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August 22, 2016

Bill Nye: Why tech plays an important role in America's national parks future

As the National Park Service prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary this week, Centennial Ambassador Bill Nye says that technology can help inspire more and more people to visit the great outdoors.

August 18, 2016

Are tall people more conservative?

What can a tape measure tell you about how someone will vote? Perhaps everything, at least statistically.

August 16, 2016

Scientists may have found 'fifth force of nature'

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), believe they have identified a “fifth force of nature.”

August 14, 2016

Water changes from green back to blue at troubled Olympic pool

Goodbye green.

August 11, 2016

Almost all lice are now resistant to over-the-counter treatment

The vast majority of head lice in the United States are now resistant to most over-the-counter treatments, meaning that it's now especially difficult to vanquish the tiny blood-sucking parasites, a new study finds

August 10, 2016

Time to rethink how humans populated America, experts say

A new study challenges the theory that humans populated the Americas using a corridor between ice sheets more than 12,600 years ago.

August 10, 2016

Green Olympics: Algae turns Rio pool a strange color

A diving pool at the Rio Olympics turned green Tuesday when algae entered the water, stunning athletes and spectators.

August 10, 2016

Do the robot: 1,000-plus dancing droids break record

A troupe of more than 1,000 dancing robots showed off some Beyoncé-like moves at a recent festival in China, boogying and shaking its way to a new Guinness World Record

August 9, 2016

Nature documentaries may help ease aggression in prisons

A new small study suggests that showing nature documentaries to inmates may help to ease aggression in prisons.

August 4, 2016

Hungry beetles may end season for baseball's ash bats

Popular baseball bats may soon disappear from fields as ravenous Asian beetles rapidly consume the wood used to make them, according to reports.