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Since the dawn of mankind we’ve been coming up with new and creative ways to kill each other – you could argue that it’s what humans do best.

Just another elephant driver taking his elephant out for a swim -- at Radha Nagar Beach in Havelock, Andaman Islands.

A newly discovered species of titi monkey purrs like a cat and looks like a leprechaun.

Beautiful and colorful auroras triggered by huge coronal mass ejection, which brought the sky show farther south than normal.

By measuring the size of poop pellets from these diminutive mammals, scientists reconstruct rainfall levels from years past.

The Perseid meteor shower that will peak Thursday night and Friday morning is expected to be unusually bright and visible in the night sky this year because moonlight won’t be hampering the celestial show. The best time to watch will be from midnight to dawn, and the best place to watch will be any dark-sky spot you can find.

33,000 miles of pipeline. 50,000 wells. Thousands of abandoned rigs. And did we mention it's hurricane season?

Funeral directors in northern Belgium want the country to give the green light to resomation, a water and alkali-based process that turns bodies into a mix of liquid and minerals. Resomation uses less energy than  cremation and emits significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

While your computer is running idle, it could be finding new pulsars and black holes in deep space.

At the beginning of 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute has established famous Millenium Prize Problems. Those are problems which, by now, do not have confirmed solution. The Clay Mathematics Institute has established fund which guarantees a million dollar prize for the solution of each of those problems.

Teen girls know fashion photos are unrealistic, suggesting they don't lead to anorexia and starvation diets.

Research from Rice University's Department of Psychology finds that if you like what you're watching, you're less likely to notice the difference in video quality of the TV show, Internet video or mobile movie clip. The findings come from the recently released study "The Effect of Content Desirability on Subjective Video Quality Ratings"

The ongoing, deadly Russian wildfires and Pakistan floods may be connected by powerful atmospheric forces that are being boosted by global warming, scientists say.

This gallery is a sampling of some of the bizzaro space goods that have been auctioned at Swann Auction Galleries and Sotheby's.

An expedition to the Colombian Amazon has just revealed a new species of titi monkey that's the size of a house-cat and sports a bushy red beard.

Small-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals 800,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Very very powerful lasers—not like the Spyder III, but actual building-sized lasers used for science—might be reaching their physical ceiling for intensity. Going beyond a certain point means they can destroy themselves.

Christopher Nolan’s 'Inception' is a film about a time when we have the power to enter into each other’s dreams, and actively steer the dream’s course to implant an idea in the dreamer. The film raises the issue of how much we understand about the neuroscience of dreams.

A piece of pristine, hot rock from the earliest years of Earth's formation is found in northern Canada.

Those stupid terrorists got what they deserved