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Announced in 2004, the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge has been five years under construction. Due to be completed in 2010, the bridge has slowly been taking shape. Here, with some amazing photographs is a record of this incredible bridge as it nears completion.

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Scorpion colonies become rarer as you go further north around the globe, but since 1860 a, ever expanding colony of these sometimes venomous creatures has existed in Southern England. These creatures are often associated with hot, dry, desert lands but they are learning to adapt.

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Fresh water is a precious, diminishing resource. Solutions exist within the cycles of nature.

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The sight of a dam - one of the largest and most complex structures that humanity has ever created - can be quite breath-taking. Take a look at some of the most spectacular of these structures.

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A look at the various methods that medical examiners use to determine time of death in medicolegal investigations.

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You have probably seen the grey. You may even have encountered or at least heard of the red. However, have you ever seen a black squirrel? Take a look at this small but dark beasty of the forest. Oh, and they are really, really cute.

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Are high school students’ backpacks causing permanent damage to the spine from too much weight?

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Homosexual behavior in nature, surely not? As our own cultural attitudes towards gay people relax scientists are increasingly more comfortable with revealing their findings that Mother Nature is pretty cool with it too. Here are ten animals that do the ‘wild thing’ with members of the same sex.

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Is it science? Is it art? Vulgar? Macabre perhaps. You decide for yourself. The popular “Body Worlds” takes donated human corpses and ‘plasticizes’ them into everyday positions for all to see. They will not decay, age or change in any way. Body Worlds does in plastics what mummification only came close to achieving; attain a form of immortality.

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According to Greek Mythology, Poseidon was God of the Sea and the “Earth-Shaker” of earthquakes. It is he that controls the plan of the oceans to destruct and destroy.