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China's Rare-Earth Mineral Monopoly

While nations clash with China over the rare-earth minerals critical to energy technology, scientists hunt for other options.
Oldest Alien Planets Found

Two Jupiter-like worlds have been found orbiting a star that formed less than a billion years after the big bang, scientists say.
Photos: Flashy Feathered Dinosaur

Microraptors—four-winged, feathered dinosaurs that lived 125 million years ago—sported Earth's oldest known iridescence, a new study says.
Cameron Reaches Deepest Ocean Point

Stuffed into a "vertical torpedo," the explorer-filmmaker has become the first human to reach the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep alone.
News Bites: Adventurers of the Year Chosen

The people have spoken, and the 2012 Adventurers of the Year have been chosen!
T. Rex Bite Strongest Ever on Land

The dinosaur chomped with ten times the force of an alligator, a new study says—but something in the sea was even stronger.

Zodiacal Light Rising

Once mistook for campfires and volcanoes, the faint cone of light caused by interplanetary dust will be visible for the next two weeks.
Sizing Up the Supermoon

Just how much bigger than average was Saturday's supermoon? Princeton professor Robert Vanderbei uses lunar pictures to crunch the numbers.
Mercury MESSENGER 101

As NASA's first Mercury orbiter approaches the tiny planet, get the facts behind the mission and find out what scientists hope to learn.

Blast Off!

Take off with the National Geographic Angry Birds Space book as they fly through space on an intergalactic rescue mission.

Apostles Photo Gallery

They were unlikely leaders. As the Bible tells it, most knew more about mending nets than winning converts when Jesus said he would make them "fishers of men." Yet 2,000 years later, all over the world, the Apostles are still drawing people in.
La Bella Principessa

A chalk-and-ink portrait may be a $100 million Leonardo.
Last of the Cave People

A nomadic people in Papua New Guinea were rumored to be living in remote caves in the forest. When we found them, they sent a surprising message to the modern world.