Watch: Wingsuit Pilot Espen Fadness Takes Giant Leap
We're big fans of the wingsuit videos hitting the Web these days, and this new short is no exception. Featuring pilot Espen Fadness, it opens with him perched on the edge of a mountain in what looks...
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East Coast Weather Satellite Fails, Spare Used
Artist's conception of the GOES-13 satellite. (NASA) WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. weather satellite that tracks the East Coast and Atlantic hurricanes is broken. Meteorologists are scrambling to fill in...
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Hurricane Miriam Churns in Pacific off Mexico's Coast
(NOAA) MIAMI (AP) - U.S. forecasters say Miriam is currently a Category 2 hurricane churning well off Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said...
View ArticleWatch: Extreme Hail Storm Pounds Lake Erie Beach
The severe storm's high winds and pounding hail struck Mentor Headlands Beach on Lake Erie over the weekend, forcing one beachgoer to seek shelter from an unexpected object. Permalink | Email this |...
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Avalanche Deaths Might be Victims of Tibet Crisis
Rescuers search for survivors and victims in the debris field of an avalanche on Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal. (AP) KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The climbers killed in a weekend avalanche in the...
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'Zombie Bees' Swarm Washington State
(AP) SEATTLE - The infection is as grim as it sounds: "Zombie bees" have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die. And experts say the condition has...
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Skydiver Plans Supersonic Jump for Oct. 8
A crew member adjusts the space capsule of the Red Bull Stratos mission in the pressure chamber at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 24. (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The...
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A Campfire for Any Occasion
The scent of stale coffee wafts through otherwise all-too-sterile office halls. The guy in the cubicle to your left must have showered in Axe Body Spray. And somebody microwaved Indian food in the...
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Watch: Wild Sea Foam Floods Scottish Village
Residents of Footdee, a small fishing village in Aberdeen, Scotland, awoke to find their houses, cars and streets covered in white this morning. No, it wasn't an early snowstorm that blanketed the...
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Stink Bug Invasion Promises Foul Fall
Brown marmorated stink bugs feed on "about anything that makes a seed or a fruit," said Ames Herbert, a Virginia Tech University entomologist. (David R. Lance, USDA | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0...
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Hubble Telescope Reveals Farthest View Into Universe Ever
Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep...
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Human Finger Found in Idaho Trout
Priest Lake, Idaho. (iStockphoto) SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A human finger found inside a fish at Idaho's Priest Lake has been traced to a wakeboarder who lost four fingers in an accident more than two...
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The World's Best Places to Go Hot Air Ballooning
Comstock 1 of 11 You can soar above the Earth in a variety of aircraft, but perhaps none offers the breathtaking experience of a hot air balloon. You barely notice you've lifted off as the basket...
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Watch: How the Drought Turned Crops to Crisp
BENNINGTON, Nebraska (AP) - One 79-year-old U.S. farmer let The Associated Press show the world what he's weathered during the country's worst drought in decades. Using a camera powered by solar...
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Miriam Downgraded to Tropical Storm Off Mexico's Coast
MIAMI (AP) - U.S. forecasters say Miriam is rapidly weakening and has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm well off Mexico's Baja California peninsula. The National Hurricane Center in...
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Vampire Squid: Garbage Disposals of the Sea?
A vampire squid in a typical feeding position, drifting horizontally in the deep sea with one of its filaments extended. (Credit: (c) 2011 MBARI) Despite their name, vampire squid are not deep-sea...
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Beijing to Give Clearer Indication of Air Quality
Aerial view of illuminated cityscape, Beijing, China (Alamy) By Louise Watt BEIJING (AP) - Beijing authorities have completed a network of monitors that will more accurately measure air quality in the...
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Private Space Station Delivery to Launch Sunday
The International Space Station (Wikimedia) By Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A private company is on the verge of launching another cargo ship to the International Space Station. On Sunday...
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Chilly Temperatures Extend Across Much of the East
Much of the East will begin the workweek with chilly temperatures on Monday morning, as a cold dome of high pressure extending from Southern Plains through the Ohio Valley shifts northeastward into...
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Watch: Mesmerizing Southern Lights over Antarctica
This time-lapse video features images taken at Concordia Research Station in Antarctica. The station resides on the Antarctic Plateau and operates year-round. RELATED ON SKYE: 20 Dazzling Photos of...
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