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An answer to the Earhart mystery? And Japan blasts off to Mars

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An answer to the Earhart mystery? New Zealand’s Rubik’s cube robot; Japan blasts off to Mars; and some very sticky sculptures.

The hunt for Amelia Earhart’s plane has come to an end, and not in the way researchers expected.

Four New Zealand university students have built a robot that solved a 4x4x4 Rubik’s Cube in just 9.8 seconds.

A spacecraft has blasted off from Japan on an epic mission to grab at least 10 grams of dust from Mars’s moon Phobos.

More than 100,000 oranges and grapefruits have been transformed into giant artworks in Griffith, NSW.

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