Two pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached themselves on Mahia beach in New Zealand and conservationists had trouble trying to get them back out to sea.
That is, until Moko the bottlenosed dolphin, who is well known locally for playing with swimmers in the bay, stepped in (swam in?):
Mr Smith said that just when his team […]

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AirshipOne is a futuristic airship designed by Gosha Galitsky, a passionate industrial design graduate. It is a solar powered cross between a semi-rigid airship and an airplane and can comfortably accommodate 25 passengers in its double-deck passenger compartment. The airship’s aluminum-grade skeleton is a semi-rigid structure and has carbon fiber paneling and high-strength fabric […]

I laughed out loud at this one. Two employees prank their extra large boss and catch it on video.

You know the feeling. Call it a senior moment, absent-mindedness or a sign of what a busy active brain you have. We’ve all asked ourselves that irritating question: “Where on earth did I leave my car keys?”
Now a team of Japanese scientists claim to have come up with the answer. And the secretive artificial […]

Nathan Yau of FlowingData created posted a graphic showing the 10 largest data breaches in the last 8 years. “Notice the higher frequency as we get closer to the present?” writes Nathan. Follow the link to see the whole thing.

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A few seconds after the train passes by. After it passes through, check out how quickly everyone sets up for business.
 

Children who gain weight rapidly after having adenotonsillectomy, or surgical removal of tonsils and adenoids to treat snoring, may see a relapse or their condition could even worsen.

A research team led by Mark Hoddle, a biological control specialist at UC Riverside, has nearly eradicated the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a major agricultural pest, from the island of Tahiti and several other French Polynesian islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

Dubai is located on the northern tip of the United Arab Emerites on the Persian Gulf. It has been ruled by the Al Maktoum Dynasty since 1833 and has existed in its modern state since 1971. the current ruler is Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, who is also the prime minister and vice president […]

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This movie shows the extreme nutational movements of morning glory vines. Climbing vines need to find a suitable support on which to grow.

 
Galaxy M104
The striking spiral galaxy M104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust. Seen in silhouette against a bright bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lanes lends a hat-like appearance to the galaxy in optical images suggesting the more popular moniker, The Sombrero […]

The Federal Reserve’s unusual decision to provide emergency assistance to Bear Stearns underscores a long-building concern that one failure could spread across the financial system.
Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns conduct business with many individuals, corporations, financial companies, pension funds and hedge funds. They also do billions of dollars of business with each other every […]

If you’re looking for cavity-free pearly whites, search anywhere but Lubbock, TX. A new study in next month’s Men’s Health magazine says this West Texas city has the worst teeth of the 100 large U.S. cities examined. ElPaso (No 95), San Antonio (89), and Dallas (87) weren’t far ahead. The magazine said the best teeth […]

 
Australian experts have created the world’s smallest diamond ring which is 300 nanometers in thickness, and five microns in diameter.
University of Melbourne scientists have revealed that they made the tiny ring by carving out a circular structure in an artificially made diamond.

Even though his friends often called him Dumbo,
young Sylvester never learned how to fly
Below are some of this week’s most unusual animal poses, mistakes, blunders, and so much more.
 

When Joseph Faber invented his “amazing talking machine” he had envisioned somehow connecting it to a telegraph to, converting the dots and dashes into a real human voice. It was a great idea, but only 150 year ahead of his time.
Innovators today look at Faber’s artificial tongue technology, where air from billows cross a passageway […]