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Earlier this year, Antec, one of the leading makers of computer chassis, showcased a unique and somehow odd-looking computer chassis prototype. With a very suggestive name, the Skeleton, Antec's design came to bring a totally new perspective to the way a desktop computer chassis should look. Although it's b... |
14 October 2008
07:08 GMT |
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Recent excavations conducted at the Stonehenge site, the first after 40 years, uncovered a series of pieces of evidence to the fact that pilgrims from all over Europe visited the monument for healing purposes. Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill based their conclusion on the fact that the skel... |
23 September 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Antec, one of the leading manufacturers of computer chassis and enclosures, is among the participants at this year's Computex show, held in Taipei, Taiwan. Attendants at the company's booth at Computex will be able to see the newly released prototype, a computer case which looks more like a furniture produc... |
3 June 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Back in January, construction workers stumbled in the Usme district (southeast of Bogotá, Colombia) upon an ancient burial site made of about one thousand tombs belonging to two mysterious civilizations. The site spans over an area of 12 acres (5 hectares) and could host victims of human sacrifice."The possible victi... |
13 May 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Which is the most powerful creature in the world? You may think of the largest beasts, like elephants or whales, but the Hercules Beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world, can pull a weight up to 850 times its own weight. Can you imagine a lion dragging a 180-tonne blue whale? But the creature has even more tr... |
12 March 2008
06:31 GMT |
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1.The scaffold of our body is made of 206 bones, joined through articulations. The largest human bone is the femur (about 50 cm or 20 in long), while the smallest is the stapes (2.6 mm or 0.1 in) from the middle ear. 2.There are 4 categories of bones: long (cylindrical) which are stretched and slightly curbed, having... |
4 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Traveling 100 years ago in the Vanuatu islands would have meant you were going to lose your head. And you body inside the stomachs of the locals, as they were still practicing cannibalism in certain areas. Now, over 50 headless skeletons have been discovered in one of the oldest cemeteries of the Pacific islands, bel... |
1 November 2007
07:13 GMT |
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The skeletons of a "Romeo and Juliet" couple found last February near Verona, Italy, could be pretty young compared to their newly found Turkish counterparts, 3,000 years older. The two ancient skeletons encountered in each other's arms in a grave in Turkey seem to be the subject of the oldest love story to last... |
19 October 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Dinosaurs may have been big, but these ones dwarf them all: a newly discovered herbivorous dinosaur from Patagonia (Southern Argentina) was 105-foot (32-meter) long! Based on the neck structure, the new dino seems to represent a novel type of Titanosaur.It was dubbed Futalognkosaurus dukei, meaning "giant chief" in ... |
18 October 2007
04:44 GMT |
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290 million years ago we couldn't speak of 'crime scene', but researchers managed to correlate preserved trackways of that age to two species of reptile-like ancient amphibians. Fossils of Diadectes absitus and Orobates pabsti were recently discovered in the Tambach Formation in central Germany. Close ... |
13 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Since 1910, Samsonite is the world's largest maker of luggage, producing everything from large suitcases to smaller toiletries bags. This is what happens when you try to illegally cross the borderline. The Skeleton Suitcase looks wacky enough to make all the Samsonite fans say: "Wow!". It reminds me a lot of the... |
9 July 2007
07:55 GMT |
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Canadian oceanographers are puzzled by bizarre photographs showing the skeleton of a large mammal popping out of an iceberg drifted near the coast of eastern Newfoundland. The six images reveal what looks like a brown rib cage and spinal column, slightly bent, sticking out of the iceberg. "Researchers throughout Cana... |
21 June 2007
04:25 GMT |
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Human sacrifices have been made in almost any human civilization. China is no exception. Chinese archaeologists have unearthed two human skeletons from a tomb in Fengyang, China. The tomb dates from the Qin dynasty period (221 to 206 B.C.). This dynasty is the first to have unified China and this is where the western... |
18 June 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Being light-headed was brought to the extremes by ancient Peruvians. A decapitated skeleton discovered in a tomb of Nasca, the ancient civilization that bloomed in southern Peru from A.D. 1 till 750, offers more explanations about this civilization of head hunters.People belonging to this civilization are famous for ... |
7 June 2007
02:46 GMT |
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From African explorers to the Tarzan's adventures, we have heard about the mysterious elephants' graveyards. Now, researchers have revealed an Ice Age graveyard of the Ice Age's elephants: mammoths. The fossils, some of them complete skeletons of Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, were stored i... |
8 May 2007
14:22 GMT |
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Since its discovery, this beast puzzled the researchers. Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived in western North America 70 to 65 million years ago, till the disappearance of all the dinosaurs, was amongst the largest ever known land predators: the largest females reached 13 m (40 ft) length and 6.8 tons in weight. But when ... |
17 April 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Italian archaeologists have dug the fossil skeleton of a 4 million-year-old whale in the Tuscan countryside, a found that comes to shed a light on reconstructing the image of the prehistoric sea that once covered the peninsula. The 33-foot (10-meter) fossil, dated to the Pliocene epoch, was discovered in almost perfe... |
4 April 2007
04:16 GMT |
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This theory isn't new at all, as a matter of fact, people have discovered that sound can travel by means of human skeleton a long time ago. Now, the problem remaining to be solved was how to make sound audible as it was transmitted through bones? Of course, the solution was vibrations but all the previously imag... |
23 March 2007
08:44 GMT |
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