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Discover a unique old house hidden in a mountain
Deep into the rocky slopes, this unique house in the Ampezzo Dolomites Natural Park in Italy is almost completely isolated from the outside world.
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History
These are the steps for the 'Nephilim', a race of giants living on Earth?
The Nephilim - 'great fallen men' were descendants of the physical relationship between the sons of God and the daughters of men as mentioned in Genesis 6:1-4.
Oceanography
Lobsters, octopuses and crabs are sentient and can feel pain
A new British report notes that octopuses, crabs and lobsters are also sentient, able to sense pain. These are the latest animals to be added to Britain's list of sentie…
Archeology
The 13-year-old boy suddenly became famous throughout the UK for finding 'ancient treasures'
13-year-old Milly Hardwick has found a rare Bronze Age ax.
Archeology
Marvel at the 'timeless world' of the Maya hidden under the lagoon
A new piece of evidence of the timeless development of the Maya has been unearthed under the Belize lagoon on the Caribbean coast, showing that the empire possessed a re…
Archeology
Discovered two 1,500-year-old god statues with the wrong limbs
When conducting conservation work a few decades ago, experts wrongly matched some parts of two Krishna statues in Cambodia and the US.
Conquer Mars
Extraterrestrial supervolcano shoots rocks all the way to Earth
A large portion of the 317 Martian meteorites that have fallen to Earth may have come from the eruption of the alien supervolcano Tharsis 1 million years ago.
Space science
What will America's space science look like in the next 10 years?
The latest survey of American astronomy and astrophysics from 2022 to 2032 recommended that NASA create a new program to develop several large telescopes.
Oceanography
Going to a hot spring, residents discovered rare turtles with two heads and six legs
A resident of Turkey stumbled across a rare one-piece turtle while bathing in a hot spring at the Pamukkale World Heritage site.
Animal world
Indigenous animals die too much, Australia seeks to destroy 6 million feral cats
Australia could use genetic engineering to wipe out 6 million feral cats, the ferocious god that kills hundreds of millions of native mammals, birds and reptiles each ye…
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Life in a town that hasn't seen sunlight for 66 days
People in the town of Utqiagvik in Alaska will spend 66 days living and working without seeing sunlight.
Archeology
Found evidence of mercury poisoning in humans more than 5,000 years ago
The earliest evidence of mercury poisoning has been found in 5,000-year-old human skeletons buried in Spain and Portugal, according to a new study.
Conquer Mars
NASA robot captures unusual sunset on Mars
The Martian sunset in the new image of the Perseverance robot does not have the usual blue color because the atmosphere contains less dust.
Conquer Mars
Top 8 destinations that promise a boom in Mars tourism in the future
Mars is a planet of spectacular contrasts - the largest giant volcanoes in the solar system, the deep valleys.
Oceanography
Interesting things about sea cucumbers that not everyone knows
The class Holothuroidea consists of tubular molluscs with a tentacle mouth at one end and an anus at the other. Many species are human food.