September 4, 2010 – 6:48 am
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: More than a decade ago, British physicist Stephen Hawking said there was a 50-50 chance that a unified "theory of everything" would be discovered within 20 years. Now he explains why he thinks the theory has been found.
September 4, 2010 – 5:42 am
Google says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair.
September 4, 2010 – 5:02 am
Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.
September 4, 2010 – 3:56 am
Playing video games by moving your body rather than by pressing buttons on a controller is sweaty, sweaty work.
September 4, 2010 – 3:52 am
Google has settled a lawsuit alleging privacy violations in connection with its Buzz social networking service, according to a court document filed on Friday.
September 4, 2010 – 3:50 am
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: In January, a 7.0 quake hit Haiti, and 230,000 people died. Today, a 7.0 quake hit New Zealand, and early indications are that it caused relatively few major casualties. Why the difference?
September 4, 2010 – 1:35 am
A Chinese satellite may have intentionally nudged another spacecraft during secretive space maneuvers in near-Earth orbit, according to analysts.
September 4, 2010 – 12:45 am
Digg, one of the first Internet sites that let users "dig" Web news stories by voting them thumbs up or down, is trying to avoid getting dug into obscurity.
September 4, 2010 – 12:23 am
For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
September 4, 2010 – 12:11 am
This latest example of all-too-human behavior, originally posted on LiveLeaks, became the subject of international outrage this week, hot on the heels of the "Cat Bin Lady of Britain."
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