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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Supermoon!

Mar 11, 2011 - 5:47 PM |AOL News

Getty Images

Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... supermoon! That's what you'll see when you gaze into the heavens on March 19. It'll sort of be hard to miss. On that night, the full moon...

Space Shuttle Discovery Rides Off Into History

Mar 9, 2011 - 4:42 PM |AOL News

John Raoux, AP

With today's picture-perfect completion of its flawless final mission, designated STS-133, the space shuttle Discovery ends a 27-year odyssey of unparalleled milestones in the history of NASA's first...

Space Shuttle Discovery Touches Down for Last Time

Mar 9, 2011 - 11:59 AM |AP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Discovery ended its career as the world's most flown spaceship Wednesday, returning from orbit for the last time and taking off in a new direction as a museum piece. NASA's...

Space Shuttle Discovery Landing [LIVE STREAM]

Mar 9, 2011 - 11:43 AM |AOL News Surge Desk

They're almost home. The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery are expected to land today at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:57 a.m. EST. It's the 39th and final mission for...

Stink Bugs are Booming: Bad for Farmers, Good for Exterminators

Mar 9, 2011 - 9:12 AM |DailyFinance

In 1998, Karen Bernhard, a part-time entomologist with the Penn State Cooperative Extension in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, began getting calls from residents who were creeped-out by a unusual...

Sickened Seals Washing Up on the Jersey Shore

Mar 8, 2011 - 5:21 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

Earlier today millions of dead fish washed up in Redondo Beach, Calif. But that's not the only sad marine life news to report. According to NBC Philadelphia, a higher-than-usual number of seals are...

This 60-Year-Old Mother Just Hatched a New Chick

Mar 8, 2011 - 2:30 PM |AOL News

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Wisdom just had another baby. And the fact that she's hatching new chicks six decades after her own birth is only one of the noteworthy achievements of this Laysan albatross, the oldest known wild...

Redondo Beach Dead Fish Another Sign of the Apocalypse? Twitter Thinks So

Mar 8, 2011 - 2:20 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

It sure has been a tough year for animals, but has it been of biblical proportions? As news of a massive fish kill at King Harbor in Redondo Beach, Calif., spread across the Internet on Tuesday,...

Capt. Kirk Wakes Up Space Shuttle Discovery Crew [VIDEO]

Mar 8, 2011 - 11:10 AM |AOL News

NASA / AP

It was a perfect blending of science fact and fiction. As the crew of the space shuttle Discovery wiped the dust from their eyes Monday morning, preparing to undock from the International Space...

Internet for Robots: It's Not Skynet, It's RoboEarth

Mar 7, 2011 - 6:30 PM |AOL News

It's one of science fiction's most familiar ideas: computers that can, when hooked up to other computers, become self-aware and exhibit human characteristics. The results are often sinister, as the...

No Dumbos: Elephants Learn Cooperation, Study Finds

Mar 7, 2011 - 3:00 PM |AOL News

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A new study shows that elephants have a talent that even many humans lack: Pachyderms can learn cooperation. In experiments at a Thai refuge, paired elephants quickly figured out that they could...

Alien Life Found in Meteorites? Scientist's Claim Stirs Debate

Mar 7, 2011 - 1:59 PM |AOL News

Journal of Cosmology

Ladies and gentlemen, start your ET debate engines. A NASA biologist has claimed he discovered microfossil organisms -- ancient bacteria -- inside slices of rare meteorites that fell to Earth and...