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A chemist and a fashion designer have collaborated to create jeans that they say will remove harmful emissions from the air just by wearing them around. Tony Ryan, a chemist at Sheffield University in England and Professor Helen Storey of the London College of Fashion are the two behind the 'green' jeans and, according to the Daily Mail, here is how they work: "The jeans are coated with parti

In what's become a grim and somber ritual for Americans, citizens will gather Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, in which Islamic extremists killed nearly 3,000 people. Thousands are expected to come together in New York City, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania to pay their respects.

The 2012 London Olympics are well underway now and it’s about that time when everyone begins to wonder to themselves, “why isn’t that me competing at Olympics?” Well unless you have been training since you where a new born your chance of making that team now are slim to none. But that doesn’t mean ...

The 2012 solar eclipse is an annual event where the moon crosses over the sun creating what many (or at least the internet) are calling a “ring of fire.” Click through to see some amazing photos of the event.

It seems al Qaeda, the group responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fancies itself a graphics design powerhouse as well. The creepy image above, which depicts the New York City skyline with the caption “Al Qaeda Coming Soon Again in New York,” was posted on a radical overseas website, and police and the FBI are investigating.

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of being the lone shooter in the mass murder of Afghan villagers on March 11, will be officially charged today with 17 counts of murder.

An already tense situation may have just gotten worse, with US officials removing the US Soldier accused of the Afghan civilian shootings from the country. According to reports, the soldier in question was seen on a surveillance video approaching the Belandai special forces base with his weapon covered in a cloth...

UPDATE:  According to MSNBC, though no protests or demonstrations were seen Monday morning, the Afghan Taliban has pledged to take revenge against the “sick-minded American Savages”, “The American ‘terrorists’ want to come up with an excuse for the perpetrator of this inhumane crime by claiming that this immoral culprit was mentally ill.  If the perpetrators of thi... Read More ...

There’s a lot of talk right now about the Web blackout for PIPA and SOPA. And, of course, some folks are mighty confused. That’s where we come in.

On Tuesday, we told you about some of the sites — Wikipedia, Reddit and the Cheezburger network among them — that planned to go dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy legislation under consideration by the US Congress. They weren’t the only stops on the internet to take a stand — here’s a roundup of some of the most prominent peaceful prot

Who would’ve thought that a simple Congressional bill aimed at ending online piracy with the same potential to censor the entire internet community would cause such a mass panic? But that’s exactly what’s going on, especially with Twitter users.

Do you use the internet? Do you think the government, any government, should have the power to decide what sites you have access to? There are two a new pieces of legislation in the works called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) and some say thew will do anything but protect the internet...