Boston Marathon Bombing – the Boston Marathon bombing (2013) – a pictorial timeline of the domestic terrorist attack and capture of brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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At the 2013 Boston Marathon, two explosions happened at about 2:50 p.m., more than two hours after the first of the race’s nearly 27,000 runners had crossed the finish line. Two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, as runners…

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Giant African Land Snails, as big as your foot, invade southern Florida.

Giant African Snail in Florida

The Giant African land snail grows as large as a rat and can eat through the walls of a home – and they’re invading southern Florida. Hundreds of thousands of the snails are emerging from hibernation and eating through everything in their path. Destruction by digestion aside, their shells are so hard, they can blow…

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Scientists discover evidence of mind-bending “dark lightning” – invisible sprays of X-rays and intense bursts of gamma rays

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Scientists have discovered something mind-bending about lightning – sometimes its flashes are invisible, just sudden pulses of unexpectedly powerful radiation. Termed “dark lightning”, it is now clear to a growing number of lightning researchers and astronomers that along with bright, visible thunderbolts, thunderstorms sometimes unleash sprays of X-rays and intense bursts of gamma rays (called…

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More skull-shaped objects on Mars.

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A while back, when NASA video revealed an odd, skull-shaped object (complete with eye and nose holes) on the surface of Mars we figured it was just an unusually-shaped rock. Today a second “skull” (see photo above) has been spotted in Curiosity Rover video in a location known as Sol 482 and this one is…

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