UFO Over Costa Rica: The 1971 Lago Cote Mystery A Photograph That Shook Belief On September 4, 1971, a routine aerial mapping flight over Costa Rica turned into one of the most baffling UFO cases in history. A government aircraft,…

Fiat Lingotto Rooftop Racetrack: When Cars Took to the Skies A Race Track Above the City Imagine standing in Turin in the 1920s and looking up at the horizon. There, above the rooftops, cars were racing in circles — not…

A Genius Who Lived in Lightning Some inventors leave behind machines; Nikola Tesla left behind a legend. Born in 1856 in what is now Croatia, Tesla was a man who thought in sparks and dreamed in currents. He is the…

The Birth of X-Rays: From Wilhelm Röntgen’s Discovery to Early Machines The Invisible Revolution In late 1895, a quiet laboratory in Würzburg, Germany, became the birthplace of one of the most important discoveries in medical history. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a…

Stonehenge: the Timeless Mystery of Britain’s Ancient Stones The first time Stonehenge was captured on camera There are places in the world that everyone seems to know, even if they’ve never set foot there. Stonehenge is one of them. These…

Ayrton Senna’s First Formula 1 Victory: Estoril 1985 A New Star in Formula 1 On April 21, 1985, Ayrton Senna claimed his first Formula 1 victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril. Under torrential rain, he led from start…