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  • Mathematicians Crack Mystery of Babylonian Clay Tablet ‘Plimpton 322’

    Plimpton 322, the most famous of Old Babylonian tablets (1900-1600 BC), is the world’s oldest trigonometric table, possibly used by Babylonian scholars to calculate how to construct stepped pyramids, palaces and temples, according to a duo of researchers from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

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  • Mystery of Peruvian fireballs finally explained (VIDEO)

    Peruvian scientists have finally unravelled the mystery behind the fireballs that lit up the night sky as they fell to Earth last month.

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