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Picture shows the design, undated. Since 2020, a multidisciplinary team has been combining science, entertainment, and education and creating Onteco, a realistic future settlement on Mars and the first simulation inside the Futuverse. (Futuverse/Newsflash)

Witcher Dev And NASA Launch Mars Survival Game As Social Experiment To Study How People React To Life On The Red Planet

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:February 24, 2026

Players are being invited to “live” on Mars in a brutal new survival game designed as a giant social experiment — with a NASA-linked research team and a developer behind…

Peter Schubert also known as the 'Puzzle King', from Hallerndorf, a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in the southern German state of Bavaria, who solved the greatest puzzle in the world. (Peter Schubert/Newsflash)

Puzzle King Who Broke World Record Says Size Isn’t Everything And Hardest Challenge Ever Was Just 500 Pieces

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:February 19, 2026

A puzzle enthusiast who broke the record for completing the world’s biggest puzzle – 54,000 pieces! – has revealed that the hardest one he ever did was a modest 500-piece…

Robert De Niro speaks in undated footage. He was invited by a Polish museum to view a 17th-century doppelgangers portrait. (newsX/NF)

Polish Museum Invites Robert De Niro To View 17th-Century Doppelganger Portrait During Trip

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:December 10, 2025

A Polish museum has invited Hollywood actor Robert de Niro to view a portrait of a 17th-century nobleman that many have said looks exactly like him. The National Museum in…

A young man draws a 100-meter giant dragon by stepping on snow in Shahe, Xingtai, Hebei, China, undated. It took him two hours to finish it. (1664415598/AsiaWire)

Chinese Artist Creates Jaw-Dropping Dragon By Walking Over Fresh Snow

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:December 22, 2023

Chinese artist creates a jaw-dropping dragon in the snow by just walking over a fresh snowfall. The artist identified only as Zhao became a sensation after he stepped through the…

Photo shows the painting of Danai Emmanouilidis, undated. The student smuggled her painting into the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. (Newsflash)

Painting Smuggled Into Exhibition By Student Auctioned

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:December 12, 2023

An artist who smuggled one of her own paintings into a museum exhibition where it hung on the wall for weeks before the switch was noticed has auctioned the work…

Photo shows a painting of Newell Convers Wyeth, called Ramona, undated. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. (Bonhams Skinner/Newsflash)

USD 5 Charity Shop Painting Was USD 200,000 Masterpiece

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:October 2, 2023

A painting bought in a charity shop for just USD 5 has been sold at auction as a modern masterpiece for nearly USD 200,000. The lucky buyer, who has not…

Photo shows 'La Coda del Diavolo' (The Devil's Tail), oil on canvas by Fausto Zonaro, estimated 100,000 160,000. The painting will be put up for auction at Dorotheum in Vienna on October 24, 2023. ( Dorotheum/Newsflash)

Long-Lost Painting Of Devil’s Game To Go Under Hammer

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:September 29, 2023

A 19th-century royal painting missing for more than 100 years is to go under the hammer for EUR 160,000 after it was rediscovered in a private collection. The artwork, 'La…

Image shows the Gabriel Lemboeck violin that a 33-year-old musician forgot on the train in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Mar. 27, 2023. The instrument was estimated at EUR 80,000 (GBP 70,461). (BMI/Newsflash)

Woman Forgets 165-Year-Old Violin Worth GBP 70K On Train

Post author:Michael Leidig
Post published:April 20, 2023

Austrian police have appealed for help in tracking down a 16-year-old violin that was forgotten in a train by its 33-year-old woman owner. She had been reportedly travelling from Baden…

Image shows painting named 'Bust of a Woman', by Pablo Picasso from 1971. It will go under the hammer in the city of Cologne, Germany, for the first time in 25 years at the value of between EUR 1.5 million (GBP 1.3 million) and EUR 2.5 million (GBP 2.2 million). (VAN HAM Kunstauktionen KG/Newsflash)

Picasso Work Valued Up To GBP 2.2m Under Hammer

Post author:William McGee
Post published:March 31, 2023

A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso estimated at EUR 1.5 million (GBP 1.3m) to EUR 2.5 million (GBP 2.2m) is due to go under the hammer in Germany. The…

A nine-year-old boy transforms an eggplant drawing to a dream castle in Dali, Yunnan in China, undated. He did another one with a corn. (hhgg2013/AsiaWire )

Boy’s Astonishing Architectural Drawings Based On Vegetable Outlines

Post author:Marija Stojkoska
Post published:February 10, 2023

A nine-year-old boy who draws his dream castles in the tiniest detail around the basic shape of everyday items like aubergines or an ear of corn has become an online…