Ever heard of Machu Picchu? It’s a magical place where you’d feel you’re in a historical tale of fantasy. Almost empty of people, and touches the clouds so easily. Greenery and historical blocks of dry-stone co-exist in harmony with llamas and nature.

Machu Picchu means Old Mountain. It sits 2,430 meters above the sea level in Peru. It was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a sacred place.

It was built around 1450, at the time of the Inca Empire, and abandoned 100 years later. It was the traditional birthplace of the Incan “Virgins of the Suns”. Known as chosen women, their duties included preparation of ritual food, maintenance of a sacred fire and weaving ritual garments.

In Machu Picchu it’s always raining. The majority of the rain falls from October through to April, but also falls inbetween too. In January of this year heavy rain trapped over 2,000 tourists and 2,000 locals around Machu Picchu, and it was temporarily closed. It reopened in February.

It has lows ranging from 8º to 11.2º Celsius, though it can reach 0º Celsius at the higher altitudes. June and July share the coldest mornings, reaching -2º Celsius. Maximum temperatures never go above 20′s even in summer.

If you want to forget about the world, you’re advised to stay there. Maybe if there were no tourists either it would’ve been a great place for living too.

IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is an experimental spacecraft. It is the first to demonstrate solar-sail technology in space successfully.

It’s traveling to Venus in a six month long journey along with Akatsuki, then will be having a three-year journey to the far side of the Sun. Later this year JAXA will start their second mission which will involve another solar powered probe that will sail to Jupiter and the Trojan asteroids.

JAXA’s solar sail technology means that space exploration and building probes will be much cheaper and easier, and that means that smaller and less developed countries like Kuwait could go into space exploration soon.

This Saturday, while you’re cozy in your home, an asteroid will pass by Rosetta at a speed of 54,000 kilometers per hour. Rosetta will snap pictures of the asteroid and gather data about it.

The data collected could unlock the secrets of the birth of our whole solar system. Why is that? Because asteroids come from the formation of our world and planets more than 4 billion years ago.

The new species of the walking batfish that could fit in the palm of your hand was found in the path of the oil spill! But sadly, you might not get the chance to put this thing in your palm (not that you want to) because the chemicals being used to clean the oil spill might kill it before you get the chance to.

This walking batfish literraly uses it’s hand like fins to “walk” on the seafloor and hang around. “If we are still finding new species of fishes in the Gulf, imagine how much diversity … is out there that we do not know about,” John Sparks, a fish biologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, said in a statement.

So, what’s this talk about rewriting the laws of physics? Well, one of the things that physics is all about is the atom, and now they discovered that one of the building blocks of the atom may be smaller in size than what they first thought. What does that mean? That means the laws of physics that you studied so hard at high school may be changed!

In a ten year experiment done in Germany researchers found that the proton is 4% smaller than what it was thought. That might sound small to you, but it’s bigger than what it sounds, and it means bigger changes to physics too. It means that there is something wrong in particle physics. What does that mean? That means that laws of physics we used to determine the elements that exist in galaxies, gas and dust are might be wrong.

This finding will open the door to new theories in physics that can mean big changes. Physicists around the world are going to start working on some serious calculations because of this finding. The world of physics is in a real shake-up.

Now, due to the BP oil spill, scientists discovered dead zones where no marine life or fish can survive. In these dead zones there’s so little oxygen that fish would die if they come across it. In addition to that, fisherman say that they are noticing unsual movements of fish and shrimp, they have also reported more sightings of sharks near the shore. All of that is happening because of the BP oil spill, it has turned the sea into a danger zone.