When we think of the era of manned lunar flight, we imagine a column of fire and smoke rising from a massive rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral. This is the Saturn V—a three-stage colossus that carried humans to the Moon nine times and once launched the American space station, Skylab, into orbit.

"A wild boar is wild, a wild boar is angry, a wild boar has very sharp tusks (...)" is familiar to everyone, but do we really know wild boars? The Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) is a large mammal in the Suidae family, the only wild member of this family, and the ancestor of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica).

Mid-October is the time when most butterflies have already prepared for winter hibernation, retreating to safe places or leaving behind offspring adapted for hibernation. However, for the Fallow Moth, this is the time of hatching from its pupae and mating season.

Did you know that yesterday was World Bread Day? Today, bread can be bought almost everywhere (at least in our part of the world), but for a large part of our history, it was a luxury item. A large one, meaning how long, exactly? Have you ever wondered when bread was invented?

Termite mounds, although they may look simple from the outside, are in fact extremely complex structures equipped with their own... air conditioning system.