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Italy's plan to save Venice from sinking
enice is a stunning oddity. It is a city built atop around 120 islands, crisscrossed by 177 canals, and is best explored – when on foot at least – via the use of its 391 bridges. It is a watery maze of a city, full of tiny footpaths and tucked away squares, hidden museums and secluded, centuries-old churches.
By Seamons Mahall3 years ago in Earth
All aboard Botswana's Elephant Express
our years ago, Nthoboga Samokwase's father was travelling from the fields where he typically stayed during cropping season towards his home in the village 7km (4.3 miles) away when he had a confrontation with an elephant.
By Seamons Mahall3 years ago in Earth
Archaeologists recovered a 600-year-old man's appearance, which does not resemble a modern man
Human looks are influenced not only by genetics but also by the environment in which they live. Many people may think that people like Anonymous Man (about 1.7 million years ago) and Caveman (about 30,000 years ago), who are very far away from us, do not look like modern people as a matter of course, but people from hundreds of years ago should look just like modern people, right?
By Baudamolova3 years ago in Earth
Reproductive competition is ubiquitous in nature
Reproductive competition is ubiquitous. There is a competition that we can see, for example, male lions fight for the right to mate with lionesses; there is also a competition that we cannot see, for example, sperm competition.
By Bar wall3 years ago in Earth
Top U.S. official: What's more advanced than China and Russia?
In recent years, there have been more and more incidents around the world about the discovery of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The U.S. Department of Defense had previously disclosed a video confirming that the U.S. military had spotted UFOs and was conducting research on them. Recently, the U.S. media disclosed another video, saying that the U.S. Navy had spotted a UFO approaching U.S. warships and disappearing into the water. A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Defense also confirmed the authenticity of the video.
By Stajila3 years ago in Earth
The mystery of "Ghost Air" is solved
The plane hovered at a high altitude, the captain disappeared, and the cabin passengers passed out as if by magic, the flight was therefore called "ghost flight". Such a situation is described to any person listening to the unimaginable. Fortunately, the scientific explanation was clear later, the plane deviated from the course, a lack of oxygen at high altitudes, resulting in the crash.
By Sukkning3 years ago in Earth
What was the bizarre creature caught in China 40 years ago?
One night in the summer of 1995, a fisherman in the Hangzhou Islands ran into the local management department to report a case, the fisherman reflected: in the sea outside the Hangzhou Islands, they found a person with a fishtail beauty, beautiful bun hair messy, sitting on the reef by the sea, it looked at the white moon rising in the sky, and let out a low and strange cry. After receiving the report, the local organization quickly rushed to the sea, but when they came to the fishermen said the place, found the coastal reefs empty, only the white moon still hanging in the air, and the seawater kept hitting the reefs, making a clattering sound. Due to the lack of evidence, the matter was left unresolved. This is an account of the mermaid, the matter was published in the local newspaper, a time that set off a craze for mermaid research. In fact, in the history of ancient and modern China and abroad, on the "mermaid" records, it can be said that there are endless, variety of well-documented mermaid legends and sightings, making the mermaid has become a mystery for ages.
By Deljewitzki3 years ago in Earth
The day the Wu long went to Mars
Recently Chinese space once again came good news, that is, Gentian 1 and it carries the Zhou Ron Mars rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, which makes China after the United States and the Soviet Union outside the third country the landing technology on the surface of Mars, and in Zhou Ron on the day of Mars, NASA and Musk in what? The interesting thing is that on that day, the United States also happened a big event, that is, the United States Mars rover also conducted a lot of experiments, and this Japan and South Korean experts called it a shame, that the success of the Huron to China's space technology has been second only to the United States, other countries claiming to be a space power's speech by China mercilessly smashed.
By Bar wall3 years ago in Earth
The Soviet Union's "human-ape hybrid" experiment, how did it end
The film "Planet of the Apes" is about a human aboard a spaceship to the planet of the apes in 3955 A.D. As a human, Tyler can speak with his voice, speaking "Let go of your stinking paws, you damn dirty ape."
By Carlo Phil3 years ago in Earth
3 Mars Synchronous Communication Satellites!
It is known that Mars itself has an atmosphere, and although the atmosphere of Mars is carbon dioxide and is quite thin compared to the atmosphere of Earth, as long as there is an atmosphere on the planet, there will be a serious weakening of interplanetary radio communication. Moreover, the rotation of Mars is not synchronized with that of the Earth. So once any probe lands on the surface of Mars, communication between it and the Earth headquarters becomes a major problem.
By Stajila3 years ago in Earth
Fungal manipulation of "zombie cicadas"
In 2004, tens of billions of Ruder X cicadas burrowed into the soil in the eastern United States. After up to 17 years of subterranean dormancy, these wake worms feathered into cicadas and are now breaking out of the ground in swarms, eventually estimated to be as many as 30 billion cicadas whose calls will ring out this summer.
By Sukkning3 years ago in Earth
He is the only person in the world who suffers from two extreme illnesses
Lenin once said that one cannot be a "giant in thought and a dwarf in action". In people's inherent impression, giants and dwarfs are inherently opposed to each other, just like Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels, who is both a giant in the land of little people and a dwarf in the land of giants. Generally speaking, special people like dwarfs and giants are manifestations of abnormal development, and once they are ill, they are basically set for this lifetime. However, the world exists from the "dwarf" to grow "giant" people, he suffered from two opposite diseases in his life, to endure the unbearable pain of ordinary people.
By Apostolakis3 years ago in Earth