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Nepal launches new bid to measure Mt Everest
6-18-2017 |
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The Department of Survey is aiming to find out just how tall the world's tallest mountain actually is.
Woman gets her hand stuck inside a toilet
VIDEO 4-20-2017 | 21
Firefighters ended up having to take the toilet outside after the hapless woman became totally stuck.
Vast Canadian river disappeared in four days
4-18-2017 | 11
Last year the Slims river totally vanished in what is thought to be a modern case of 'river piracy'.
Tallest men trace back to mammoth hunters
4-13-2017 | 19
A new study has linked a prehistoric population of mammoth hunters with some of today's tallest people.
Firm plans to build upside-down skyscraper
3-29-2017 | 27
The bizarre plan would see the world's tallest building being hung upside-down from an orbiting asteroid.
Earth was once covered in giant mushrooms
VIDEO 3-22-2017 | 9
Back when the tallest trees were only a few feet high, huge towers of fungus grew in excess of 8 meters.
Metallic hydrogen created for the first time
VIDEO 1-27-2017 | 16
Scientists have succeeded in squeezing hydrogen to such an extreme that is has turned in to a metal.
Did Nepal earthquake shrink Mount Everest ?
1-25-2017 | 8
Scientists are set to launch a new expedition to find out if the world's tallest mountain has shrunk.
Curiosity discovers metallic meteorite on Mars
1-18-2017 | 10
The rover has come across what scientists believe to be an iron-nickel meteorite on the Martian surface.
Great dane is crowned world's tallest dog
VIDEO 12-31-2016 | 10
Despite starting out as the runt of the litter, four-year-old Freddy has grown to be 40.75 inches tall.
Scientists create world's smallest snowman
12-23-2016 | 13
A team at the University of Western Ontario have managed to build a snowman a mere three microns tall.
Mystery sound heard near the Mariana Trench
VIDEO 12-18-2016 | 14
A mysterious metallic sound recorded by researchers could actually be a never-before-heard whale call.
Bleak figures show giraffes face extinction
12-8-2016 | 113
The world's tallest animal has suffered a worrying decline in numbers over the last three decades.
World's tallest tropical tree discovered
11-15-2016 | 6
A tree measuring a whopping 309ft tall has been identified alongside 49 other runners-up in Borneo.
New study exonerates HIV/AIDS 'patient zero'
10-27-2016 | 3
The man thought to be responsible for bringing the virus to North America was actually totally innocent.
Italian town unveils working wine fountain
VIDEO 10-21-2016 | 4
Installed in Ortona, Abruzzo, the fountain offers an inexhaustible supply of wine to thirsty visitors.
Stellar desert discovered in the Milky Way
8-3-2016 | 5
A vast expanse of space totally devoid of new stars has been found at the heart of our own galaxy.
Bug may invalidate 15 years of brain research
7-8-2016 | 1
A computer software bug has potentially rendered over a decade's worth of brain studies totally void.
Doctors remove live grenade from man's head
6-11-2016 | 14
A Colombian soldier had been on patrol when he accidentally fired a grenade launcher at his own head.
Is Everest really Earth's tallest mountain ?
5-18-2016 | 9
According to scientists, Chimborazo in Ecuador is actually quite a bit taller than Mount Everest.
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