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Over the past several years, Belgian manufacturing firm Materialise has 3D-printed items such as running shoes, a dress and a wheelchair. Now, the company has created something a little larger – a complete wooly mammoth skeleton.
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ScienceFor three years, an international team of scientists surveyed the floor of the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. Now, radiocarbon tests have confirmed that the remains of an ancient ship discovered last year date from 400BC, officially making it the world's oldest known intact shipwreck.
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SciencePtahmes was the mayor of Egypt's capital city of Memphis during the 13th century BC, and when his body was entombed, a mysterious substance was put in with it. According to a new study, that substance has turned out to be what is the oldest solid cheese ever discovered.
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A file of 148 documents belonging to Alan Turing including correspondence, official letters, and a handwritten draft of a BBC radio program on artificial intelligence has been discovered in a filing cabinet at the University of Manchester.
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If you've ever dreamed of living in an Italian castle but don't have the deep pockets required, a new scheme by the Italian government may be of interest. It's handing out longterm leases to 103 castles, villas, and other historic buildings free of charge – providing you're willing to do some DIY.
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You may not think of a wedding cake as being the type of thing that gets vandalized, but that's what happened to a replica of the cake that was presented to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1947. Now, thanks to 3D scanning technology, a super-accurate copy of that replica is being recreated.
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The Eveready Autoped was the world's first scooter, manufactured in New York from 1915 to 1921. It sold for just US$100, offering 125 mpg (1.9 l/100km) transportation at 25 mph (40 km/h) ... and there's one about to be auctioned.
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With the plethora of unusual tricycle designs we've seen lately, it's easy to forget that some of the weirdest trikes came out over a century ago. The Coventry Rotary tricycle was one such beast, and you may soon be able to buy an original example on auction.
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A presentation pair of pistols given by General Marie Paul Joseph Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, to Simon Bolivar, will go under the hammer on April 13, with estimates putting the price at a record-setting level of between US$1.5 million and $2.5 million.
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Eddie Paul built the original cars for "Grease", "Back to the Future" and "Fast and the Furious" – and now he's preparing to go into production with a series of replicas of Duesenberg Torpedo Phaeton convertibles from the 1930s.
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Ancient Greece's Colossus of Rhodes was listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, a group of architects and engineers want to build a modern successor.
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This July, we heard about how a group of aviation enthusiasts were building a flying replica of the radical Bugatti 100P racing aircraft. This Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it made its first flight – and did a nose-plant at the end.
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