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Drones could plant one billion trees a year
VIDEO Oct 6, 2015A new UK-based startup company has an ambitious plan to automate the process of planting trees.
'Superman' crystal can store data for eons
Oct 3, 2015A crystal-based storage mechanism has been developed that can store data for millions of years.
Fossil flea carries ancient plague bacteria
Sep 30, 2015A 20 million-year-old flea trapped in amber is thought to be carrying the ancestor of Black Death.
Scientists reveal color of prehistoric bats
Sep 29, 2015Samples of fossilized fur have made it possible to determine what color bats were 49 million years ago.
Ancient bacteria could hold key to longevity
Sep 21, 2015A 3.5 million-year-old bacteria found in Siberia could make it possible for humans to live longer.
Sweden was hit by a double meteor strike
Sep 14, 2015Two huge meteors simultaneously slammed in to what is now Sweden roughly 468 million years ago.
Polar continent once existed in the Arctic
Sep 13, 2015A large land mass was thought to have twice spanned today's Arctic region millions of years ago.
There are still three trillion trees on Earth
Sep 3, 2015The number of trees left in all the forests on Earth is now believed to measure in the trillions.
Architects propose real-life Minas Tirith
Aug 15, 2015A new IndieGoGo campaign hopes to raise almost $3 billion to build the fictional Lord of the Rings city.
World population to reach 9.7 billion by 2050
Aug 4, 2015The UN's latest estimates indicate that the Earth's population will grow even faster than expected.
Carnegie tried to bribe Germans to stop WWI
Jul 30, 2015Billionaire Andrew Carnegie actually tried to put a stop to World War I by bribing Kaiser Wilhelm II.
NASA releases new 'blue marble' Earth image
Jul 21, 2015The breathtaking image was captured one million miles away by the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
Hawking helps launch major new hunt for ET
Jul 20, 2015A new $100 million endeavor has been launched to look for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
$5 trillion asteroid to pass us by on Sunday
VIDEO Jul 17, 2015A nearby asteroid loaded with a platinum core is thought to be worth an unfathomable amount of money.
Ancient volcano cluster found near Sydney
VIDEO Jul 14, 2015Four extinct volcanoes dating back 50 million years have been found on the ocean floor in Australia.
$1M offered for missing Wizard of Oz slippers
Jul 13, 2015An anomyous millionnaire has offered a huge reward to help identify who stole Dororthy's ruby slippers.
5 billion-year-old deep space signal detected
Jul 7, 2015Astronomers in Australia have picked up cosmic radio waves originating from a distant galaxy.
Mystery surrounds bizarre sea creature
Jun 25, 2015A 508 million-year-old spiky sea creature was so strange that scientists decided to name it Hallucigenia.
8 million dog mummies unearthed in Egypt
Jun 21, 2015The ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of death Anubis was worshipped by huge numbers of people.
Giant prehistoric bat walked on all fours
Jun 21, 2015Scientists have discovered a species of bat that was three times the size of any that are alive today.
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