Watch: Skydiver Survives Terrifying Free Fall, Crash
To look at Craig Stapleton today, you'd never know he survived a horrifying skydiving accident on Sunday. Stapleton's spinning free fall and crash was all caught on tape. "I knew it was bad when I was...
View ArticleWatch: Whale Trapped by Ropes Finally Freed
A humpback whale caught in fishing gear off the coast of Hawaii for several days was finally freed by rescuers after several attempts to remove the gear from the mammal. This is the third whale caught...
View ArticleToday's 10 Must-See Photos: 3-14-2013
Babak Tafreshi (TWAN) 1 of 10 Naked-eye Comet PanSTARRS streaks across the northern hemisphere skies on March 12. The comet appears over the western horizon after sunset, joined by the thin, flattened...
View ArticlePhysicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
March 14, 2013 This 2011 image shows a real CMS proton-proton collision in which four high energy electrons (green lines and red towers) are observed. (AP Photo/CERN) GENEVA (AP) - The search is all...
View Article10 Shockingly Cool Lightning GIFs
1 of 10 Experts estimate that lightning occurs around the world roughly 50 times every second. How many of those strikes wind up as super cool GIFs? We have no idea. But not nearly enough. Click...
View ArticleHuman Climate Change Big Factor in Somali Famine
Children line up to receive a meal at a food distribution center in the Hodan area of Mogadishu, Somalia, in this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, photo. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) AIROBI, Kenya (AP) -...
View ArticleNew Zealand Suffering Biggest Drought in 30 Years
This photo from Feb. 26, 2013, shows dry, cracked land near a water reservoir in Kiwitahi, New Zealand. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Christine Cornege) CARTERTON, New Zealand (AP) - Dairy farmer John...
View ArticleBad Weather Postpones Return of 3 Astronauts
Three members of the Expedition 34 crew pose for photos. From left are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander, with Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin. (NASA) MOSCOW (AP) -...
View ArticleReport Makes Chilling Forecast on Northwest Quake
An expanse of beach near Rockaway, Ore., is shown from Nea-kah-nie Mountain. The Oregon coast is considered at risk from a monster earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) SALEM, Ore. (AP) -...
View ArticleWinter Storm to Blast Midwest, East
Just as portions of the Midwest will deal with rounds of snow and rain into the weekend, so will areas in the East. Depending on the time of day they hit, there could be slippery travel. One round of...
View ArticleSnowstorm to Strike Northwest
A storm forecast to roll ashore in the Pacific Northwest Saturday will spread a swath of snow, rain, thunderstorms and wind across a large part of the nation next week. The storm will be strong enough...
View ArticleDid 'Cloud Angel' Appear After Pope's Selection?
(WPTV/Facebook) Some South Florida residents thought they witnessed a miraculous sign from above on Wednesday, when a cloud bearing a striking resemblance to an angel appeared shortly after a new pope...
View Article1 Dead, 4 in Comas After Marathon During Heat Wave
Paramedics treat a marathon runner suffering from heat In Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Roni Schutzer) JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli soldier died of a heat stroke Friday after...
View ArticleToday's 10 Must-See Photos: 3-15-2013
AstroMarshburn/Twitter 1 of 10 This image of Betsiboka River Delta in Madagascar was tweeted on March 15 by Astronaut Thomas H. Marshburn from the International Space Station. He wrote, "Madagascar's...
View Article22 People More Sick of Winter Than You Are
1 of 22 Think you're having a rough winter? Bet you're not as desperate for spring to arrive as these 22 people. Click through for a look at people who must be even more sick of winter than you are....
View ArticleSolar Eruption May Supercharge Northern Lights Friday
This screenshot from a video taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft shows a coronal mass ejection (center) erupting from the sun on March 12, 2013. (NASA/SDO) Editor's note: Aurorae...
View ArticleCould Global Warming Change Tornado Season, Too?
March 15, 2013 A half-mile-wide tornado moves towards Piedmont, Okla., on May 24, 2011. With the planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements like hurricanes and...
View ArticleAntarctica Concerns Grow as Tourism Numbers Rise
An inflatable boat carries tourists past an iceberg along the Antarctic Peninsula in December 2009. (AP Photo/Aurora Expeditions, Andrew Halsall) ROSS ISLAND, Antarctica (AP) - Across most of Earth, a...
View ArticleWatch: Stunning Photos Of Lightning Striking Erupting Volcano
Sure you've heard about lava erupting from a volcano when it blows its top, but what about volcanic lightning? Photographer Martin Rietze took these photos of the Sakurajima Volcano in Japan getting...
View ArticleToday's 10 Must-See Photos: 3-16-2013
Cmdr_Hadfield/Twitter 1 of 10 This photo of Calgary, Canada, was tweeted by Chris Hadfield from the International Space Station on March 15. He wrote, "Calgary in the snows of early March. Time for a...
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