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  • Oil rig explosion picture: Boats spray water on an oil and gas rig off the coast of Louisiana.

    Photos: Another Gulf Oil Rig Burns

    Just months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday.

  • Then-and-now Hurricane Katrina fifth-anniversary pictures of New Orleans' Superdome.

    Photos: Katrina, Five Years Later

    Houses wiped off the map, submerged islands, and flooded cemeteries—see how sites hit by Hurricane Katrina five years ago are faring in 2010.

  • A picture of a sunspot captured by the New Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear Solar Observatory.

    Pictures: New Sunspot Shots

    A new telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a sunspot in visible light, astronomers say.

  • Picture of a young Microhyla nepenthicola -- a new species of pea-size frog -- resting on a penny.

    World's Tiniest Frog?

    Species Was Mistaken for Juveniles for 100 Years

  • A picture of Mohammed Nawaz, a Pakistani flood victim

    Pakistan Flood Photos

    Government Advises Another Half Million to Evacuate

  • Picture of honeycomb clouds over waters off Peru.

    Photos: Honeycomb Clouds Decoded

    Some marine clouds "communicate" with each other, forming, raining, and re-forming in unison, a new study says.

  • Satellite picture of a plankton bloom swirling off Ireland's coast.

    Space Photos This Week

    Plankton swirl, stars cluster, a meteor streaks, and Earth shines in our selection of the week's best space pictures.

  • A picture of a bearded new species of titi monkey discovered in the Colombian Amazon rain forest

    New "Bearded" Titi Monkey Found

    The "fascinating" new species of monkey mates for life—and may be critically endangered by habitat loss in the Amazon rain forest.

  • Picture of the Telenoid robot teaching a young girl.

    Photos: "Ghostly" Robot Debuts

    Part phone, part ventriloquist's dummy, the Telenoid R1 robot can stand in for distant relatives, friends, or teachers, its creators say.

  • Photo: The Plastiki under sail in calm waters

    Photos: Plastic-Bottle Catamaran Crosses Pacific

    David de Rothschild's 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific in a plastic-bottle boat spotlighted serious ocean pollution problems, but also presented promising solutions for plastic recycling and re-use.

  • A picture of a six-gill shark attacking bait off Australia's Coral Sea, part of a series of new deep-sea species pictures captured by deep video cameras

    Photos: Strange Deep-Sea Beasts

    See a "prehistoric" shark, a hairy anglerfish, jellyfish glowing like Avatar extras, and more oddities of the Deep Australia Project.

  • Picture of vessels above the BP Deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil spill site, where a new cap has been fitted to the leaking wellhead

    Photos: New BP Cap Stops Oil Leak?

    See the saga of the containment caps, from the removal of the old "top hat" to the installation of the new one, which BP said Thursday has finally stopped the Gulf oil spill.

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  • Photo: Microscopic crustacean found in some drinking water

    Blog: Tiny Shrimp in Drinking Water

    Rumors abound about tiny crustaceans living in NY drinking water, and at their base, they're actually true.

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    BPA, Testosterone Linked

    BPA is in CDs, water bottles, even eyeglasses and now it's in your urine, too. And it may be messing with your hormones, according to new research.

  • Photo: Illustration of a black hole

    LHC Black Hole Suit Dropped

    Court decision states "the alleged injury, destruction of the earth, is in no way attributable to the U.S. government's failure to draft an environmental impact statement."

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  • Lightning and fire accompany Hurricane Andrew in Homestead, Florida.

    "Firecane" Myth Busted

    Flaming, oily hurricanes and "black rain" are no danger to Gulf residents on Katrina's fifth anniversary—or to anyone, anywhere, experts say.

  • Photo: ship hydrocarbon plume gulf

    22-Mile Oil Plume Found

    A giant plume from the Gulf spill has been confirmed deep in the ocean—and it may stick around, a new study says.

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