- - Political stalemate means the world’s largest historic contributor to the greenhouse gas problem faces international talks—again--without a plan.
United States - Greenhouse gas - Global warming - Environment - Climate change - - The space weather phenomenon swirls auroras and can spawn magnetic "twisters" that can knock out power lines, a new study says.
Earth - Atmosphere of Earth - Aurora - Solar System - Astronomy - - Mats of green algae have covered miles of coastline in China, creating foul odors and possibly choking life underneath the waves.
Algae - China - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Bacteria - - Built for the "presentation," in which prisoners' cuts filled cups with blood, an ancient chamber has emerged in Peru with burials intact.
Peru - South America - Human sacrifice - Blood - Recreation - -
- - Fire, crude, and an inky cleanup mark the great China oil spill of 2010—a drop in the barrel compared to the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico - Environment - Energy - Business - - 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
