Archeology
200,000-year-old tar furnace operated by another species revealed
A shocking array of archaeological evidence suggests that extinct humans once mastered the technique of producing pitch.
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Conquer Mars
China announces strange discovery of Mars robot before 'death'
Before being hit by a dust storm and losing contact, China's Zhurong robot made a groundbreaking discovery about what happened on Mars 400,000 years ago.
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New discovery of the threat from 'plastitar'
Researchers from the University of La Laguna in Spain have discovered a new form of pollution, with a combination of microplastics and tar deposited on coastal rocks.
Alien
NASA released images of 'fingerprints' on another planet
The image from another planet sent back by the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter looks exactly like a human fingerprint but is up to 0.5 km in diameter.
Technology
Grow ancient creatures from scientifically accurate augmented reality
Paleontologists from La Brea Tar Pits are currently developing a scientifically accurate herd of extinct animals for use in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (V…
Archeology
Stone Age 'chewing gum' reveals the life of a girl who lived 5,700 years ago
The traces of DNA remain on the birch tar that she chewed
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Invented in modern times but it killed people 5,000 years ago
Why is the invention thought to be of modern times, which appeared thousands of years ago?
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New hypothesis about how an alien creature exists
Experts hope their findings will open many new doors to study the existence of alien creatures, namely Saturn.
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Understanding the formation of fossils in nature (1)
Archeology is a highly developed industry and has been focused for a long time because people always want to explore the past.
1001 mystery
Strange stories about traces of reincarnation (2)
A woman in Myanmar said she was a Japanese soldier whose villagers burned alive and hung on trees in the war. Her wrists were all like a tie with a rope.
Environment
The largest tar lake in the world
The Pitch is located in southwestern Trinidad, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a very special lake. This is the largest and most important tar lake in the world, abou…
Environment
The sea currents have rules
In 1856, some sailors in distress on a sandy beach in the Atlantic found a tar ball, the asphalt covered a coconut skull, including a goat skin letter with symbols stran…
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Admire the surreal scene in the world's largest tar lake
The largest tar lake on the planet is quite hard so people can step on it. People bring tar here to more than 50 countries around the world to make roads.
Videos
Video: Scientific experiment for 70 years
British scientists have just published a video recording a scientific experiment about the motion of a drop of tar throughout ... 70 years.
Medicine - Health
Green bananas and 13 good health effects you don't know
Many people have known about green bananas through the treatment of tar and diarrhea in folk. But actually green bananas have many other benefits: weight loss, anti-canc…