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Photos: Inside Qatar
Get a glimpse into the conservative Islamic country that will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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Peak to Steal Biggest Volcano Title?
If a new theory holds true, Tharsis Rise on Mars is about to cast down Olympus Mons as the largest known volcano in the solar system.
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Gulf Cleanup Learns From Exxon
Sand oiled by the Gulf of Mexico spill is cleaned and returned to beaches, a technique used to avoid repeating mistakes made after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. Video.
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Amazon's Carbon Opportunity?
Climate negotiators in Cancun aim to build a framework for curbing deforestation’s global warming impact, but forest-rich Brazil doesn’t want to be the world’s carbon sink.
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Mercury Makes Birds Homosexual?
Male birds that eat mercury-contaminated food show "surprising" homosexual behavior, scientists have found.
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Space Pictures This Week
A thundercloud aims high, stars are born near a galactic void, a Saturn moon spews ice, and more in the week's best space pictures.
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Early Universe Was Liquid?
Just after the big bang, the universe was made of a quark-gluon plasma that behaved like a dense, superhot liquid, new data suggest.
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Species Uses Arsenic in DNA—A First
No, NASA didn't find life on another world. But scientists did discover a bacteria species that's perhaps the most "alien" yet seen.
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New Drilling Disclosure Rules?
The Obama administration wants companies to reveal chemicals used in natural gas drilling on public lands.
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Species Uses Arsenic in DNA—A First
No, NASA didn't find life on another world. But scientists did discover a bacteria species that's perhaps the most "alien" yet seen.
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Special Report: Shale Gas Rush
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A Dream Dashed by the Rush on Gas
The shale gas industry maintains that it protects drinking water and land. But mistrust has been sown in rural communities.
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New Jobs Through Energy
The industry promises jobs to a state badly in need of an economic boost, but the work so far isn't where you might expect it to be.
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Mapping a Gas Boom
Track the growing mark that energy companies have etched on Pennsylvania since first producing natural gas from shale.
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