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Sometimes the weather’s bad enough outside that the last thing you want is to bring it into your lounge, but that hasn’t stopped the experimental arm of a German design company, Micasa Lab, from creating a weather-predicting lamp. Called Nebula 12 it gathers meterological data from the UK-based Met Office and recreates the forecast inRead More …

Felix Baumgartner and his Red Bull Stratos team were forced to abort mission Tuesday morning when gusty winds played havoc with the helium balloon as it was being filled on the tarmac. At 11:42 a.m. MDT, with Baumgartner in his pressurized space suit and inside the Red Bull Stratos capsule, mission control announced that hisRead More …

Wondering what’s causing all the extreme weather we’ve seen lately? The short answer, scientists say, is rotten luck and a warmer planet. It’s not easy to shatter a record that has lasted for more than 75 years. But that’s what happened last month, when a stubborn heat wave pushed July temperatures in the United StatesRead More …