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Amazing pictures from Mars, seem to prove something geeks and Sci-Fi fans have suspected for years - there’s life on Mars.

An amateur astronomer commented: “As far as I’m concerned, this is proof.
“What else could it be but a human-like creature?”
A pile of rocks, perhaps?
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The ant nest structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it’s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1/2 [...]

Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.

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Superfluidity is a phase of matter or description of heat capacity in which “unusual” effects are observed when liquids, typically of helium-4 or helium-3, overcome friction by surface interaction when at a stage, known as the “lambda point ” for helium-4, at which the liquid’s viscosity becomes zero. Also known as a major facet [...]

The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.

Remains found in the Kashmir region of India suggest the fox-sized mammal is the long-sought land-based ancestor of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Research in Nature suggests the animal lived mainly on land but dived into water to escape predators.
Whales [...]