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NASA wants to send a quadcopter drone to Titan

NASA wants to search Saturn's moon Titan for life but they're having trouble coming up with a good way to cover a large territory and obtain samples. Now they think they may have a good solution: A 22-pound quadcopter that will work from a mothership. After reading about it, it's a really cool idea. Larry Matthies—a Senior Research Scientist and the supervisor of the Computer Vision Group

The cruellest festival in the world? China advances its summer solstice DOG-EATING celebrations to avoid protests by animal rights activists

Residents have begun killing and eating dogs early in celebration of the summer solstice in a bid to avoid protests by animal rights campaigners. Some residents of the southern Chinese city of Yulin started gathering last weekend and eating dog meat and lychees to celebrate the longest day of the year, ahead of Saturday's actual solstice, state media reported. The locals wanted to avoid protests

8 Flowers That Look Like Something Else

Flowers come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colors, leading to a wide array of appearances. You’ve likely seen many varieties in your life time, but some of these flowers resemble other figures or animals so much that it’s downright shocking. 1. Monkey Orchid (Dracula Simia) This epiphytic orchid has an arrangement of column petals and a lip that make it look just like a mon

5 Most Mysterious Photos From Mars

In the video below is a collection of what videographer Dark5 considers the most mysterious photos captured on Mars, from what appears to be artificial lights shining up from underground to the Mars monolith with a compilation of images that should be impossible of seemingly humanoid figures to animals and even signs of an ancient civilization with technology far more advanced that we are today

Extreme Rope Swing: Daredevil Celebrates Successful Slackline Crossing With Incredible Rope Swing

A CANADIAN slackliner celebrates a successful crossing without safety equipment - by going for a SWING. Vancouver-based Spencer Seabrooke tried a few practice runs over the North Gully of Stawamus Chief Mountain in Squamish, British Columbia. The 25-year-old then removed his safety harness in order to attempt a "free solo" crossing over 200m drop

New Type Of Computer Capable Of Calculating 640TBs Of Data In One Billionth Of A Second, Could Revolutionize Computing

Let me introduce The Machine- HP’s latest invention that could revolutionize the computing world. According to HP, The Machine is not a server, workstation, PC, device or phone but an amalgamation of all these things. It’s designed to be able to cope with the masses of data produced from the Internet of Things, which is the concept of a future network designed to connect a variety of objects

The science behind double tornadoes

Twin tornadoes can mow down small towns in minutes, and although unusual they can develop in several ways. Most tornadoes, either single or double, are associated with supercell thunderstorms, which have a large, vertical column of rotating air. When wind blows in different directions and at varying speeds, supercells tend to form tornadoes. This is where it gets tricky. Jane J. Lee has done

Underground water reservoir with 3X as much water as Earth’s oceans found 700km deep in Earth’s crust

This could be where the oceans come from The image above, which shows all of the Earth’s surface water in one place, gives you an idea of how big this new discovery is. Scientists have found, about 700 kilometers deep in the Earth’s crust, a very large reservoir that holds about three times the water volume that can be found in the ocean. The water is trapped in a type of blue rock called r

This Mama Thought Her Baby Was Dead. Their Amazing Reunion Brought Me To Tears!

An elephant calf was fell into a well in Kenya. You can see – and hear – her mother’s frustration. Had this happened out of eyeshot of this brave team of rescuers, it’s likely this little elephant would’ve perished. Fortunately, the team at Amboseli Trust for Elephants came to her rescue. Using a rope and a jeep, they managed to pull this elephant from where she was trapped. See her dram

An Owner Sets up a Camera To Find out Why His Horse Was Not Eating. Then they made an unexpected discovery.

This is a beautiful gesture where a horse feeds another horse. Enjoy This Video and make sure that pass this on for all animal lovers out there!