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5Pointz Graffiti Revived at New Museum of Street Art

A 20-story stairwell at a Manhattan Hotel brings together the works of street artists who worked at the now-demolished 5Pointz outdoor gallery

September 20, 2018

Five gray tree squirrels in Wisconsin were found with their tails hopelessly knotted together, requiring some help from a wildlife rehab

September 18, 2018

The Sunspot Observatory in New Mexico was closed for ten days due to a ‘security threat,’ though aliens and solar flares have been ruled out

September 17, 2018

The satirical awards celebrate some of the strangest scientific research

September 14, 2018

The new report finds that one in nine people are undernourished globally.

A new report warns that war and increased natural disasters from climate change are beginning to reverse gains made in recent decades

September 13, 2018

Cool Finds

Military Invests in ‘Molar Mic’ That Can Route Calls Through Your Teeth

Too lazy to pick up the phone? Open wide… this new device latches onto your chompers to transmit sound via the cranial bones

September 13, 2018

FDA’s largest enforcement action to date gave warnings and fines to 1,300 retailers and requested plans to prevent teen vaping from five manufacturers

September 12, 2018

Solar panel in Death Valley National Park.

The bold legislation was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown earlier this week

September 12, 2018

Cool Finds

The Catch of the Day Is a 10,000-Year-Old Gigantic Deer Skull

Last week, Irish fishermen pulled up the skull and horns of an extinct great elk, which could have 12-foot-wide antlers

September 10, 2018

An artist's rendering of a space elevator.

Two mini-satellites will test elevator motion in space as part of research for an elevator between Earth and low orbit

September 5, 2018

Authorities are unsure whether tiny hole in a Soyuz capsule was created in a production facility on the ground or on board the ISS

September 5, 2018

The shoes were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 and were recently recovered in Minneapolis

September 4, 2018

The new book tells the tale of Tuor, a man living in an age where the world is dominated by the dark lord Melko—known in other Tolkien books as Morgoth.

The author tinkered with and rewrote The Fall of Gondolin, one of his first tales of Middle-earth, many times during his career

August 29, 2018

A new system at Kenya’s port of Mombasa allows dogs to detect elephant tusk, rhino horn and other illegal goods with one quick sniff

August 28, 2018

The first crop of industrial hemp grown in centuries was recently harvested at Mount Vernon

August 24, 2018

Giraffe pillows and hide for sale in Florida.

An investigation shows 40,000 giraffe products representing 4,000 of the endangered animals have been legally imported over the last decade

August 24, 2018

Trending Today

Why Hawaiian Hurricanes Are So Rare

The islands are usually protected by their remoteness and a stable high pressure system, which has gone wonky in the last year

August 23, 2018

Fourteen years after being stripped of his citizenship, Germany finally takes in Jakiw Palij, who was trained by the SS at Trawniki

August 22, 2018

Kofi Annan, the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, passed away this weekend.

The Ghanian diplomat, who died this past weekend, reshaped the mission of the U.N. during a lifelong career as a civil servant

August 20, 2018

Oil exploration is set to begin near the habitat of the critically endangered coelacanth, a type of fish that has survived over 400 million years

August 20, 2018