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Chris Hadfield reveals new Canadian money while floating in space

David TrifunovApril 30, 2013 18:22

Canada remaking money in an attempt to stop counterfeiting, which reached a peak in 2004 of nearly 600,000 phony banknotes.

Russia charges NASA astronauts $8M more per seat on Soyuz spacecraft

Samantha StainburnApril 30, 2013 18:14

Seats will now cost $70.7 million apiece, or $8 million more than the previous going rate.

Did they really just spend money to do these studies?

Rian RossettiMay 2, 2013 11:27

Stress is bad for your health? Women find facial hair more attractive? Ah, science. Sometimes, research benefits science and mankind. Other times, they have us scratching our heads. It seems some members of Congress have similar sentiments.

First-ever web page reactivated on 20th anniversary of World Wide Web

Samantha StainburnApril 30, 2013 13:18

"I want my children to be able to understand the significance of this point in time,” Dan Noyes, the web manager for CERN's communication group, told BBC News.

Newborn baby found on beach in Hawaii

Allison JacksonApril 30, 2013 11:44

Authorities are now searching for the mother, who could be prosecuted for endangering the welfare of a child and abandonment.

South African Olympic medalist leaps over creek full of crocodiles

Faine GreenwoodApril 30, 2013 10:04

South African silver-medalist long jumper Khotso Mokoena fufilled a rather eccentric life dream on Tuesday: he successfully leapt over a creek seething with crocodiles.

NASA releases video of massive hurricane on Saturn (VIDEO)

Samantha StainburnApril 29, 2013 23:44

"We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth," Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said.

Japan: Nakizumo festival celebrates crying babies

Samantha StainburnApril 29, 2013 15:12

The sumo wrestlers shout “Naki! Naki! Naki!” (“Cry! Cry! Cry!”) or show the babies scary masks to get the tears flowing.

French billionaire returns disputed statues to China: a PR coup for the ages?

Benjamin CarlsonApril 29, 2013 12:00

HONG KONG — Sometimes returning stolen loot can be more profitable than keeping it: French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault announced Friday that he would donate to the Chinese government two $40 million bronze statues that were taken from Beijing's Summer Palace by Anglo-French troops during the Opium War of 1860.

Man stabs 4 during mass at a church in Albuquerque

Samantha StainburnApril 28, 2013 17:33

Police spokesman Robert Gibbs said a the man leapt over several pews at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church as the choir began to sing its closing hymn.