Hiroshima

Yet another asteroid is approaching dangerously towards Earth. Yes, you read it right. Asteroid dubbed as 2018 PN22 is all set to approach towards Earth on August 17 at 7:16 pm (ST). Don’t worry, asteroid 2018 PN22 will not hit the Earth and we all are safe. …

Asteroids flying past Earth, even big ones, are now more common than before especially since Nasas jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) can track these celestial objects. Scientists believe that its only a matter of time before one of them eventually gets pulled …

It begins with a suicide. Cause of death: spectral possession/hair stick through the ear canal. The deceased, one Mrs. Furuya, had suffered through a marriage so abusive that were told her husband would beat her, get blackout drunk, then beat her again for t…

Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor and, more pertinently, the mass internment of Japanese-Americans in the aftermath theres an eerie timeliness to the new season of horror anthology The Terror. Beginning with a womans inexplicable suicide (and a number of supern…

On Monday, planet Earth had a close encounter with a potentially hazardous asteroid. Yes, you read it right. We were lucky that the 820-feet asteroid did not hit our planet. Named as asteroid 454094 (2013 BZ45), the space rock was taller than the Golden Gate …

Having three submarines in operation generally means at least one is at sea at any particular time, a necessity for a sea-based nuclear deterrent. The Dolphin class reportedly carries up to sixteen torpedoes and missiles; if the submarines primary task is nuc…

Last week, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building passed 4.6 million miles from Earth but could’ve been 500 times more destruction than the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima had it actually hit. Today, another asteroid the size of the Great Py…

Photograph Source: Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project director, with a map of Japan – Public Domain We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100  at a push well tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of…

The efficient engine of this destruction was the Gato-class sub, the backbone of the U.S. underwater fleet. There is much discussion about how it stacked against World War II's other underwater killer, the German U-boat. The comparison is somewhat academic; J…

Randrew asks: Why do people say the human soul weighs 21 grams? Its often said that its impossible to put a price on a human life, but that doesnt necessarily mean you cant define it by other metrics, something physician Duncan MacDougall tried to do in the …