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Gulf Spill Wildlife Disaster Lurking Below the Surface

8 days 3 hours ago |AOL News

Joe Raedle, Getty Images

(May 18) -- The Gulf of Mexico oil spill doesn't yet have the sort of tragic poster animals like oil-slicked birds by the hundreds of thousands. But federal officials and environmentalists say the im ...

Report: Hazardous Chemical in Our Canned Food

8 days 4 hours ago |AOL News

Nick Ut, AP

(May 18) -- The health hazards of bisphenol A are well documented, but now scientists report that the chemical used in the coating of cans to protect food from corrosion and bacteria is pervasive in ...

2010 Brings Warmest April on Record, Scientists Say

8 days 4 hours ago |AOL News

Thibault Camus, AP

(May 18) -- The poet T.S. Eliot once wrote that "April is the cruelest month." According to newly released statistics, this year April also happened to be one of the warmest. After combining the dat ...

Ultimate Way to Go Green? Skip Kids, Writer Says

8 days 6 hours ago |AOL News

Lisa Hymas, Grist.com

(May 18) -- The environment faces daunting threats in the coming century, from overconsumption of fossil fuel to a lack of clean water and habitat loss to ocean depletion. But ultimately, all those t ...

Angel's 'Miracle': Genetic Anomaly Saves UK Girl

8 days 8 hours ago |AOL News

Cavendish Press

(May 18) -- A British girl is alive today thanks to a genetic anomaly that resulted in a duplicate set of kidney valves. At age 5, Angel Burton had suffered so many kidney infections that doctors wer ...

Molecular Robots Take a Tiny Yet Vital Step Forward

9 days 4 hours ago |AOL News

Paul Michelotti, AFP / Getty Images

(May 17) -- Imagine a swarm of molecule-sized robots traveling through the human body to destroy a cancerous tumor or to deliver life-saving drugs to diseased tissue. That's the idea behind a breakth ...

Texas Teen Wins Big at International Science Fair

9 days 7 hours ago |AOL News

Chris Ayers, Intel

(May 17) -- This isn't your average high school science fair. A Texas teenager will pocket $75,000 after taking top prize at an international competition that unites brainy teens from around the glob ...

Fade to Black: Brief Power Outage Halts Spacewalk

9 days 9 hours ago |AOL News

NASA / AP

(May 17) -- Two American astronauts floated outside the International Space Station today to install an extra space-to-ground antenna, work that was briefly interrupted by a power outage. Garrett Rei ...

Ash Cloud Disrupts Flights in England, Ireland

10 days 10 hours ago |AP

Scott Heppell, AP

LONDON (May 16) -- Europe's busiest airport closed early Monday morning as a dense cloud of volcanic ash drifted across England from Iceland, aviation authorities said. The airspace over London's Hea ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis Arrives at Space Station

10 days 11 hours ago |AP

NASA / Getty Images

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (May 16) - The shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday amid a flurry of picture-taking intended to make up for a curtailed safety survey the day bef ...

BP: Mile-Long Tube Now Drawing Oil Away From Well

10 days 13 hours ago |AP

Mark J. Terrill, AP

HAMMOND, La. (May 16) -- In a significant step toward containing a massive Gulf of Mexico oil leak, BP said a mile-long tube was funneling crude Sunday from a blown well to a tanker ship after three ...

BP Uses Tube, Chemicals to Try to Tamp Oil Leak

11 days 14 hours ago |AOL News

Travis Heying, Wichita Eagle / MCT

(May 15) -- Undersea robots are maneuvering a tube into a jagged oil pipe today to try to tamp crude that's still gushing out into the Gulf of Mexico, and the feds have approved the use of chemicals ...