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Bill Would Let Feds Take Over Internet During Crisis

1 day 10 hours ago |AOL News

J. Scott Applewhite, AP

(June 18) -- Newly proposed legislation would give the federal government authority to seize and even switch off the Internet during a national crisis. The bill, put forward Thursday by Sen. Joe Lieb ...

Ripley's Can't Find Buried Whale, Deploys Search Team

1 day 20 hours ago |AOL News

Heribert Proepper, AP

(June 18) -- Researchers for Ripley's Believe It or Not! are having a whale of a time trying to find the remains of a dead sperm whale they buried 21 years ago. The whale carcass washed up on Prince ...

Cameron's Oil Spill Brain Trust Issues Strategy Report

2 days 12 hours ago |AOL News

Lee Jin-man, AP

(June 17) -- After a 10-hour brainstorming session at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington earlier this month, the team of experts convened by blockbuster director James Cameron has a fe ...

Dead Sperm Whale Found Near BP Oil Spill

2 days 13 hours ago |AOL News

Corbis

(June 17) -- A dead sperm whale was found floating 77 miles from the Deepwater Horizon spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are tr ...

Warhol in Space: Apollo 12 Secretly Carried Art to the Moon

2 days 19 hours ago |AOL News

Jade Dellinger

(June 17) -- Neil Armstrong's moon walk on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission was a small step for a man and a giant leap for mankind, but a small ceramic tile snuck aboard the Apollo 12 mission a few months ...

First 5 Months of Year Were Planet's Warmest Ever

3 days 16 hours ago |AOL News

(June 16) -- April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, but this year, April global record warmth brought May global record warmth. May was the warmest on record globally, according to the Nati ...

Report: Loophole in Climate Bill Could Level Forests

3 days 20 hours ago |AOL News

Rick Bowmer, AP

(June 16) -- The Senate climate bill, already controversial, contains a loophole that allows utility companies to discount all emissions from burning biomass fuels, according to a report released tod ...

Oil Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Thought

4 days 9 hours ago |AP

Eric Gay, AP

NEW ORLEANS (June 15) -- Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million ...

Japanese Space Capsule Recovered in Australia

5 days 18 hours ago |AP

JAXA

ADELAIDE, Australia (June 14) -- A team of scientists flew to the Australian Outback on Monday and recovered a Japanese space capsule that they hope contains asteroid samples providing clues into the ...

BP's Spill Relief Wells Draw Scrutiny

6 days 7 hours ago |AP

Eric Gay, AP

NEW ORLEANS (June 13) - In the chaotic days after the oil rig explosion, BP engineers and federal regulators desperate to plug the blown-out well scrambled to complete plans for a pair of deepwater r ...

Japanese Asteroid Probe Makes Historic Return

6 days 15 hours ago |Space.com

JAXA

(June 13) -- A Japanese space capsule returned to Earth and plunged through the atmosphere over the Australian outback today, capping a seven-year space journey that took it to a nearby asteroid in a ...

Scientists: 13th-C. Saint Died From Blocked Heart

7 days 9 hours ago |AOL News

Pier Paolo Cito, Pool / AP

(June 12) -- The miracles performed by Rose of Viterbo are well known to many Catholics. Legend has it the 13th-century Italian saint stood for hours on a raging pyre without being burned (a useful s ...