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  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.

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  Pictures: New Sunspot Shots

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

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  World's Tiniest Frog?

  Species Was Mistaken for Juveniles for 100 Years

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  Pakistan Flood Photos

  Government Advises Another Half Million to Evacuate

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  Photos: Honeycomb Clouds Decoded

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

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  Space Photos This Week

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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  Photos: Giant Sea Volcano Revealed

  More than 11,500 feet tall, the newly explored peak off Indonesia is home to odd creatures, spewing vents, and a potentially new squid.

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