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Yosemite National Park Bans Drones

The Park says that the use of drones can disturb other visitors and wildlife

Adam West as Batman, c. 1966

It's the 75th Anniversary of Batman's Creation

What's the source of Batman's lasting appeal?

Watch This Bear Cub Rock Climb!

You have time for one too-adorable-for-words video

A Syrian rebel fighter wears a gas mask in 2013.

Syria Won’t Give Up the Last of Its Chemical Weapons

U.S. officials say the Syrian government is holding on to some of its chemical weapons to use as leverage

50 Years Ago Today, the First BASIC Program Ran in a Dartmouth Basement

The computer language that led the hobbyist computer boom turns 50 today

Trout River, Newfoundland, Canada

This Dead Whale Could Explode at Any Minute

The 81-foot whale hasn't exploded...yet

Parents of some of the kidnapped girls react during a meeting last Friday.

Reports from Nigeria Say Abducted Girls Are Being Married to Their Captors, Moved Abroad

Reports from local residents say they saw mass marriages, kidnapped girls being moved out of the country

Oklahoma's Botched Execution Revealed the Flaws in States' Reliance on Lethal Injection

Lethal injection has a surprisingly high failure rate

Students at school in Lagos, Nigeria circa 2003 (not the school from which the 234 girls were kidnapped)

After Two Weeks, 234 Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls Are Still Missing

A terrorist group opposed to western education is thought to be behind the kidnappings

Tourists crowd the Sistine Chapel

It Takes A Lot of Planning for a City to Canonize Two Popes At Once

At least 1.3 million people gathered for the canonization of two popes in Rome this weekend

View of ancient buildings in a sandstorm in Lanzhou city, northwest Chinas Gansu province, 24 April 2014

Photos: A Massive Sandstorm Swept Across Northern China

The event is one of the largest to hit China in years

Pavement Cracks And Chain-Link Fences Are the New Ecosystems of the Anthropocene

The "natural" world is gone, and it's not coming back

Elevator shaft

China's About to Have the World's Fastest Elevator

The elevator will ascend 95 floors in 43 seconds

Sound Experts Want to Record One Full Day of Human Noise From All Over the Earth

The project could help scientists better understand the human soundscape and quantify how it changes over time

National Park of American Samoa

This Week Is National Park Week

It's spring, and the National Park Service wants you to visit

A Lyrid meteor as seen from Oregon in 2012

Look Up Tonight As the Lyrid Meteor Shower Hits Its Peak

Look to the northeast tonight to catch the peak of the annual meteor shower

Supporters gather at the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday to commemorate the victims of last year's bombings.

For the First Time in Nearly 30 Years an American Won the Boston Marathon

Meb Keflezighi's win at the Boston Marathon is first American victory since Lisa Widenbach's in 1985

An Avalanche on Mount Everest Made This the Deadliest Day in the Mountain’s History

With at least 12 dead, today is worse than the day in 1996 when eight people were killed in a storm

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

How Gabriel Garcia Marquez Became a Writer

Marquez attributed his writing to drawing as a child…and Franz Kafka

Construction

Missouri Wants to Use Military-Grade Sound Cannons to Slow Drivers Down

The LRAD sound cannon has been used to subdue protests, deter pirates and, now, slow down speeding drivers.

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