Massive earthquakes that struck the town of New Madrid, Mo., in 1811 can be traced to the actions of the mighty Mississippi River thousands of years earlier, a new study in the journal Nature suggests.
Two distant alien planets around a dying star have been discovered locked in the closest orbital embrace ever seen, a new study has found.
While everyone is busy talking about how 3-D is going to revolutionize gaming, a little 2-D game is lighting the summer on fire.
Not only was the past decade the warmest on record, but climate indicators being tracked globally are worsening, scientists reported Wednesday in their annual “State of the Climate.”
Your smart phone applications are watching you — much more closely than you might like.
Sprint Nextel said Wednesday that it gained subscribers in its latest quarter, the first such gain in three years, as it continued to improve customer service and retention.
China has announced plans to send two of its prized giant pandas to Japan, the latest installment of panda diplomacy aimed at warming the two countries’ often-strained relations.
Ivy Bean, the Internet-famous centenarian heralded as world’s oldest Twitter user, passed away last night at her retirement home in Branford, England. She was 104.
Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world’s oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world’s oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide.
A trio of Northern Californians is suing Apple because their iPads reportedly overheat too quickly in the sun.
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