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The Incredible Shrinking Moon

9 hours 59 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Aug. 20) -- Simply stated, the moon is shrinking. According to a recent scientific study, including images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or the LRO, the lunar surface has revealed a ...

UN Links Pakistan Floods to Climate Change

10 hours 40 minutes ago |AOL News

Khalid Tanveer, AP

UNITED NATIONS (Aug. 20) -- Pakistan is awash with the worst flooding in more than a century; Russia fights wildfires stemming from unprecedented high temperatures; China faces mudslides of an intens ...

How Much Oil Really Remains in the Gulf?

1 day 5 hours ago |AOL News Surge Desk

(Aug. 19) -- How much oil is still left in the gulf after the worst accidental oil spill in world history was finally stopped last month by the "static kill" procedure? That depends on who you ask. ...

How Big Was BP Oil Plume? A Geographically Agnostic Guide

1 day 7 hours ago |AOL News Surge Desk

(Aug. 19) -- The BP oil spill may be on the verge of being sealed for good, but the controversy over its lingering effects has hardly been more pointed. Besides an unusual and contentious recess hea ...

Radioactive Boars on the Rise in Germany

1 day 8 hours ago |AP

BERLIN (Aug. 19) -- It was a big shot. A big hog. And a big disappointment. When Georg van Bebber hauled back his wild boar from Ebersberg forest near Munich after a day of hunting, he was exhilarate ...

Even Weak Tropical Systems Pose Serious Flood Threats

1 day 14 hours ago |AOL News

Mark Humphrey, AP

(Aug. 19) -- While Tropical Depression 5 is certainly not destined for the annals of weather history, it is the latest example of how even weak tropical systems have the potential to cause life-threa ...

Study: Bacteria Smells, Literally

2 days 4 hours ago |AOL News Surge Desk

(Aug. 18) -- News flash: Bacteria smells! No, literally, it smells -- as in, bacteria has the ability to detect and differentiate between odors. That's the unlikely, accidental finding of a new study ...

First of Rescued Sea Turtles Are Returned to the Gulf

2 days 8 hours ago |AOL News

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(Aug. 18) -- In the latest sign of recovery for the Gulf of Mexico, government scientists today sent back to the wild the first batch of endangered sea turtles that were rescued from the oil-tainted ...

'Zombie' Ants Taken Over by 48M-Year-Old Parasitic Fungus

2 days 14 hours ago |AOL News Surge Desk

(Aug. 18) -- Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence -- 48 million years old -- of a fungus that takes over the bodies and minds of ants. "The fungus, which is alive and well in forests toda ...

Pentagon Again Delays Test of Missile-Blasting Laser

2 days 15 hours ago |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (Aug. 18) -- The Defense Department was forced to delay again a key test of a powerful missile-destroying laser equipped on a Boeing aircraft due to technical problems. The test, described ...

Mankind Found Not Guilty of Mammoth Murder

2 days 15 hours ago |AOL News

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LONDON (Aug. 18) -- Mankind has eaten countless animal species to extinction, from the lumbering dodos of Mauritius to the (unfortunately delicious) North American passenger pigeon. But we no longer ...

Why Cute Little Liger Cubs Are So Controversial

3 days 6 hours ago |AOL News

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(Aug. 17) -- The Taiwanese government recently confiscated some pretty cute contraband -- two newborn liger cubs. The hybrid offspring of a male lion named Simba and female tiger named Beauty were ho ...