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Antarctica has around four hundred known subglacial lakes: bodies of liquid water trapped beneath kilometres of ice, kept from freezing by geothermal heat from below and the insulating weight…
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the largest and most recognizable monuments on Earth: a limestone figure with the body of a lion and a human head,…
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The Voyager probes launched in 1977 to study the outer solar system, and they did that job extraordinarily well, returning the first detailed images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and…
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The QWERTY layout is one of the most successful pieces of interface design in history, in the narrow sense that essentially everyone uses it and nobody can dislodge it.…
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Ancient Egypt gets filed in most people's heads as a single block of time. Pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs, gold masks, Cleopatra. All of it feels like it belongs together, roughly…
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Most experiments are designed to produce a result within the working life of the person running them. This one was not, though its creator does not appear to have…