Tiny "test-tube" kitty born in lab dish

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Wanna smell a stinky flower? A rare rain forest plant that's known as a "corpse flower" is almost ready to make its presence known at a greenhouse on the Ohio State University campus. The 5-foot tall plant that smells like rotting flesh is expected to bloom in the next few days. The bloom lasts only a couple of... - Posted on May 20, 2012
Solar-powered plane heads for the sun The Swiss team that built the world's most advanced solar-powered plane is planning to head to the Mediterranean next month. Adventurer Bertrand Piccard told The Associated Press on Friday that the 2,500-kilometer trip from Switzerland to Morocco will take two days and see stopovers in Mad... - Posted on April 29, 2012
Would you go around the world in this? A Slovenian pilot has completed a 62,000-mile (99,774-kilometer) journey around the globe in a fuel-saving ultralight plane. Matevz Lenarcic, a biologist and conservationist, started flying Jan. 8 from Slovenia. His route took him to Africa, then North and South America, onto Australia and... - Posted on April 19, 2012
Would you ride in a flying car? Flying cars aren't just science fiction anymore. A Massachusetts company has announced that its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year. The vehicle — dubbed the Transition — has two sea... - Posted on April 2, 2012
Cow has six legs, but walks on four A six-legged calf has defied the odds by thriving despite a vet's prediction at birth that it wouldn't survive. Seven-week-old Lilli is now a minor celebrity in her native Switzerland after local media were splashed with images of the calf frolicking across a sunny field. Farmer And... - Posted on March 30, 2012
What would you do with 5 used rocket engines? Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space. As a 5-year-old, Bezos, along with half a billion people around the world, watched in awe as American astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon in 1969. More than 40 years la... - Posted on March 29, 2012
Monster snake in a train station! A prehistoric monster snake is making a quick stopover in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. The full-scale replica of the Titanoboa ty-tan-uh-BOH'-ah) was unveiled Thursday as a promotion for an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.... - Posted on March 26, 2012
How does it feel to fall 13 miles at 364 MPH? Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump. Baumgartner lifted off for a test jump from Roswell, N.M., aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581 feet — 13.6 miles — and... - Posted on March 22, 2012
NASA plans pretend mission to Mars…wanna go? he International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day simulated trip to Mars in another few years. NASA said Tuesday that consideration is under way to use the space station as a dry run for a simulated trip to and from Mars. It would be patterned after Russia's mock ... - Posted on March 21, 2012
Tiny "test-tube" kitty born in lab dish Several endangered black-footed cats have been born recently in the U.S. and researchers say Crystal's birth is the rarest — the first ever born from an embryo fertilized in a lab dish, frozen, and later implanted in a housecat's womb. The black-footed cat is Africa's smallest wildcat an... - Posted on March 14, 2012