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Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova may be contemplating a haircut as her long pony tail probably cost her the long jump world title, Italian paper La Gazzetta dello Sport said on Saturday.

Like a volcano, but with a garden hose. A British team is proposing to launch a giant balloon, the size of a football stadium, and a 12 mile garden hose to pipe chemicals into the stratosphere to slow global warming.

A Florida funeral home has debuted a new alternative to cremation, known as the Resomator, that uses heated alkaline water to dissolve bodies in about three hours. Why do we need an alternative to cremation in the first place? Turns out cremation devices use lots of energy, release a fair amount of carbon emissions, and, in the U.K., are responsible for 16% of mercury emissions.

For the first time in almost four decades, a new bird species has been discovered in the United States. But there's a catch: the Bryan's Shearwater was identified in a museum collection.

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space | Popular Science

Computer Models Show that Towing an Iceberg to a Drought Area Could Actually Work | Popular Science

Trolling a Taiwan fish market for data, fish scientists reeled in a surprising catch—a deepwater shark unknown to science.

Chinese scientists have discovered a near Earth asteroid that, with a slight push, could enter Earth orbit...

Photo courtesy of Survival International While the Amazon rainforest is certainly known to be teeming with life, it turns out that the people who live there are too.

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation.

Marijuana, cocaine and other controlled substances have a potent effect--not just on the human brain, but on the world's natural resources.

A new method for detecting bruises from collisions with other cosmoses could "forever change how we view our own universe," experts say.

This piece of driftwood has been in an Oregon lake for well ove 100 years!