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China's massive Three Gorges Dam is being pushed to its limits by heavy monsoon rains that have sent water gushing through spill gates.



Three Gorges Dam - Flood - Dam - Water - China

Filmed away from humans for the first time, jumbo squid light up during an expedition that also found them to have superstrong bites.



Squid - Proxying and Filtering - Cooking - Home - Fish and Seafood

Radar of a rocky desert, a Martian bull's eye, and "cool" mirrors feature among the week's best space pictures.



Mars - Space - Technology - Solar System - Astronomy

In a new viral video a fisher boats through hundreds of hyped-up alligators. Despite their snapping, the gators show true teamwork, experts say.



Alligator - Business - Fish - Arts - Stephen C. Foster State Park

The Obama administration’s first lease sale in the 87-year-old petroleum reserve on the North Slope leaves sanctuary for caribou and geese.



Petroleum - Business - Energy - Oil and Gas - Alaska North Slope

The past decade was the hottest on record, a government report says—part of an "unmistakable upward trend."



Global warming - Climate change - Environment - Federal government of the United States - Opposing Views

A new sniff-driven controller is helping paralyzed people get moving again—and allowed a "locked in" patient to write letters, a new study says.



Weizmann Institute of Science - Disability - Soft palate - Business - Products and Services

The first flying car with a shot at making it to market got a new look Monday, as seen in pictures of the craft as a car, a plane—and something in-between.



Flying car - Recreation - Autos - Terrafugia - Enthusiasts

Sailing a plastic bottle ship across the Pacific spotlighted the serious problem of plastic trash at sea—and showed that solutions are possible by simply thinking smarter.



Pacific Ocean - Plastic - Plastiki - David Mayer de Rothschild - Recycling

Recent finds may help reveal who wrote the seminal scrolls. For starters, they may hail from the purported home of the Ark of the Covenant.



Dead Sea - Ark of the Covenant - Dead Sea scrolls - Middle East - Israel

The Plastiki—David de Rothschild’s recycled-bottle sailboat—safely reached Sydney harbor this week, marking the end of a unique 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean.



Pacific Ocean - Plastiki - David Mayer de Rothschild - Australia - Recycling

As lava from the Kilauea volcano crept closer to his Hawaiian home, resident Gary Sleik felt three years of anxiety go up in smoke.



Volcano - Hawaii - Kīlauea - Lava - Kilauea

New pictures reveal a potentially new—and arguably adorable—purple octopus and other rare species found this month off Canada's east coast.



Species - Canada - Fish - Biology - Flora and Fauna

After a sweltering spring, 2010 "will almost certainly" be one of the warmest years recorded since 1880, a new report says.



Business - Technology - Temperature - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Climate change

As global warming withers Mexican crops, immigration to the U.S. might increase, according to a new study.



Global warming - United States - Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views

The hairy-nosed otter—long thought locally extinct—and a stink badger are among rare mammals "caught" by camera traps in a Borneo forest.



Borneo - Hairy-nosed Otter - Malaysia - Sabah - Mammal

See the ghostly images that revealed Stonehenge's sister site, how the new henge may have looked, the gear that got the job done, and more.



Stonehenge - Archaeology - England - Social Sciences - Megaliths

A stone's throw from Stonehenge, archaeologists have found a sister circle—hinting that such temples were once plentiful at the site.



Stonehenge - Archaeology - England - University of Birmingham - megalith

A see-through crustacean and a weird water bug are among the hundreds of species discovered so far during a survey of Korean biodiversity.



Biodiversity - Species - Environment - Crustacean - Biology