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Critters' Pee Changes Climate Record?
The crystallized urine of the rodent-like rock hyrax is filling in gaps in our understanding of climate change, experts say.
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Photos: Return to the Crystal Caves
Returning to Mexico's otherworldly Cave of Crystals, explorers have uncovered a new cavern, microscopic life-forms, and more.
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Return to Giant Crystal Cave
It looks like Superman's fortress and is nearly as hard to get into, but that hasn't kept explorers from uncovering new secrets in and around Mexico's deep, deadly Cave of Crystals.
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2010 Ig Nobels Awarded
Profanity against pain and whale-snot-collecting helicopters are just a few of the unusual scientific achievements honored as Ig Nobels on Thursday.
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BO Attracting Predators to Birds
New Zealand birds' ripe body odor is giving the animals away to predators—and deodorant might actually help save species, experts say.
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"Sea Snot" Explosion in the Gulf?
A "blizzard" of sticky life-forms caused by the BP spill may have crippled the base of the Gulf of Mexico food chain, according to early results suggest.
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Flooding Farms for the Birds
In response to the BP oil spill, U.S. farmers are flooding fields to create untainted wetland stopovers for migrating birds. Video.
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Giant Vacuum to Help Bugs in Oiled Marshes?
Using huge hoses, researchers are vacuuming up marsh bugs to determine the effects of the Gulf oil spill on insects and other arthropods. Video.
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Astronauts' Fingernails Falling Off
After working in space gloves, some astronauts' hands suffer, even to the point of losing nails, a new study says.
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Fire Tornado Filmed in Hawaii
While battling a blaze on the slopes of Mauna Kea in August, a Hawaii firefighter captured rare footage of a fire tornado, or fire whirl. Video.
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Hunchback Dinosaur Found: Carnivorous "Camel"
The otherwise fearsome new one-ton predator sported an odd hunchback and scrawny feather precursors, puzzling scientists.
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Photos: Death Valley's Roving Rocks
What causes stones to sail in the hottest place in North America? New evidence suggests the mysterious rocks "float" on winter ice.
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Pictures: Crab Swarm Mystery Solved
A surge in hormones allows millions of migrating Christmas Island crabs to make their annual trek to the ocean, a new study says.
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Pictures: Fire Tornadoes Explained
Recent "firenadoes" in Brazil and Hawaii aren't rare, just rarely reported, an expert says: Large versions occur once a year in the U.S.
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Tarzan Chameleon Found
The discovery on Madagascar of the new species—given away by its flat snout—is a "Tarzan yell for conservation," a new study says.
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Moon Water Linked to Silver?
The moon's south pole hosts unexpected amounts of silver and mercury, which may help reveal the origins of lunar water.
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Ocean Photo Contest Winners Named
Netted turtles and a finned whale shark feature among the winning frames in a 2010 marine-conservation photo contest.
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Photos: 12 Vanishing Landmarks
A Maya complex, a Haitian palace, and a Swahili town are among the ancient sites being ruined by neglect, a new report says.
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U.S. Tiger Time Bomb
Weak regulations for some 5,000 captive tigers could help fuel the black market, warns the WWF.
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BioBlitz Receives Award
U.S. Department of the Interior prize is for excellence in achievement of natural resource conservation goals and working with others.
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Genetically Modified Proteins Escape Into Streams
Study finds traces in rivers near corn fields in Indiana.
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Gulf Oil Spill News and Pictures
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Did Gulf Spill Boost "Dead Zone"?
Did the BP oil spill sap oxygen from the Gulf of Mexico? Scientists are weighing new findings against years of "dead zone" data.
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Gulf Manta Rays Affected by Oil Spill?
The little-studied Gulf of Mexico's manta rays could be their own species—and victims of the oil spill, scientists say.
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