached the peak of modern progress, some ancient artifact or ruined city quietly taps us on the shoulder and says, “Are you sure you’re that advanced?” From precision-cut stones that fit together like puzzle pieces to perfectly aligned pyramids and astronomically tuned temples, the ancient world is full of knowledge ...
If you’ve ever had a gut feeling that turned out to be right, remembered a tiny detail from years ago out of nowhere, or lost yourself so deeply in a task that time seemed to disappear, you’ve brushed up against something strange and powerful inside your own head. For all our talk about brain scans ...
Walk outside on a clear night, look up at the stars, and realize this: most of what shapes that vast, silent darkness is completely invisible. Not just hard to see. Not just far away. Literally invisible to our eyes, our telescopes, and for a long time, even our imagination. We grew up thinking the universe ...
For all our talk about being in a “high-tech age,” nature still gets the last laugh. We’ve put robots on Mars and sequenced the human genome, yet our best scientists are still scratching their heads over some everyday mysteries right here on Earth. That isn’t because science is failing; it’s because the universe is far ...
History loves neat stories, but real lives are almost never neat. Some of the most famous names from the past still feel like unfinished puzzles: missing pieces, blurred edges, and questions that refuse to die, even centuries later. The deeper historians dig, the more contradictions they find, as if these people were deliberately trying to ...
If you’ve ever stared at a photo of a deep-sea creature and thought, “That cannot be real,” you’re not alone. The deep ocean is so extreme, so dark, and so crushingly high-pressure that life down there has evolved in ways that feel almost alien. Biologists sometimes joke that if we ever meet extraterrestrials, they might ...
Some of the most baffling technologies on the planet were built long before electricity, computers, or even paper were common. Stone tools, bronze weapons, and clay tablets are what we usually imagine when we think of “ancient tech,” but that image is wildly incomplete. Hidden in ruins, buried in shipwrecks, and carved into rock are ...
If you’ve ever stared at the night sky and felt that weird mix of awe and mild existential dread, you’re not alone. Physicists feel that too – except they have equations, billion-dollar experiments, and sleepless nights to go with it. For all our scientific progress, some of the biggest questions about reality itself are still ...
Maria Faith Saligumba
Maria Faith Saligumba
