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When forged over burning human bones, swords become filled with "spirit," says the Taiwanese swordmaker behind the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sword and other masterpieces. Video.

September 08, 2009
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Rock rabbit dung heaps in Africa—some dating back tens of thousands of years—are time capsules of climate and vegetation information. Video.

September 04, 2009
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Global warming is putting the pika, a hamster-like mammal, in peril. High in the Colorado mountains, a National Geographic researcher is trying to find out why its numbers are falling. Video.

September 04, 2009
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Former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, star of the new documentary The Cove, again confronts the Japanese town where dolphins are trapped and killed by hand in "drive hunts." Video.

September 03, 2009
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Low water levels at a southern Mexico reservoir have revealed the remains of a 16th-century convent submerged when the lake was created 40 years ago. Video.

September 02, 2009
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See undersea worlds that stand to be lost—and that six Southeast Asian governments are trying to save with their new Coral Triangle initiative to protect coastal reefs. Video.

September 01, 2009
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In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s.Video.

August 31, 2009
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As monsoons and cyclones worsen due to climate change in the South Asian country, many coastal peoples are migrating to drier cities.

August 27, 2009
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As the Dead Sea—really a giant freshwater lake—dramatically shrinks, Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian environmentalists have begun to devise ways to slow the decline.

August 26, 2009
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In underground passageways that snake underneath the French capital, nearly six million people who died of disease in the Middle Ages share a final resting place.

August 25, 2009
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Two Asian elephants in Thailand have been fitted with new prosthetic limbs after each lost a leg to landmine explosions.

August 24, 2009
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Five bodies found in Bolivia may be guerrilla soldiers killed four decades ago for their involvement with revolutionary leader Che Guevara, anthropologists claim. Video.

August 21, 2009
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A new study finds that people naturally walk in circles when their sense of direction is lost. Researchers had people walk in the desert and through a forest. Video.

August 20, 2009
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Putting the "extreme" in extreme makeover, some Russian surgeons are courting controversy by breaking legs, among other procedures, to make the limbs longer for cosmetic purposes. Video.

August 19, 2009
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A WWF spokesperson says that, unless development around giant panda habitat in China is controlled, the panda could become extinct within two or three generations. Video.

August 18, 2009

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