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The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.
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It looks like you could jump right into street artist Julian Beever's pool. But beware: You'd be in for a hard landing. His work, just chalk on concrete, is a mastery of perspective.
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Videos captured the scene. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. The "Big Bay Boom" was all that, and more.
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Maybe you're planning your summer vacation and want something totally impractical to worry about (just to keep your mind off of real problems ... like…
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When Star Wars fans saw that the dwelling in the Tunisian desert was decaying, they jumped into hyperspace — OK, the Internet — to save it. A call on Facebook to help restore the sandy igloo first featured in Episode IV: A New Hope netted $11,000.
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It looks like the robot is playing fair, choosing it's hand signals we choose, but that's an illusion. It already knows.
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We took the question to the National Weather Service and got some interesting theories.
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Feel like taking it slow this morning? Just follow the lead of this alpha male chimpanzee from Senegal.
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If you need high-production science-y (i.e. nerdy) photographs for something, Dan Winters is your man.
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Scientists in India are studying spiders collected from a remote state that apparently swarmed and bit villagers, possibly leading to two deaths. The cause of the deaths isn't clear, but scientists are checking to see whether the spider is a new species.