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A heating engineer got the surprise of his life when he opened up a boiler – and was confronted by a swarm of 15,000 bees. Colin Burbridge, 45, was puzzled when his new boiler stopped working just five months after it was fitted in the kitchen of his engineering firm, M8trix Precision Engineering. He called somebody to the offices in ... Read More »

NASA Researchers using Earth-based radar have produced sharp images of a recently discovered asteroid as it moved silently past our planet. Captured on Sunday, the views of the asteroid designated “2014 HQ-124″ are some of the most detailed radar images of a near-Earth asteroid ever obtained. Read More »

British singer Sarah Brightman has confirmed plans to travel to the International Space Station on board Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft next year in order to fulfill her dream to become the first professional musician to sing from space. Brightman, a classically trained soprano known for her starring role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Phantom of the Opera, will spend more than ... Read More »

Dinosaurs dominated the landscape for more than 100 million years, but all that remains today are bones. This has made it difficult to solve a long-standing and contentious puzzle: were dinosaurs cold-blooded animals that lumbered along or swift warm-blooded creatures as depicted in Jurassic Park? Read More »

Researchers have discovered vast water reserves near Earth’s mantle, a finding that could reshape our understanding of where Earth’s water came from. According to a new study by a group of U.S. geophysicists, a reservoir of water three times the volume of all of Earth’s oceans has been discovered inside a layer of blue rock 440 miles deep. Read More »

Researchers may have finally nailed down exactly why a frog’s sticky tongue is so effective for catching prey. Observing the South American horned frog, researchers analyzed how sticky the frogs’ tongues are as well as how much weight they could capture, National Geographic reported. Read More »

The frequency of extreme forms of a climate cycle that can cause devastating droughts and flood events from Indonesia to India to Kenya, may triple in the coming decades, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, ties manmade global warming to shifts in the behavior of a naturally-occurring climate cycle, known as the ... Read More »

In a strange twist of fate, a bachelor party led to what appears to be a major paleontological find. A group of friends were camping at Elephant Butte. Read More »

Few athletes get the chance to play soccer at the World Cup, but even fewer get a chance to play the game in outer-space. Read More »

Experts say the illness behind the massive dolphin die-off here at the Jersey Shore, and along the East Coast last year, is infecting other animals. Officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center say the Minke whale that was found washed up on an Atlantic City Beach last month tested positive for the Morbilli virus. Read More »

Researchers have long wondered if dinosaurs were cold-blooded, like the reptiles with which they are categorized, or warm-blooded, like the birds that are believed to be their closest living relatives. In the latest findings, researchers have proposed that dinosaurs were actually mesotherms, creatures with blood temperatures that come somewhere in between cold- and warm-blooded, Live Science reported. Read More »