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Researchers find that ‘wind turbine syndrome’ is bogus
Complaints about turbine-caused illness tend to surface after wind-energy opponents have made a stink and caused people to worry.
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Australia’s Plan to Nuke the Great Barrier Reef
A recent green light could see radioactive uranium shipped right over one the greatest natural wonders in the world. Ever scuba dived? Or even just put a mask to your face in knee-deep water and looked under the surface at all the brilliant fish and creatures that make a tropical reef their home? It is […]
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America’s infrastructure grade improves to a still very sad D+
For the first time in 15 years, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a better grade than last time.
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Google Maps can now make you a virtual mountain climber
Google Maps gets you from your house to Petco. And now it gets you to the world's highest peaks.
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How scientists are bringing this weird, extinct, baby-barfing frog back from the dead
The frog DNA sat around for 40 years before scientists used cloning technology to bring the species back to life.
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Amazing street artist turns abandoned buildings into creepy, funny faces
Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz paints faces on buildings in out-of-the-way places.
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Watch a penguin play games on an iPad
Considering that touch screens are not exactly optimized for seabird use, they're actually pretty good at it.
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Best Kickstarter ever: This fourth-grade class is building its very own solar array, and you can help
Aaron's Class started their Kickstarter with the goal of raising $800. So far, they've raised $3,500.
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New York is getting rid of rats by sterilizing them
There are too many rats. So they're going to sterilize them. Seems like a plan.
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Red, Bike & Green wants to shift the color balance in bicycling
The Bay Area's bicycling culture was lacking in the diversity department. Jenna Burton set out to change that.
