Space station will mark 20 years of people living in orbit

The International Space Station marks a big milestone Monday. That's the 20th anniversary of the first crew's arrival, and there has been a steady stream of people living there ever since.

Spooky 'Halloween' sun seen in NASA image

A remarkable solar image from NASA shows a spooky sun that scientists compared to a "giant floating space pumpkin."

Crews vacuum ‘murder hornets’ out of Washington nest

Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

First Asian giant hornet nest found in Washington

The Washington State Department of Agriculture has found the first Asian giant hornet nest in the United States. 

Chicago's Girls 4 Science dives into National Chemistry Week
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Jackie and Logan Lomax talk about what Girls 4 Science is doing to get young girls engaged and active in the fields of STEM.

‘Mummified’ Twinkie debunks myth that cake treats last forever

A man in Philadelphia found an 8-year-old box of Twinkies in his basement and found that Twinkies don't last as long as the myth says.

12-year-old boy finds 69 million-year-old dinosaur fossil during hike with his dad

Twelve-year-old Nathan wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up, and he's already made what experts are calling a "significant" dinosaur discovery.

Tennessee fisherman catches bass holding snake in its mouth

Proving once again that the sea is filled with unspeakable horrors, a fisherman in Tennessee reeled in a bass with a snake in its mouth.

Man illegally dumps bags of eels into pond in New York City, saying 'I just want to save lives'

People have been dumping weird animals in New York forever. Voracious snake-head fish. Wall lizards. In the 1800s, someone released 60 birds from Europe in New York and now millions of their descendents live across the United States.

Asian Carp Challenge aims to reintroduce pesky fish to the diets of Chicagoans
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Josina Morita, commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, talks about the need to reduce the population of invasive Asian Carp in Chicago's water ways.