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Be overwhelmed by the beauty of the 10 most expensive rollercoasters in the world
On average, to build a rollercoaster track usually costs millions of dollars.
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New type of gold does not scratch, harder than steel
Swiss scientists collaborating with watchmaker Hublot create very hard and shiny 18 karat gold.
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Steel people do not know if pain is due to a genetic mutation
Some cases right from birth have no pain or normal reactions to pain to avoid danger.
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Spider silk may have springs or rubber properties
This rugged and durable material is stronger than steel, tougher than nylon and is better elastic than Kevlar. So what material is it? Not far away is spider silk.
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Why do we procrastinate?
Do you surf the web all night while still having assignments in tomorrow? You are not the only one. About 15-20% of the population are generally procrastinating, among s…
1001 mystery
Mysterious mother named
Saint Petersburg Panorama weekly newspaper published in 1834 recorded, Valentina Vassilyev, wife of a farmer living in Shuya district, Ivanovo province, Russia has becom…
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Mysterious iron pillar of 1,600 years old stainless steel
In the countryside of western India, there is an iron pillar cast in the 5th century AD. 7m high pillar, about 1.37m in diameter, used steel I cast into walls, d
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The magnet sucks all the plastic
The body of a 71-year-old woman in the Russian city of Lipetsk can suck everything, from steel knives, plastic bowls to quartz cigarette ashtrays.
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Flowers grow from ... steel pipes
A very strange phenomenon happened in a Chinese man's vegetable garden. He was really surprised to find a bunch of slender, white flowers blooming on a smooth steel tube.
Oceanography
Indonesia uses coral rock to protect corals
Ecologists in Indonesia apply simple technology to create biological rock at the bottom of the sea, to protect coral reefs.
Archeology
The 10 ancient people do better than we do today (Part 1)
Our ancestors had extremely unique knowledge of metallurgy, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy and more.
Archeology
His armored worms monsters spike
A type of worm that lived 535 million years ago had a steel-like body covered with sharp teeth around its mouth and bristling spines protruding from its body.
Archeology
Successfully salvaged world record treasure
The treasure hunters on the Odyssey have announced that they have recovered 61 tons of silver ingots from the wreck of the ship Gairsoppa that sank from World War II.
Archeology
People have known how to make carbon nanotubes 400 years ago
According to a study published in Nature, the blacksmiths from damas steel (Damascus steel) knew how to build carbon nanotubes more than 400 years ago.