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Climate change will help weird killer bugs take over the world
As a new study shows, these tree-attacking insects thrive in hotter places -- which, soon enough, will be everywhere.
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Flying worst class: Air travel is about to get bumpier and barfier
Thanks to climate change, what remains of glamorous air travel will soon be soaked in vomit and spilled Diet Cokes.
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Your internal organs have a sense of smell
New research indicates that organs that we usually don't think of as having anything to do with smelling have the same olfactory receptors as cells in found in noses.
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The next popemobile could be powered by bike
This is a serious vehicle. It has a bulletproof booth for the pope, with air conditioning powered by rooftop solar panels.
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London’s going to power 40,000 homes with used kitchen grease
You know how you're not supposed to pour oil and bacon fat down the drain? Before that oil and fat gets discarded, the city's going to collect it and use it to run "the world's biggest fat-fuelled power station."
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Baby pig in a sweater and socks is the world’s cutest knitwear model
There is no reason for this snoozing baby pig wearing socks and a sweater. No reason except COME ON, BABY PIG WEARING SOCKS AND A SWEATER.
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Paris will harvest energy from its marathon runners
On Sunday, 40,000 runners will expend A LOT of energy running all 26 miles of the Paris marathon. But for approximately 0.06 percent of the course, not all of that energy will go to waste.
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Newly discovered species of spider is as big as your face
Have you ever been to Northern Sri Lanka? If you haven't, don't go now, because they have just discovered a new type of tarantula there and the thing is huge.
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Resistance was futile: True confessions of a fallen vegan
We join our heroine in week three of a monthlong experiment in plant-based living. All is not well in Veganville.
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American kids still pretty lead-poisoned
More than half a million kids under 5 are suffering from high blood lead levels, according to the CDC.
