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After focusing for decades on cutting costs, the solar industry is shifting attention to making new advances in technology.

The spooky-looking amphibian is less scary than it appears to be. But it might already be endangered, as deforestation rates continue to go up.

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WOW! Viewer video show boulders in the road on US-395 near Coleville following a swarm of earthquakes — Aftershocks are still being felt.

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A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Farmington on Thursday afternoon.

Bird handlers were devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.

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They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air.

Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.

“We’ve seen one of the very worst ever racing days in our history,” pigeon hobbyist Richard Sayers wrote in a Facebook post chronicling the feathery fiasco, which occurred Saturday after 9000 racing birds took off from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on a journey to the northeast. And while the 170-mile round-trip flight should’ve only taken three hours, over half the avian competitors were still unaccounted for as of last night.

A rocket ship-like design separates BMW’s CE 04 from the rest of the electric scooter pack.

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Is beetlejuice stronger than teflon?

A protein-based lubricating substance is discovered in the femoro-tibial joint of the darkling beetle Zophobas morio (Insecta). The substance extrudes to the contacting areas within the joint and appears in a form of filiform flows and short cylindrical fragments. The extruded lubricating substance effectively reduces the coefficient of sliding friction to the value of 0.13 in the tribosystem glass/lubricant/glass. This value is significa… See More.

The evolutionary history of humans has just become more complicated, thanks to a new analysis in China and an excavation in Israel. Either we have just discovered new species of our ancestors or we have unearthed fossils of a known species of which we have had little physical evidence so far.

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Chinese researchers will have much to contribute as palaeoanthropologists study the ‘Dragon Man’, who may have predated Neanderthals.

How’s your return to work after Independence Day weekend going?