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This portable solar cooker can make you dinner in 20 minutes

Toss this puppy in your car for your next camping trip, and prepare for awesome baked (or fried, or boiled) goodness.

Spaghetti ice cream might be the grossest thing ever

If you like perplexing your taste buds, have WE got the treat for YOU.

Chobani recalls Greek yogurt that tastes like wine

Preservative-free food is awesome -- unless it makes you sick.

Bird’s-eye view: Why crows thrive in the urban jungle

With biodiversity on the wane, crows' prospects are inextricably linked with ours. Find out why in this video.

Ask Umbra: Is there an easier way to get natural gas?

If methane is produced naturally, by everything from cows to wetlands, why do drillers go to such extreme lengths to get at underground methane reserves?

Forget teens; you should be worried about drunk moose gangs

If there's one thing that humans and moose can agree on, it's that one of the best parts of fall is seasonal, quite alcoholic cider.

In unlikely alliance, Wisconsin libertarians back solar plan

The Wisconsin Libertarian Party endorsed a clean energy group’s proposal to let customers lease solar panels.

Hundreds of millipedes crashed a train in Australia

And it wasn't the first time this has happened, either.

$1,000 question: Did the population bomb ever explode?

Paul Sabin's new book "The Bet" recounts an archetypal conflict between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon. On the line: $1,000 and the future of the planet.

Rent this chicken

Owning backyard chickens isn't exactly a pile of roses. Why not rent?