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A European eel (not the world's oldest, however).

Cool Finds

RIP, World’s Oldest Eel

The eel, 155, passed away in a Swedish well late last week

Joe McConaughy is trying to finish the Pacific Crest Trail faster than anyone ever has.

Cool Finds

Joe McConaughy Just Set a New Pacific Crest Trail Record

He finished all 2,660 miles, from Mexico and Canada, in 53 days, 6 hours and 37 minutes

U.S. Army combat medic Shawn Aiken lies down during his EKG appointment at the VA Medical Center in El Paso, Texas May 24, 2013. Aiken, who served 16 months in Iraq and 13 months in Afghanistan and has been active duty for nearly 10 years, has severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

New Research

Some Who Suffer from PTSD Never Get Better

As many as 11 percent of Vietnam veterans diagnosed with PTSD still suffer from the disorder

New evidence shows that Rock Doves (an ancestor to today's feral pigeons) were eaten by Neanderthals

New Research

Evidence Shows Neanderthals Ate Birds

Squab was apparently on the neanderthal menu for over 40,000 years in Gibraltar

Looking across old town towards The Citadel

Trending Today

Irbil, the Iraqi City the US Is Now Defending, Is One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Places in the World

Irbil, Iraq, has a long, long, long history

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It's a Wrap! The Forest Service Is Wrapping Historic Structures To Protect Them From Wildfires

Similar protective covering is used as emergency shelters by firefighters

New Research

Losing Weight Makes People Healthy—But Not Necessarily Happy

The relationship between losing weight and being happy is not at all straightforward

A herd of horses in Mongolia

Cool Finds

The World's Longest Horse Race Is Going on Right Now in Mongolia

With wild horses, broken bones and treacherous terrain, this isn't a steeplechase

Satellite view of Hurricanes Iselle (left) and Julio (right) approaching Hawaii. From NASA's Aqua satellite

Trending Today

Hawaii Braces for Two Hurricanes—Its First in 22 Years

Hawaii doesn't see direct hits from hurricanes very often

Grayson the fish teased viewers earlier this morning by nearly going down the stairs.

Trending Today

Who's Better at Pokémon, Anarchist Twitch Players or a Betta Fish?

Anarchy seems to be more effective than a fish, so far

The world's first climate refugees hail from Tuvalu, a Polynesian island nation.

Anthropocene

The World’s First Climate Change Refugees Were Granted Residency in New Zealand

A Tuvalese family said they can't go home because of climate change

A man looks at skulls and bones of more than 8,000 victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at Choeung Ek, a "Killing Fields" site located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh April 17, 2014.

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35 Years Later, Some Khmer Rouge Leaders Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity

The genocidal Khmer Rouge revolution took place from 1975 to 1979

Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring

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This Is Why the Park Service Banned Drones—One Just Crashed Into a Famous Hot Spring

This is why we can't have nice things

The contested self-portrait.

Trending Today

If a Monkey Takes a Photo, No One Owns Copyright

The contested photo likely belongs to neither monkey nor man, but to the public domain

Cool Finds

The Rise and Fall of PBR

How Pabst Blue Ribbon lost its cool

Cool Finds

Jump on Massive Trampolines in a Giant Cavern in Wales

This sounds like fun: jumping on trampolines 180 feet above the floor of a giant cavern

Barcelona's Olympic Stadium

Catalonia

Barcelona's Turning Its Old Olympic Stadium Into a Virtual Reality Themepark

At Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, you can race a virtual Olympian

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This Hacker Can Mimic a Car Key Fob

If you put a computer in it, hackers can get in

New Research

Humanity’s Legacy Might Be The Holes We Leave Behind

The last remnants of human civilizations might be the holes we carve into the earth

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Here's One Alternative to Having Your Password Stolen by Russian Hackers

Log in just by clicking your favorite spots on a map

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