a world of light

Day 247

Day 247

  A sea of pink lotus flowers The Red Lotus Sea in Thailand can only be visited on a wooden boat belonging to the local fishermen and villagers. There you...

Day 247

  A sea of pink lotus flowers The Red Lotus Sea in Thailand can only be visited on a wooden boat belonging to the local fishermen and villagers. There you...

Day 246

Day 246

  The scent of rain The scent of rain has a name. It’s called petrichor from the Greek word, “Petros” meaning stone, and “ichor” meaning fluid that flows from the...

Day 246

  The scent of rain The scent of rain has a name. It’s called petrichor from the Greek word, “Petros” meaning stone, and “ichor” meaning fluid that flows from the...

Day 245

Day 245

  Sleep with the fishes  In the middle of Sweden’s Lake Mälaren is what looks like a typical Swedish cottage but beneath the floating house is Utter Inn’s underwater accommodations...

Day 245

  Sleep with the fishes  In the middle of Sweden’s Lake Mälaren is what looks like a typical Swedish cottage but beneath the floating house is Utter Inn’s underwater accommodations...

Day 244

Day 244

  Plants send sos signals to insects for help Silke Allmann and Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany have discovered that leafy tobacco plants...

Day 244

  Plants send sos signals to insects for help Silke Allmann and Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany have discovered that leafy tobacco plants...

Day 243

Day 243

  Are there black holes in the ocean? A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape. “But at...

Day 243

  Are there black holes in the ocean? A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape. “But at...

Day 242

Day 242

  It happens only once every 12 years High up in the mountains of Kerala in the town of Munnar, is one of India’s best-kept secrets—the Neelakurinji—meaning ‘blue flower’. It...

Day 242

  It happens only once every 12 years High up in the mountains of Kerala in the town of Munnar, is one of India’s best-kept secrets—the Neelakurinji—meaning ‘blue flower’. It...