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MOSCOW – The Russian government wants the sanctions against the European Union to extend until the end of 2018. That said the Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev Thursday, a day after the EU decided on economic sanctions against Moscow, a further six months to maintain. Russia, by its own measure since 2014 no products such…

Astronomers have discovered one of the most unusual at the moment exoplanets. It is a gas giant similar to our Jupiter, but located so close to its star that makes a complete revolution around it in just 1.5 days. As a result, the surface temperature of this planet is higher than most known stars. The…

Near the urban district of Liuzhou, the Chinese province of Guangxi has started building the first so-called “Forest city”. The construction of the new settlement is part of a project by the Chinese government to combat environmental pollution. The city itself and its infrastructure developed by the Italian design team of “Stefano Boeri Architetti”, already…

Jeanne Calment in 1995 Image: AP Humans don’t like dying, they don’t like the idea of dying, and most have made not dying an important part of their life. Lots of folks are interested in making us not die for longer, so it was a real bummer last year when a team of researchers said…

Photo: Getty You can finally add “swimming pools” to your running list of seemingly mundane-but-murderous-pastimes. At around 7pm EDT on Monday, local authorities in Tampa responded to an emergency call involving five sick children at a local pool. As reported by ABC News and others, a “cloud of chlorine gas” appeared in the Calypso Pool…

Image: Reddit.com/Crushader Samsung caught a whole mess of bad press last year after numerous reports of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploding. The company, however, apparently believes there’s still a rabid fanbase demanding a defused version of its mobile time bomb. So a refurbished version of the phone is going back on shelves next month—bearing…

Photo: Getty It’s hard to say how long The Metal has been around. This is because The Metal does not care for the laws of linear time. What we do know is that for thousands of years, humanity has both feared and revered The Metal, as evidenced once again by the recent discovery of an…

Photo: Getty The Trump administration has kept airlines and nations on edge as it weighed a decision to expand an in-flight ban on electronics larger than a smartphone. On Wednesday, the administration announced that it will not expand the ban, and it will lift be lifted in countries that were already affected. But the terms…

Just a lobster. Photo: Getty “They are dumb,” Christopher Stracuzza tells the New York Times. “They are like the dumbest people in the world.” They, in this case, are the TSA agents who manhandled his gigantic lobster and went viral with a photo on the agency’s Twitter account. Do Not Worry: Giant, Living Lobsters Are…

All images: Canon Canon is finally launching a new full frame camera. The $2000 Canon 6D Mark II is the first ever refresh to Canon’s cheapest full frame camera, the Canon 6D (now Canon 6D Mark I), and it might actually fix all the Mark I’s problems. The original 6D launched back in 2013, and,…