A 10-pound hairball was removed from an 18 year old girl's stomach. She was complaining of stomach pains and vomiting, and also lost 40 pounds in 5 months. Turns out she ate her hair and caused a giant hair ball to form in her stomach. After getting
For those of you who have facebook, you may have noticed lately all the ladies posting "I like it _______" in their status. If you haven't heard, it's part of this years' campaign for brest cancer awareness. The women of facebook are posting where th
An 8-year-old boy, who was with his family at a Long Island restaurant, was stabbed 5 times. The stabbing was random, and was done by a 23-year-old male. The man came up behind the boy, put his hand on the boy's shoulder, and stabbed him with a three
According to a new study, the more sleep you get the more weight you lose. It tested people who slept 8.5 hours and 5.5 hours, all on the same died schedual. Turns out the ones who slept more lost the most weight. I don't know about you, but I always
People create smart robots, which turn against us and take over the world. Yawn. We've seen this in movies, TV, and comic books for decades. After all these years, look around and still—no smart robots.
Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide. How full? Tough question. After all, they're called black holes for a reason. You can't see them until they're swallowing up the stars around them
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There have been several bodies found near the standing stones we know as Stonehenge. The most recently found, the body of a teen age boy, was found wearing a necklace of amber beads, an uncommon find among bodies this age. Tests on his teeth show t
Sarah Palin was thought to be booed at when she was in the crowd watching her daughter Bristol on Dancing With The Stars. But, as it turned out, she wasn't being booed at. The crowd was actually booing at a scoring choice by the judges, and Palin jus
In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted, spitting out three cubic miles of lava. Floods, ash, and fumes wiped out 9,000 people and 80 percent of the livestock. The ensuing starvation killed a quarter of Iceland's population. At
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Whoo-hoo! If the world and bacteria can't kill us, lets just do it ourselves!
Together, the United States and Russia still have almost 19,000 active nuclear warheads. Nuclear war seems unlikely today, but a dozen years ago the demise of
Okay, so this place called Lincolnshire has a big problem of criminals stealing tractors and other farm equipment. So to combat this, they got a john deere 6630 tractor and decked it out with police lights. Their goal is to show the farmers that they
Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, raved that a particle accelerator experiment could set off a chain reaction that would destroy the world.
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Surprisingly, many sober-minded physicists have had the same
Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped. The last such reversal was 780,000 years ago, so we may
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Images of slaughtered elephants and burning rain forests capture people's attention, but the big problem—the overall loss of biodiversity—is not as obvious but highly dangerous.
Billions of years of evolution have produced a world i