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Professor Invents The Best New Lightbulb In 30 Years
Lighting accounts for about 12 percent of total U.S. energy consumption. Part of the reason the figure is so high is that traditional incandescent bulbs (Edison's filament bulb) eat up a lot of power...
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Actually, That New Study Does NOT Prove That Genetically Modified Food Is...
A paper released in December in the journal GM Crops and Food has created quite a stir — cruddy reporting in The Daily Mail and the anti-biotech blog Independent Science News have twisted a paper about...
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Why Mackerel Has Been Taken Off The Ethical 'Fish To Eat' List
The North-east Atlantic mackerel fishery has joined the three quarters of worldwide stocks that are either declining or being fished beyond a sustainable levelOnly yesterday, it seems, mackerel was the...
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Man Describes The '14 Seconds Of Mayhem' Before His Legs Were Destroyed In A...
Roger Strong has more than 42 years of skiing experience under his belt. But even a lifetime of training on the slopes is no match for an avalanche.In April 2011, Roger was climbing up his favorite...
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'Blade Runner' Or Beijing?
Air pollution levels in the Chinese capital of Beijing have hit hazardous levels. It's both scary to breathe in and to look at.Several people have pointed out that an eerie of photo of Beijing shrouded...
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It Is Going To Feel Like It Is 2 Degrees In New York On Thursday Morning
A nasty cold snap has descended on the Eastern Seaboard and it's not going to get any better, if the meteorologists are right. Expect even colder weather over night and strong winds on Thursday.Here's...
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Tar Sand Mining And The Keystone XL Pipeline Have A Huge Impact On Future...
James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988.The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he's been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most...
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London Has Also Spent Time Engulfed In Deadly Smog
Today I found out about a shocking weather incident that happened in London not very long ago.In December of 1952, the city of London experienced a 5-day bout of “fog” that killed at least 4,000 people...
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After the hottest year on record, cold is making a comeback. Four people have died in the Midwest as records were set in the Chicago Botanic Garden (minus 3 degrees Fahrenheit ) and Cook County, Minn....
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In The Future, We Will Eat 60-Day-Old Bread
Mold is the bane of any bread-lover's existence. The fear of green fuzzy splotches making baked goods unfit to eat within days of purchase may soon be relieved. MicroZap, a company based in Texas, has...
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Historic Antarctic Expedition's Nightmare Scenario Almost Came True
Last month, a group of explorers set off on an expedition to be the first to cross the Antarctic during winter. A six-man Ice Team, led by legendary British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, will travel...
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Cats Are Killing Everything
Humans think of cats as fuzzy and cute. Birds and small mammals have a vastly different perception. Domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals...
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'Suicidal' Polar Journey Reaches First Milestone [PHOTOS]
Once Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his five-man team set off to cross the Antarctic continent during the winter months, the only thing standing between them and the finish line will be 2,400 miles of ice.The...
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Cats Kill Billions Of Animals Each Year — But We're Not Suggesting We...
A report published Tuesday in Nature Communications pinning the yearly death of up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion mammals in the continental United States on domestic cats, has...
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Spectacular 360-Degree Aerial Footage Of The Tolbachik Volcano Erupting
This is the best thing I've seen in some time: A zoomable, panable 360-degree VIDEO of the erupting Tolbachik Volcano, taken from a helicopter. The video goes along with this article in Speigel Online...
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Man Tightropes 200 Feet Above Asphalt With No Harness
Nik Wallenda completed a 200-foot high tightrope walk above a highway without wearing a harness on Wednesday. It took him 9 minutes to stroll 600 feet from start to end. The stunt took place in...
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'Unusual' January Storms Ravaged The East Coast Yesterday
Wednesday was a strange day for weather across the nation. Tornadoes hit the Midwest, thunderstorms shot up the East Coast, and multiple places in New York and New Jersey experienced record-high...
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Living In Beijing Is Worse Than Living In An Airport Smoking Lounge
The air in Beijing is worse than the air inside a U.S. Airport smoking lounge — you know, the special rooms where nicotine fiends suck down cigarette after cigarette in preparation for their smokeless...
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These Are Holland's Beautiful Tulip Fields
Normann Szkop took to the skies to capture the beautiful patchwork of colors that are Holland's tulip fields in full bloom. Here are some of the great images he captured. The photos were taken in April...
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10 Animals That Were Hunted To Extinction
The last known Tasmanian Tiger, a dog-looking creature with a striped body, died in an Australian zoo in 1936.Although a long-held theory suggested that an unknown disease was partly to blame for the...
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