Pet euthanasia rates are at a 3-year high, but experts say there are ways to help besides adoption

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A volunteer petting a dog at an animal shelter.
Volunteering is one way you can help pets in animal shelters without having to adopt.

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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs

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White mushroom cloud of the first hydrogen bomb test over the Marshall Islands.
The first hydrogen bomb test, as part of Operation Ivy, detonated over the Marshall Islands in 1952.

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Japan released treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Experts say it's safe, but one would avoid the fish.

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A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee wearing a protective suit and mask near storage water tanks.

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Humans have pumped so much groundwater from the Earth that it's actually caused the planet's axis to shift, a new study found

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Earth from space.
We're moving so much water from under the continents to the oceans that it's affecting our axial tilt, a new study found.

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How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII

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Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."

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Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. Scientists warn climate change could make more mountains crumble.

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A view of the partially collapsed Fluchthorn mountain.
The grey middle peak shown here of Mt. Fluchthorn partially collapsed earlier this year.

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Jaden Smith says he took magic mushrooms as a young adult. Brain experts who study psychedelics warn that wasn't a good idea.

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Jaden Smith said his mother introduced him to magic mushrooms.

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I quit my real estate job in Indiana and moved to Florida to hunt pythons. Here's what my typical day looks like now.

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Amy Siewe holding a python.
Amy Siewe hunts invasive Burmese pythons in Florida.

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The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm

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Physicist Avi Loeb, right, on stage with physicist Stephen Hawking and others in New York in 2016.

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A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and filmed it under a microscope, revealing dozens of crawling face mites

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Illustration of a face mite.
Scientists still aren't sure why humans play host to these tiny creatures.

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