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Fastest rising mountain

Nanga Parbet, in Pakistan, is growing taller at a rate of 7 mm (0.27 in) per year. The mountain is part of the Himalayan Plateau, formed when India began colliding with the Eurasian continental plate between 30 and 50 million years ago.

Fastest robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube

The fastest time to solve a Rubik’s Cube (3x3x3) by a robot is 3.253 seconds by CUBESTORMER 3, an ARM-powered LEGO robot built by Mike Dobson and David Gilday (both UK) and demonstrated at the Big Bang Fair in the Birmingham NEC, West Midlands, UK, on 15 March 2014. Mike and David took 18 months to build and perfect CUBESTORMER 3. They used commercially available LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits and a Galaxy S4 smartphone powered by an Exynos 5 Octa application processor with an eight-core Continue reading →