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Monkeys with computer chips implanted in their brains are helping researchers develop technology that could help paralyzed humans become more self-sufficient. Video.

July 27, 2009
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The recently explored Son Doong cave, filled with poisonous centipedes and towering stalagmites, beats out the previous world-record holder for the largest single cave passage ever found, British explorers report.

July 24, 2009
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As suburbs consume baboon habitat, the cheeky monkeys have been raiding homes and garbage bins for food, prompting residents to fight back—some with guns, others with community education. Video.

July 24, 2009
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See a "flash mob" fill a train station with feathers, a bogus beach beguile in Old Blighty, a moon rock return to space, and more in the week's best news pictures.

July 23, 2009
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The short legs of the dachshund, the basset hound, and other diminutive dog breeds have been linked to a single mutation that could be linked to a form of human dwarfism.

July 23, 2009
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The July, 22, 2009, total solar eclipse, the longest-lasting of the 21st century, darkened the skies over some of Asia's most densely populated regions.

July 22, 2009
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On the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, during NASA's Apollo 11 mission, the unconventional astronaut riffs on Twittering, not knowing whether moonwalking was "far-out," and more.

Republished July 20, 2009
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The total solar eclipse on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, will be the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century. Preview the eclipse via animations and more. Video.

July 20, 2009
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As records have resurfaced, enthusiasts working from an abandoned McDonald's have begun restoring famous images of the moon made by the 1960s Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in unprecedented detail.

July 16, 2009
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A white tiger dives into the blue, Google goes three-wheeling at Stonehenge, a conservator "camps" at Westminster Abbey, and more in the week's best news pictures.

July 16, 2009
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On the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the unconventional astronaut riffs on Twittering, not knowing whether moonwalking was "far-out," and more.

July 16, 2009
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Forty years have passed since humans first walked on the moon, but many conspiracy theorists still insist that it was all an elaborate hoax. Examine the evidence, and find out why experts say some of the most common claims simply don't hold water.

July 16, 2009
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Vampire bats in Peru are increasingly biting people, and a National Geographic researcher is trying to find ways to stem the resulting spread of deadly rabies. Video.

July 16, 2009
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Don't let the foot-long claws fool you. Unlike the X-men's most popular pugilist, this newfound dinosaur species was no predator, scientists say.

July 15, 2009
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Men of the ancient civilization in Mexico carried ancestral thighbones as status symbols, new grave excavations suggest.

July 15, 2009

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