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Mathematician solves 150-year-old super-difficult chess problem
Appearing in 1869, the 'hard problem' with chess pieces has caused headaches for scientists for more than 150 years.
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The world's largest 3D printed concrete building
Engineers from CEMEX and COBOD developed a new mix of materials to build a 190-square-foot 3D printed house out of real concrete.
Scientific application
Discovered salt-tolerant plants that absorb hundreds of tons of salt per square kilometer of land
Chinese researchers have found a highly salt-tolerant plant that improves soil fertility in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Archeology
Found a slave room buried for 2,000 years under volcanic ash
The 16 square meter room in the Roman villa gives rare information about the weakest group of ancient society.
1001 mystery
Mystery of the biggest explosion in history, is it a message from space?
The terrible Tunguska explosion flattened about 80 million trees on an area of 2,150 square kilometers, but no one knows where it originated.
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A series of rare photos of famous cities in the world decades ago
Have you ever wondered what world famous cities looked like decades ago? The impressive photos below will take us back to the past.
Scientific works
Construction of the world's largest radio telescope begins
The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKO) can peer deeper into the universe than any previous radio telescope, providing sharper images than Hubble.
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Video: Chessboard illusion confuses people's ability to recognize colors
This interesting illusion is designed to be very simple, consisting only of a chess board with 2 light-colored squares - dark and light and a large object blocking the l…
New technology
What's in an egg-shaped 6m square house that costs $ 56,000?
It has a minimalist design and operates by solar power, can be office, living room or open space for your home.
1001 mystery
Ancient maze mystery with giant stone boxes weighing hundreds of tons of square shaped edges
How did the ancient Egyptians create stone boxes weighing hundreds of tons with 90-degree right angles, a size error of only one thousandth of an inch thousands of years…
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The death pit appeared in front of the Pantheon temple
The death pit suddenly opened in front of the Pantheon temple in Rome, revealing the stones used to pave the road more than two millennia ago.
Oceanography
Golden Ark Puffer Fish - Fish with a strange square shape
Despite possessing a bulky body, the yellow puffer fish still swim as fast as a shot to catch prey using the caudal fin.
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As the largest organ and the one that helps us survive, how is the skin made up?
Weighing about 4kg and covering an area of up to 2 square meters, the skin is the largest organ on the human body.
Archeology
1,400 year old cemetery discovered on the Scottish plateau
Archaeologists found traces of many circular or square tombs, most likely built by the Pict people.
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The most 'weird' bullets in world gun history
Guns are an impressive invention of mankind and throughout the entire history of development, there have been many peculiar guns with unique bullets that have been used.