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Tom Morgan managed to reach a height of 8,000ft by attaching helium balloons to a camping chair.
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Diver John Craig had been spear fishing off the coast of Western Australia when the incident occurred.
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A new study in Germany has suggested that we are born with an innate fear of snakes and spiders.
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The surprising find has the potential to completely rewrite everything we know of early human history.
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A new study has highlighted a huge reduction in the number of flying insects in Germany's nature reserves.
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The search giant has developed an artificial intelligence capable of learning without human intervention.
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A prehistoric species of bird that preened itself like a flamingo has been discovered in Germany.
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Scientists have linked the brain size of cetaceans to the 'human-like' nature of their social behaviors.
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Zeb Hallock managed to record the star-shaped echinoderm ambling along a beach in North Carolina.
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Tea fanatic Nathan Derek Garner decided to cement his love for the popular brew by changing his name.
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US Vice-President Mike Pence has reiterated America's intentions to send humans back to the lunar surface.
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The new species were all found in east-central and southern Myanmar within the space of just two weeks.
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A man from Casper was picked up by local law enforcement after claiming to have come from the future.
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Petrina Murphy discovered the pythons wriggling around in her shower after they fell from a skylight.
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Thought to be worth more than $250,000, the once-in-a-lifetime discovery was made using a metal detector.
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Lockheed Martin is aiming to place a space station around Mars and to land astronauts on its surface.
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Elon Musk is hoping to land the first astronauts on the surface of Mars within as little as seven years.
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For the first time ever, a method known as 'chemical surgery' has been used to fix a faulty human gene.
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Drought, rather than human hunting, may have wiped out the Tasmanian tiger on the Australian mainland.
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Authorities in the US have arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering her future husband's former wife.