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Image copyright Jonkoping county museum. An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer. Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidostern lake while at her family’s holiday home in Jonkoping County. The sword was …
Rich Haridy – The robot is being designed to help combat the country’s declining birthrate and potential future labor shortage (Credit: AIST). A new video from AIST, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, shows a prototype robot designed to …
By Ashley Strickland, CNN – An Artist’s Conception of the Mysterious Planet X. (CNN) While searching for the mysterious Planet X that some astronomers believe lurks on the edge of our solar system, researchers instead found an extremely distant object they dubbed “the …
The goats are being airlifted away from Olympic National Park as a result of their weird cravings. By Ed Mazza – Mountain goats at Olympic National Park in Washington have developed such a taste for human urine and sweat that they’re starting to …
Miners in Australia discover ‘mother lode’ By Evann Gastaldo – Newser Staff – Stock photo. Not the actual gold found. (Getty Images/HDesert). With just one blast, miners in Western Australia unearthed two large quartz rocks containing gold estimated to be worth about …
Grey African parrot vanished from British owner’s home in Torrance, California in 2010 before reappearing in the same town. Rose Troup Buchanan – A grey African parrot, pictured here in México ( Getty ). A very British pet parrot named Nigel has …
A study finds that one member of a previously unidentified genus of the birds could have weighed more than 1,700 pounds. By Douglas Quenqua – An artist’s impression of an extinct elephant bird. A new study has identified a member of one genus …
Hello, tipping point. Brandon A. Weber – Lake Esieh, in Alaska – Chris Mooney. It’s in a part of Alaska that’s in the Arctic Circle. Each day the lake emits methane at a rate equivalent to about 6,000 cows. If more like it …
Cultured meat is the next step in a long history of alternatives to conventional meat. James R. Howe VI, Neuroscience and Genetics, UC San Diego – Produced in partnership with New Harvest – First cultured hamburger – unbaked. Now, more than …
David Szondy – BlckFly is a single-seater electric VTOL aircraft (Credit: Opener). Canadian-based aviation firm Opener Inc. has unveiled its new BlackFly single-seater aircraft, which it bills as a Personal Aerial Vehicle (PAV) and the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing Vertical Take-Off …
