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At first glance, this alien body appears to be a Jabba the Hut-inspired vegetable that's slowly rotting away, and upon hearing the actual story, you'll know that it was "retrieved from a UFO crash site in 2009; it has an enormous head, bulbous eyes and one stick-like arm", according to Marta Yegorovnam. Click here for more pictures -- last two pictures show an entity spotted by two walkers close to Irkutsk, Siberia. Continue reading to see another alien body that was *supposedly* found in Russia.

The website reported that two men turned up at her home a few days ago and confiscated the corpse for investigative purposes, claiming to be from the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Starting today, "the Google tool on the Israel Museum website makes entire scrolls accessible and allows browsers to zoom into the text of the Great Isaiah Scroll as well as read its translation in English." More information. Video after the break. Click here to see more.

Scholars believe the 2,000-year-old scrolls were written by a Jewish sect from Qumran in the Judean Desert and were hidden in the caves around 70AD, when the Romans destroyed the temple in Jerusalem.

Rising up from the 9/11 Ground Zero World Trade Center site will be the world's greenest skyscraper complex. In addition to recycling rain water, these structures will feature sun-reactive dimming lights, hydrogen fuel cells for power generation, using the Hudson River to cool the WTC Transportation Hub, and building with 75 percent post-industrial recycled content. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading to watch the "Rebirth of Ground Zero".

Visitors to both the WTC buildings and the 9/11 Memorial will first pass through airport-style metal detectors and X-ray machines and have every bag, briefcase, and delivered parcel screened. Museum patrons won't even be allowed into the central plaza without passing security.

While some areas weren't hit as hard as expected, Hurricane Irene did cause plenty of damage in many parts of the country. These before and after pictures show its devastation. Click here to see them all. Continue reading to see where Spider-Man was during Hurricane Irene.

[via Gizmodo - Buzzfeed]

Who needs The Weather Channel, when you have a crazy guy in a Jeep streaming live video of Hurricane Irene? Let's just say that he's currently waiting for the top to blow off of this gas station. Continue reading for the feed.

As many living on the east coast of the United States already know, there was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that shook several areas today. On the bright side, "the Dow has recovered from its post-quake dip, and the New York Stock Exchanged never stopped trading." Videos after the break.

The USGS also says this is the biggest quake to roll out of Virginia since 1897. That's a long time ago! How would 19th century bloggers like me have found out about it in New York?

Designed by WXY Architecture, this DNA-inspired double helix bridge in China "features two individual and intertwining bridges that form a braided pattern; the undulating curves of the bridge are meant to represent the flow of the river." Continue reading for more pictures.

The helical bridge is held up by five multi-limbed supports, increasing the current spacing for watercraft and other recreational uses of the river.

Officials in China have shut down a clever iPad smuggling operation that made use of a pulley system to shoot units from a rural part of northern Hong Kong into Shenzhen. Simply put, "the cable was shot across the border using a crossbow and the Apple products were flying across at night, which store in black nylon bags." Video after the break.

They have finally been caught after a major customs surveillance operation. 6 smugglers were arrested in the operation, 50 iPad 2s and 50 iPhone 4s, which worth about three hundred thousand yuan (US$46,583) were seized.

Kingdom Tower, the soon-to-be world's tallest building by AS+GG, will stand 3280-feet above the Jeddah landscape in Saudi Arabia. Once completed, "there will be 59 elevators, 54 single-deck and five double-deck, along with 12 escalators; the elevators going up to the observatory deck will travel at 10 meters per second." Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for the news report + interview.

[via Gizmodo]

The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia will be the world's tallest building once completed, built at a cost of $1.2-billion. This tower "will include a Four Seasons hotel, apartments and condominiums, office space and the world's highest observatory." Continue reading for two more preview images.

This is the first image of what's going to become the tallest building in the world by the end of the decade: The 3,280-foot (one kilometer!) Kingdom Tower. It will dwarf the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa.