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This article is about some 18year old girl who invented a battery that can charge a phone in twenty seconds. She won a huge award in a science competition. Pretty crazy

What possibly might be the result of aquarium dumping. A gigantic goldfish measuring in at 1.5ft and 4.2 pounds, has been found in a small corner of lake tahoe. The scientists had been trolling for any invasive species and came across the giant in their net. Later on they found a big group of the giant goldfish together.

This article is about flying robots that do absolutely amazing and mind boggling things. They do every thing from delivering food to filming for movies. They have even been taught to play the piano.

Awwww polar bears are so cute!! Said the CITES committee never. At a meeting to decide wether or not to grant more protection to the polar ears habitat, this committee decided they'd rather not save the bears...as one member put it, "politics has overcome science"

While the U.S. Navy was training dolphins to find mines underwater, one dolphin found a 130 year-old torpedo. It now sits in the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington.

Charles Cook, and Oklahoma resident saw that this tornado was starting to form. Unlike many other people that heat the word tornado and take off, Charles decided to stay and video tape it touching and moving on the ground with his phone.

Two sea turtles became stranded on Cape Cod during the cold spell and have lost circulation in their front flippers, their appetite, and their energy. Acupuncturist Claire Macmanus has been working on these turtles to restore what they have lost through acupuncture in their front flippers and neck so that they can be returned to the wild.

16 year old Michael Larsen found Viking-era coins with his metal detector in Denmark. Some of his friends called him "a bit nerdy". I think its pretty cool :)

A 200 pound female black bear climbed up a tree in Colorado Springs. Because the area was quite populated, animal control and the police wanted to get her down to relocate her. Their first attempt to sedate her with a dart was unseccussful and caused her to climb even higher. Although the second dart was right on mark. Almost five hours after she was found firefighters used a tall ladder truck to get her down off of the tree.

There is a big volcano under yellow stone state park that was bigger than scientists thought.

Scientists have been working on cracking the DNA code for a long time. Sixty years ago when they described the chemical code of life, who knew sixty years later they would find a new four-stranded type of DNA found in the double helix of DNA. This new discovery is called a G-quadruplex. This new discovery really shows us how amazing God is, and very creative.

At the Smithsonian's National Zoo, they are now using iPads to keep the orangutans occupied. A zookeeper states "... the iPad offers another way to engage their sight, touch, and hearing." These iPads were provided by Apps for Apes, who have apparently already provided these tablets for 12 other zoos.

A 4000 year old mummy is moved to the museum in VA. After this move, many scans and an unwrapping has provided scientists with much more information on how this ceremony was done.