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The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive and kind of uninteresting. Our planet deserves so much more!...
7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered
Man I tell you, you can never have enough mushrooms... it's really hard to put my finger on it, but for some reason they're just really awesome; and glow in...
Immortality – just 20 years away
Raymond Kurzweil is one of the most prolific inventors and futurists; he's the one who developed text to speech synthesis and a synthesizer that develops and even creates poetry, among...
Huge dust storm chokes Sydney
A significant part of Australia's east coast, including country's biggest city, Sydney, has been engulfed by a shroud of red dust blown mostly from the desert outback. Visibility was...
8 examples of photometeors w/ pics
The response to the awesome phenomena article was amazing, I'd really like to thank you all! I was really surprised to see how many of you actually contributed and sent...
The rebirth of Hubble – Hubble’s first pics since Servicing Mission 4
Hubble has had a lot of problems in recent days, but now the telescope we love the most is up an running, and in a great shape too. "This marks...
Huge sustainable plan in the Incheon Free Economic Zone will unite North and South Korea via world’s longest bridge
[caption id="attachment_2221" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="OnJin-gun island will be transformed as a sustainable resort and the masterplan will eventually connect South to North Korea and the airport via the world’s longest...
Mermaid sightings in Israel lead to 1.000.000$ reward
Locals, fishermen and tourists in the Israelian town of Kiryat Yam have been reporting repeated sightings of what they believe to be a mermaid, the mythological creature most often describe...
8 totally awesome natural phenomena you probably didn’t know about
The Maelstrom Small maelstrom. Photo by Shutnic. When you hear a name like maelstrom, you just know it's about something wicked. Introduced in English by Edgar...
The deadliest creature in the world
So, microorganisms and other humans aside, what do you think is the deadliest creature in animal kingdom? A snake, perhaps a lion or bear, a scorpion perhaps? Neah, not even...
Giant files: Nomura and Lion’s mane jellyfish
The Nomura Jellyfish Nomura Jellyfish are a large species of Japanese jellyfish, that seems to be giving them some big headaches. They can grow up to 2 meters in diameter...
Nasa’s picture of the day
This is a wicked one for sure! Basically, nobody really knows what's going on there, except for the fact that it probably involves a supermassive black hole. The whole picture...
Ants – more rational than humans
Researchers from Arizona State University and Princeton University conducted a study that goes to show that our 'multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed' selves come way behind ants when it comes...
39 unbelievable underwater pictures that will blow your mind
First of all, I don't know for sure if any of these are shopped or tampered in any way; underwater photography is really peculiar and has its own ways of manipulating...
9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days
Nowadays, people seem to be more and more stressed, even average people that at least apparently don't take big gambles. Researchers have put a lot of time and money into...
Half of ALL americans use vibrators
Ladies and gents (really, stay away from this one kids; trust me, save whatever is left of your innocence), I've got to admit this: I thought I forgot how to...
Haiti needs water
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with it's dazzling 70% unemployment rate and more than 3 quarters of the people living in extreme poverty. To top it...
Girl that doesn’t age baffles scientists: a 16 year old is an infant
Physiologically speaking, Brooke Greenberg is an infant with the mind of toddler. Only thing is that she turned 16 just this Janary. It's hard to estimate the parents opinion, especially...
Meet the magnetic superatoms
Virginia Commonwealth University managed to discover what they have called a 'magnetic superatom', a stable cluster of atoms that can 'impersonate' various elements from the periodic table, that could be...
Top 10 new animals of 2008
Every year, the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists announce the top 10 new species described in the past year, and...
