An international team of scientists is preparing to drill a 2.5-mile hold into the heart of a volcano that's showing signs of life again in Naples, Italy -- alarming some.

Atlantis' astronauts are taking another spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than

Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent climate-research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, some of which argue that

The study, conducted by Engineering and Technology magazine, shows the energy-efficient light bulbs lose on average 22 percent of their brightness over their lifetime

Two astronauts breezed through the first spacewalk of their mission Thursday as they upgraded the International Space Station with a spare antenna and other

The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter have been named by the Webby Awards as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.

Spacewalkers Mike Foreman and Bobby Satcher have successfully completed their planned work outside the space station today, at times 2 hours ahead of schedule

Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her

California regulators have adopted the first energy-efficiency standards for televisions in the U.S., a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from

At 11:51 A.M., NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has docked with the International Space Station, 220 miles in the air over Australia and Tasmiania.

Scientists have uncovered heart disease in 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, suggesting the risk factors behind it are not just modern in nature

In a memo sent to employees, the CEO of his investment firm says the 56-year-old Allen received the diagnosis this month and has begun chemotherapy.

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts scoured their ship Tuesday for any signs of launch damage while pursuing the International Space Station

Venezuelan president says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to 'bomb clouds' to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and

The space shuttle Atlantis roared into space Monday afternoon to begin a vital 11-day delivery run to the International Space Station

The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis is strapped in and ready for lift off

NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis for its afternoon liftoff.

Geologists say more than 70 percent of Kauai's beaches are eroding while Oahu has lost a quarter of its sandy shoreline.

A conservative Hollywood filmmaker whose controversial political iPhone application was rejected by Apple, announced Thursday that the company had reversed its

When people hear about an impending meteor shower, their first impression may be of a sky filled with shooting stars pouring down like rain

Some of the wealthiest people in the world are forking over $70,000 for a USB drive containing their personal genome sequence, according to The London Times.

West Virginia beekeeper Mark C. Baker had high hopes for his valuable hives as he readied them for the cross-country journey to California's almond groves.

All the surveys agree; one of the top consumer electronic gift categories is digital cameras. Surprised? Me neither.

A conservative filmmaker thought he had developed a worthwhile iPhone app: a telephone directory featuring politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth

Intel is paying rival AMD $1.25 billion to squash a legal battle over sales tactics

On November 6, 2009, The Catalina Sky Survey noticed something in the sky — an asteroid, seemingly on a collision course with Earth. The object would miss our planet by a mere

A large iceberg was spotted off an island about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, a rare sight in waters so far north, Australian scientists said.

The curator of invertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History hopes 'bug evidence' – from pupae, larvae, eggs and adult blowflies -- may help

Chinese scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said today, reigniting debate over

Many dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded just like mammals or birds, potentially explaining their extraordinary success before their extinction

An anonymous group has exploited a security loophole in the social networking site Facebook by 'hijacking' hundreds of groups

A U.S. grand jury indicted eight foreigners on charges that they hacked a computer network used by the credit card processing company RBS WorldPay and stole more than $9 million

Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography

A Seattle teams has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space — an idea spurred by science

The massive machine at the center of the world's biggest scientific experiment has malfunctioned again – derailed by a bit of bread dropped by a bird

If you’re like most people, you're paralyzed by the baffling technologies manufacturers invent just to confuse you. It’s not that difficult, really. Here's

Punishment beatings have been banned from Chinese camps set up to cure teenage internet addicts after one of them died

The latest trend in eco-tourism is completely out of this world ... and right around the corner

A rare haul of Iron Age jewelry discovered by an amateur treasure hunter is being unveiled by the Museum of Scotland

A woman from Texas is suing Facebook and Blockbuster for posting information about her online.

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean or sea

Pink, slimy and repellent, the Nomura’s jellyfish is an authentic horror of the deep. Now the creatures have sunk a 10-ton fishing trawler

A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana

NASA's Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia, one that comes after months of being stuck in deep Martian sand.

8 tech trends coming online shortly, and how they'll affect your life next year

Japanese engineers have taken us one step closer to the robot revolution by developing a machine inspired by the movie Aliens.

On October 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message across the Internet, and it was all of two letters: 'lo.' It crashed the entire system. The Internet was born.

As LA Police Chief William Bratton prepared to ride off into the sunset himself, he helped show off a prototype "smart" police car that he hopes can be

At 11:30 a.m. this morning, the Ares 1-X rocket blasted off through clear skies at Cape Canaveral

A team of Bigfoot enthusiasts is hoping to find the legendary creature in the bogs and barrens of a West Virginia wilderness area

The US Justice Department is investigating possible violations of antitrust law in the optical disc drive industry

After a series of lightning strikes overnight, NASA briefly delayed the launch of the Ares 1-X test rocket

Bad weather was interfering with NASA's attempt to launch a new, experimental rocket for the second day in a row early Wednesday.

Environmentalists tell Fox News wastewater dumping is all too common for the cruise industry

A series of delays led NASA to postpone and eventually cancel the Ares 1-X rocket launch,

Dinosaur experts are examining the fossilized skull of a sea monster so large it could have eaten a Tyrannosaurus rex for breakfast

NASA's Ares 1-X rocket sits on a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. Weather conditions may hold up the launch

NASA's brand-new rocket, the vehicle planned to launch astronauts spaceward after the space shuttles are retired, is poised to make its first-ever test flight

A large crater found in a meadow in northern Latvia is a hoax, not a meteorite

Young Indiana Jones was a good story. But the real thing is even better. Meet Andrew Du.

NASA is confident that its first test flight of the new Ares I-X rocket will go well next week

Things always seem over the top in Japan, from the cartoons to camcorders and cell phones. It's almost no surprise that Microsoft has partnered with Burger

SUVs owners are often castigated by treehuggers for their Earth-unfriendly lifestyle. A new book argues that pets are just as bad.

There is an air of vagueness regarding next year's Atlas Evolved Expendable launch of the unpiloted, reusable military space plane.

The Chinese government is ratcheting up its cyberspying operations against the U.S., a congressional advisory panel found, citing an example of a carefully orchestrated campaign

Many of them are doing it grudgingly, perhaps because a friend pressures them or a teacher or boss makes them try the 140-character microblogging site.

About the size of a standard DVD, a newly described spider is now considered the largest in a class of web-spinners

Social-networking site MySpace is launching a music video service that will pop into millions of profiles at rival Facebook as well.

Microsoft Windows 7 is a slick, much improved operating system that should go a long way toward erasing the bad impression left by its previous effort, Vista

A Chinese group is accusing search engine powerhouse Google of illegally copying Chinese-language works for its digital library

The newly identified creature weighed less than two pounds and stood a little over 4 feet tall

For the first time in nearly 30 years, a brand new NASA rocket has rolled out to a seaside launching pad in Florida to prepare for a launch test debut

Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds

Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.

NASA is trying to quell fears about the 2012 end of the world, and has condemned Sony's film

A major engineering effort is underway to find if there is anything other than bizarre coincidence behind the rash of water main breaks that have plagued the

Merely dominating the world of search is no longer sufficient for the big search engine with the funny little name.

A faulty part in the steering system for NASA's new Ares I-X rocket has delayed the booster's trek to its Florida launch pad by at least a day as engineers

Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years.

Two Chinese scientists have built a working black hole—using the same materials that made invisibility cloaks possible

A lake lander forms part of NASA's proposed Titan Saturn System Mission, an ambitious plan to send three probes — including a balloon-mounted vehicle and an

Energy drinks are meant to be edgy and cool, and drunk by young men. So Pepsi decided to release an Apple iPhone application for its Amp Energy drink to appeal

Giant, non-native snakes have been menacing Florida residents in recent months. The problem could rapidly become a national one

As if being an astronaut wasn't already a dream job, add personal calls from the band U2 to the list of perks in space.

Fingerprint technology and a revolutionary multispectral camera confirm an extraordinary art discovery

The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two other space travelers landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday, ending the

Researchers have discovered that some monkeys have a special bond with their newborns, similar to the way humans interact with their babies.

The internal clock that controls our biological rhythms doesn't tick the way scientists have long believed, say mathematicians

Two NASA spacecraft crashed into the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, in a search for water ice

Get ready for a cosmic collision! Friday morning, NASA's LCROSS ship will end its mission with a bang

Paleontologists in France discover some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever

33 arrested in U.S. and Egypt in connection with sophisticated identity theft ring

After an especially strong breeding season, sea lions in San Francisco are not only thriving, they are crowding into commercial fishing harbors, and sparking a

NASA says the chances of an 885-foot (270-meter) asteroid striking Earth in 2036 have been downgraded

A NASA spacecraft will deliberately crash into the Moon early Friday on a mission that could enhance the prospects of establishing a manned lunar base.