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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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  • US scientists create metallic hydrogen on Earth ending 80-year quest for ‘holy grail of high-pressure physics’

    US scientists have succeeded in squeezing hydrogen so intensely that it has turned into a metal, creating an entirely new material that might be used as a highly efficient electricity conductor at room temperatures.

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