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The pilot who famously reported witnessing the 1997 Phoenix Lights was actually actor Kurt Russell.
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When it comes to extremely long-lived life forms, trees and plants beat animals hands down every time.
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The Google-owned robotics firm has been purchased by Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank.
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Firefighters ended up having to take the toilet outside after the hapless woman became totally stuck.
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Robotics firm Boston Dynamics has released new footage of its unnerving new two-wheeled robot 'Handle'.
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Adriana Irene Macias Hernandez has earned a new world record by lighting 11 candles in 60 seconds.
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Known as Handle, the new robot has been described as 'nightmare-inducing' by founder Marc Raibert.
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Scientists have moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.
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Police in China were left shocked after the man admitted to using the explosive device as a nut cracker.
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Dominant hand preference appears to date back to a time long before modern humans arrived on the scene.
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Police officers attempted to handcuff the contraption while it was recording data about voter opinions.
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Some of Rwanda's mountain gorillas have taken a hands-on approach to tackling the threat of snares.
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A photograph taken of workers at a linen mill over a century ago appears to contain an unexpected extra.
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Scientists have been working on a way to help paralysis patients regain some movement in their hands.
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Archaeologists believe that a giant marble hand in Jordan once belonged to a gigantic statue of Hercules.
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Students were forced to leave their homes after a neighbor attempted a rather extreme cooking recipe.
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Our ability to make a fist and strike an opponent with sizable force might be an evolutionary trait.
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CDC inspections have raised red flags over the handling of deadly viruses being kept in government labs.
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At a mere 21.5 inches tall, Chandra Bahadur Dangi had long been recognized as the smallest man on Earth.
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A new, inexpensive 3D-printed bionic hand could be the key to making prosthetic limbs affordable to all.