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At first glance, a landfill is unsuitable for wildlife habitat. The Audubon Society doesn’t agree. In fact they recently announced a partnership with Waste Management to restore wildlife habitat at Two Pine Landfill in North Little Rock, AR.

Funny photos about horse curiousity. I really hope the horse was alright at the end...

The Ultimate 1950s Space Technology, which almost made it to Saturn which apparently NASA still has "small secret contingency plan division" which is dedicated to preserving "Orion" nuclear propulsion technology - and possible reviving it.

Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars.

The SkyTrough, cuts the cost of its parabolic trough concentrator by 35 % compared to other commercially available systems, largely because of a breakthrough mirrored polymer which replaces heavy glass used in all other solar parabolic trough collectors.

Scientists from the Universities of Bath and Exeter have developed a rapid new way of checking for toxic genes in disease-causing bacteria which infect insects and humans. Their findings could in the future lead to new vaccines

Even the most environmentally-conscious among us use batteries containing toxic heavy metals on a daily basis

The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b, has approximately the same size as Jupiter, but more than 20 times the mass, it is therefore twice as dense as lead. Its mass is bigger than a planet, but smaller than a star.

The Russian space program has found ways to make space pay and has shown that it is leading the way toward the commercialization of space travel.

If you've ridden in Bill Penney Toyota's courtesy van lately, you probably remember driver Douglas Prasher as a nice guy who likes to chat. But Prasher, 57, has a fascinating past that might have earned him this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry ...