A team of scientists from Case Western University working for DARPA—the Pentagon's advance research program—have created a real world artificial hand like the one doctors put on Luke Skywalker in the movie Star Wars. It's not as flexible yet, but amputees can actually feel things.

The Popocatépetl—Smoking Mountain in Nahuatl—a massive stratovolcano 43 miles (70 kilometers) from Mexico City erupted yesterday causing the sudden explosion of ash you can see in the image. It's now on "alert level Yellow, Phase 2, which restricts access to within 12 km of the crater."

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Japanese and Chineses physicists have found something never imagined before: a new kind of particle—called Z(3900)—that is completely different from the other particles that form the atoms that make the world around you. If confirmed, it could "rewrite the rules of matter." It's a magical world, people.

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And you don't want to make the Woz cry. Go fund this tripod so we all can enjoy it.

British comedian Russell Brand—who is generally quite obnoxious and rude himself—got rudely mistreated by the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday during an interview about his new American comedy tour. By the middle of it he had enough of their unpleasant manners and turned the tables. Worth watching.

Singer and actress Rihanna is leaving her world tour to check into a sex and love addiction program at the Center for Relationships and Sexual Recovery at the Ranch, Tennessee. According to a source, she's still obsessively in love with Chris Brown," the ex who mistreated her.

The FBI is now digging in a field in Detroit in an attempt to unearth Jimmy Hoffa's body after four decades of his mysterious disappearance. According to old mobster Tony Zerilli, a Mafia soldier "picked up a shovel and cracked Hoffa over the head with it" then "they threw him into the hole, and buried him alive"here.

Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar drank water from the oldest undisturbed water cache ever—1.5 billion years old. She said to the LA Times that 'it tastes terrible [...] You would definitely not want to drink this stuff.' It's not surprising, knowing it's 'viscous and turns kind of orangey' when exposed to air.

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Did you know that there never was a balloon in Around the World in 80 Days? And that the Nautilus wasn't powered by atomic energy? You can blame Disney for establishing those lies as "fact"—but not for the other four big misconceptions about Jules Verne, one of the best writers of the 19th century.

12-year-old Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins and Alec Atkins are Unlocking the Truth, the Brooklyn-based metal band that's taking over New York and everyone on the internet except the dumb kids who taunt them at school because they don't like hip hop like the rest of the hive. I don't like metal, but they rock.

Point being: it doesn't make sense.