Mysteries of the Universe
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submitted by Grace for team Mysteries of the Universe 137 weeks 19 hours 23 minutes ago
More than 50 years after a 7,600lb (3,500kg) nuclear bomb was dropped in US waters following a mid-air military collision, the question of whether the missing weapon still poses a threat remains.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 139 weeks 8 hours 21 minutes ago
It never fails. Whenever a natural disaster hits, somebody always risks bodily harm to take some video amid the chaos and destruction. Insane? Perhaps, but the fact is that footage from Mother Nature blows away anything you'll see in a summer blockbuster.
This weekend, when several tornadoes...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 121 weeks 2 days 15 hours 53 minutes ago
Archaeopteryx, believed for 150 years to have been the first bird, was probably only a feathered dinosaur that had great difficulty getting off the ground when it lived 150 million years ago, researchers reported this week in the journal PLoS One.
Discovered in 1860, only a year...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 46 weeks 6 days 10 hours 37 minutes ago
Amid the silent corpses a baby cried out - and Japan met its tiniest miracle.
On March 14 soldiers from the Japanese Defense Force were going door-to-door, pulling bodies from homes flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki City, a coastal town northeast of Senda. More...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth for team Mysteries of the Universe 199 weeks 1 day 12 hours 36 minutes ago
You won't find it on any official map and you won't know when you cross the line, but according to some people, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place where dozen of ships, planes and people have disappeared with no good explanation. Since a magazine...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth for team Mysteries of the Universe 112 weeks 4 days 13 hours 17 minutes ago
Dinosaur hunters digging in a New Mexico quarry have unearthed the fossil bones of an early meat-eating beast whose remains tell a remarkable story of evolution that started more than 200 million years ago when the whole world was one supercontinent known as Pangaea.
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submitted by MattMan6 for team Mysteries of the Universe 217 weeks 1 day 20 hours 48 minutes ago
30 seconds of pure mystery as a UFO was seen in a helicopter in New York City.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 108 weeks 1 day 17 hours 32 minutes ago
New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday.
Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build the mammoth pyramids only...(more)
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submitted by Suzy for team Mysteries of the Universe 141 weeks 6 days 9 hours 44 minutes ago
The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, has a snake-like venom in its bite which sends victims into shock and stops their blood from clotting, according to Australian research.
It had been widely believed that deadly bacteria in the carnivorous lizard's mouth helped kill its prey.
But magnetic...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 91 weeks 2 days 23 hours 23 minutes ago
Thousands of years ago, there once stood a place called Punt, a land of gold and ebony, and ivory, frankincense and myrrh.
To the pharaohs who built their palaces along the Nile, the Land of Punt was the source of great treasure. Among the most prized were...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 127 weeks 5 days 39 minutes ago
Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet.
The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous plasma tides on the star. Those powerful tides are in turn warping the planet's zippy less-than-a-day orbit around...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 124 weeks 5 days 9 hours 55 minutes ago
If you’ve ever felt like you go a little cross-eyed after taking a peek at an optical illusion, then you know they can be a pretty intense phenomenon. What your eyes perceive when looking at one of these images is actually a visual illusion; you see...(more)
