Fog Catchers Bring Water to Parched Villages

A rain-starved community in Peru collects hundreds of gallons of water a day using special fog-catching nets.

WEEK IN PHOTOS: Bull Run, China Riots, Beet Cake, More

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A bull gets chased into the sea in Spain, India's homosexuals celebrate, and a Washington, D.C., panda gets a "veggie-sicle" birthday cake in this week's best news photos.

Turtles Have Shells Due to Embryo "Origami"

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Although they start out looking like chickens and mice, baby turtles go through a unique folding process inside their eggs that forms their upper shells, a new study shows.

"Space Internet" to Link Worlds by 2011?

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Tweets from the moon are only the beginning: Scientists have created a revolutionary communications program that will reach the edges of outer space.

Toxic Substance Allows Birds to "See" Magnetic Field

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Damaging superoxides are the key ingredient that gives migrating birds magnetic vision, a new study says.

MOON PHOTOS: Lunar Orbiter's First Pictures Released

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Craters lie deep in shadow as seen in the first pictures from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will spend about a year scouting out the moon to aid future missions.

Armadillo-like Crocodile Fossil Found in Brazil

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In addition to body armor never before found on a crocodile species, the ancient reptile had jaws that allowed it to chew like a mammal, paleontologists say.

Monkeys Recognize Poor Grammar

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Cotton-top tamarins can understand if a word is missing a prefix or suffix, according to a new study that suggests our distant cousins have the mental machinery to identify at least one complex language rule.

New Geyser Erupts

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Two years after most of Russia's geysers were lost in a landslide, a peculiar geyser has emerged on the Kamchatka Peninsula that spouts water every 6 to 20 minutes.Video.

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