These newly unearthed statues represent two mythological creatures - a snake, which is a symbol of the underworld, and Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog of hell in Greek mythology. Dated to the 2nd Century BC, these marble statues would have guarded the entrance to a deadly cave in the ancient city of Hierapolis in Turkey.

A glimpse into the mind of a Nobel Prize winner - this doodle was made by physicist T.D. Lee during talks with Chen Ning Yang, while both were visiting scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US in 1956. Their discussions led to radical questioning of one of physics' basic principles and resulted in the duo being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for discovering that the supposedly absolute law of parity conservation had been violated. ...

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According to the description, this is one litre of bottled air from the area affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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The MessagePad, released in 1993, was the first in a series of Newton devices to be developed and sold on the market. The 1.4 pound physical device was collaboratively manufactured by Apple and Sharp. The MessagePad packed a 20MHz ARM 610 RISC processor, 640 kilobytes of RAM, and a 336x240 monochrome LCD touch screen with stylus and handwriting recognition support. It was powered by four AAA batteries. It ran Newton OS version 1.05 and cost $699.99.

The Newton platform was axed from the Apple product line for two main reasons.

(1) The early Newton OS that shipped with the original MessagePad proved to be not so user friendly, especially when it came to the unpredictable handwriting recognition software. The press and other media outlets (inc ...