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Retired Air Force Major Predicts UFO Sightings at Royal Wedding

Mar 30, 2011 - 4:45 PM |AOL News

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The upcoming royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is expected to be viewed by more than a billion people worldwide -- and possibly a few extraterrestrials, according to at least...

Could Stem Cell Transplants Save Japan's Nuclear Workers?

Mar 30, 2011 - 8:03 AM |AOL News

Kyodo News, AP

Scientists say Japan's faceless heroes -- the nuclear workers toiling inside the radioactive, quake-stricken Fukushima plant -- could get a life-saving boost from a procedure normally used on cancer...

Japan: Not Enough Safeguards to Protect Nuclear Plant

Mar 29, 2011 - 10:47 PM |AP

TOKYO -- Japan's government admitted that its safeguards were insufficient to protect a nuclear plant against the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the facility and caused it to spew radiation,...

Military Expert: The World Could Never Survive a Real 'Battle: Los Angeles'

Mar 29, 2011 - 11:29 AM |AOL News

20th Century Fox Film

A giant spaceship from another world arrives during the day and positions itself above the White House in Washington, while more ships do the same over other major cities around the world. Then,...

2 Million-Year-Old Mastodon Skull and Tusks Unearthed in Chile

Mar 28, 2011 - 2:21 PM |AOL News

AP

Now that's some mammoth discovery. The skull and tusks of a 2 million-year-old elephant relative -- a mastodon -- have been unearthed in Chile. Construction workers building a hydroelectric power...

Stunning Video Shows Wrath of Japan Tsunami

Mar 27, 2011 - 2:30 PM |AOL News

YouTube

A stunning video posted on YouTube captures the Japan tsunami ravaging the city of Kesennuma, in the northeastern part of the country. The clip begins as a wall of water breaches the coastline and...

We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes

Mar 27, 2011 - 9:23 AM |AOL News

Christine Daniloff / MIT News

Planning on looking at your family tree? If you go back far enough in time, you might discover relatives who used to live on Mars. While that notion may seem a little far-fetched at first, don't...

Cities Around Globe Go Dark for Earth Hour [PHOTOS]

Mar 26, 2011 - 6:18 PM |AOL News

Franck Prevel, Getty Images

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Tsunami Threat Could Catch Pacific Northwest Off Guard

Mar 26, 2011 - 6:10 PM |AP

Rick Bowmer, AP

CANNON BEACH, Ore. - When the big one hits the Pacific Northwest, the best place to escape the wall of water moving at jetliner speed from 50 miles off the coast may be a City Hall on stilts. Once...

Did Chinese Scientists Turn Mice Gay?

Mar 25, 2011 - 10:42 AM |AOL News

AFP / Getty Images

If your pet mouse doesn't find the lady mice attractive, he could be lacking in serotonin. New research from scientists in China argues that the so-called happiness hormone plays a role in the...

NASA Plans 2025 Manned Mission to Asteroid

Mar 25, 2011 - 6:24 AM |AOL News

JAXA / AP

It's a little soon for astronauts to suit up, but NASA is planning to send a manned mission to an asteroid in 2025. In keeping with President Barack Obama's 2010 vision, the space agency has shifted...

US Robots to Peek Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

Mar 24, 2011 - 9:57 AM |AOL News

Courtesy of iRobot

The world may soon get a glimpse inside Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant -- through the "eyes" of a U.S.-made robot. A Massachusetts company that manufactures robots for U.S. military bomb...

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