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Why did humans first appear in Africa?
Our ancestors first appeared in Africa, but why there and not elsewhere?
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Decoding Promethium: The mysterious man-made element from the Manhattan Project
The chemical element Promethium is one of the most difficult elements to study in the scientific world due to its high radioactivity and instability.
Space science
NASA spacecraft 24 billion km away transmits data after 6 months of problems
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is back to normal operation after a serious problem last November left the spacecraft unable to transmit data for months.
Archeology
How did prehistoric people make metal objects?
5,000 years ago, people moved from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age thanks to the advent of metallurgy, separating metals from impurities.
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Why is Hoh Xil called the 'human forbidden area'?
Located on the Tibetan plateau, Hoh Xil has an average altitude of over 4,500 meters, with many peaks over 6,000 meters high.
Oceanography
Discovered a silver fish with a strange shape over 4 meters long drifting ashore in Hue
The silver fish with dark black spots on its body, red paddle-shaped fins, and a body nearly 4.5 meters long drifted ashore on the city's shore. Hue, then buried by loca…
Archeology
The mystery of the stone engraved with a 1,600-year-old message
A man in England was weeding his garden when he accidentally discovered a stone engraved with a 1,600-year-old message. It is the rare Irish alphabet.
Videos
Video: While fishing, a man caught a fish with a strange shape
A resident was extremely confused when he caught a fish with a strange shape in southern Thailand.
Health
Maybe you don't know: Men nearly 100 years old can still have children!
Ramjit Raghav, a farmer in Kharkhoda village, Haryana, India, became the focus of international media attention when he became a father for the first time in 2010 at the…
Space science
What was man's first meal in space?
Astronaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to eat in space in 1961, with pureed food in a tube.
Videos
Hearing the noise, the man witnessed a scary scene in the tree
A Gold Coast man filmed a python swallowing a marsupial whole in his backyard.
Oceanography
The man caught a giant oarfish that was 6m long and weighed 130kg
It took the man 40 minutes of struggling to pull the giant oarfish, 6m long and weighing 130kg, to shore.
Animal world
The truth about Vietnam's strange 'tied her up' bird
Not only does it have a unique name, the bird that tied her up is also a bird with many strange characteristics of Vietnam.
Archeology
Diver gets scared when being led by an octopus to a tombstone on the seabed
The giant octopus was
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Man sets world record by squatting 26,000 times in 24 hours
A man in Illinois just set a world record by squatting (lowering the hips and then standing up) 26,100 times in 24 hours.