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‘Large’ metallic creature — thought extinct for 100 years — rediscovered on island

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Tom Terzin has been fascinated by beetles since he was a child. “They behave like tiny natural robots,” Terzin said in a Jan. 30 University of Alberta news release. “They crawl around obeying simple rules. If there’s an obstacle in their way they usually go around it, which is generally how a robot would behave.” … Read more

Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Fräulein Lieser’ rediscovered 100 years later

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The last known location of “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” by world-renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was in Vienna in the mid-1920s. The vivid painting featuring a young woman was listed as property of a “Mrs Lieser” — believed to be Henriette Lieser, who was deported and killed by the Nazis. The only remaining record of … Read more