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The origin of the picture quiz on Reddit and Twitter is unknown but it shows 13 groups of emoji designed to represent London tube stations. However, no-one can agree on which station clue number 12 (pictured) refers to, with theories ranging from Canary Wharf, to Mornington Crescent or the fact it is a trick question.
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- Did China discover AMERICA? Ancient Chinese script carved into rocks may prove Asians lived in New World 3,300 years ago
- Pluto's bizarre terrain revealed: Latest images show unexplained 'complex' shapes on the dwarf planet ahead of historic flyby
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- The fiendish emoji quiz taking over Twitter: Cryptic image shows London's tube stations depicted as icons...but can YOU identify number 12?
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Forget Street View, Nasa's new 'crater view' of Mars lets you journey around the red planet in high-resolution
The zoomable map provides detailed views of landmarks such as Olympus Mons, the largest-known volcano in the solar system, measuring 15 miles (24 km) high. Pictured here is Shalbatana Vallis, a prominent outfloow channel. Across the map, gigantic rift valleys fracture the surface over vast distances. Studying these landforms reveals how Mars' environment has gone through tremendous changes over time, and understand how life might possibly have survived there to the present. The inset image shows the planet's South Pole.
Nasa selects four astronauts to fly first commercial space missions: Boeing and Space X test flights scheduled for 2017 could bring landing on Mars closer to reality
SpaceX and Boeing are aiming for test flights to the space station by 2017. It will be the first launch of astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida, since the space shuttles retired in 2011. The commercial crew astronauts are:
Sunita Williams, a two-time resident of the International Space Station (pictured top right) and right to left, bottom row: Eric Boe, part of shuttle Discovery's last crew, Air Force Col. Robert Behnken, until recently head of the astronaut office and Retired Marine Col. Douglas Hurley.
Watch Microsoft HoloLens 'unwrap' the human body: Video reveals how the augmented reality headset lets doctors get under a patient's skin
The video was released by Microsoft in partnership with Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland. Medical students are using the augmented reality headset to learn more about human anatomy from looking at specific types of fractures to examining the intricacies of the heart and seeing the muscular and vascular systems in 3D (pictured).
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Shark-CANO! Sharks are filmed swimming inside the crater of an active volcano 150ft underwater
The video was recorded by ocean engineer Brennan Phillips and a team of researchers in and around the active underwater volcano Kavachi (seen erupting in 2000), near the Solomon Islands. The team wanted to study hydrothermal activity in particular and learn more about the geology of such underwater craters. At depths of 147ft (45 metres), an underwater camera spotted a sixgill stingray (pictured top left), as well as two species of shark including the silky shark (pictured bottom left) and the scalloped hammerhead.
Vikings? It was the CELTS that wore horned helmets: Exhibition reveals the history and stunning beauty of ancient Celtic culture
The exhibition, called Celts: Art and Identity, will open at the British Museum in London in September and continue in Edinburgh in March 2016. It will be the first major British exhibition in 40 years to tell the story of the Celts through the stunning objects they made including a distinctive horned helmet (pictured left), beautiful brooches and mirrors (top middle and right) and an intricate bowl (bottom right).
The peculiar pattern found all over the universe: Nasa shots reveal striking 'surfer waves' surrounding Earth and Saturn
Nasa data has revealed these shapely patterns, called Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, are more common at the boundary of near-Earth space than previously thought . The pattern is created when a fast fluid, such as wind, moves past a slower one, such as water. In Earth's magnetic field (left), they are present around 20 per cent of the time. They can also be found on Saturn (top right) and in the clouds on Earth (bottom right).
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