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Did Henry VIII have a blood disorder?
A single blood protein, the Kell antigen, might be to blame both for the wives of Henry VIII many miscarriages and for his bizarre paranoid mid-life behavior.
March 22, 2011
Oldest known wild bird in U.S. became a mother again, and survived March 2011 tsunami
A Laysan albatross at Midway is the oldest known wild bird in the US. She recently became a mom at over 60 years of age - and survived the 2011 tsunami, too.
March 21, 2011
Ötzi the Iceman: See what he looked like
Reconstruction artists have given us a photo of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old body discovered locked in Alpine ice 20 years ago.
March 21, 2011
Space shuttle Discovery and it’s legacy
NASA talks about the legacy of space shuttle Discovery, piloting the mission that launched the Hubble Space telescope, and what's next for human spaceflight.
March 21, 2011
Forecast: Spring rains on Saturn’s moon
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found evidence of spring rains around the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
March 20, 2011
Video of March 11, 2011 tsunami from ship at sea
The March 11, 2011 tsunami propagated outward from a 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake, just 43 miles from its nearest point to Japan.
March 19, 2011
Diluted radiation plume may reach California on Friday
The diluted radiation plume from Japan's damaged nuclear reactors might brush the Aleutian Islands today and sweep into southern California by late Friday.
March 17, 2011
MESSENGER becomes first craft to orbit Mercury
On Thursday, March 17, 2011, the MESSENGER spacecraft will become the first space probe to enter orbit around the innermost planet of our solar system, Mercury.
March 17, 2011
Blood pressure linked to sugary drinks
Drinking more than one sugar-sweetened drink a day is linked to higher blood pressure.
March 16, 2011
Greenhouse to grow food on the moon
Gene Giacomelli describes how a new kind of greenhouse would work to help feed astronauts on a moon mission in the future.
March 16, 2011
