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.

European Union regulators said they were preparing to settle a long and costly antitrust battle with Microsoft Corp. with a deal to give Windows users a choice of web browsers.

Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for mapping ribosomes, the protein-producing

The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late

Feat may prove that the linen burial cloth is a medieval fake

The scale of the phishing attack on Hotmail could stretch further than first thought, with accounts on Google and Yahoo now threatened

the classic puzzle game Tetris can boost your brain power, according to a new study

Few people can imagine drinking water that came from a toilet or sewer... no matter how sophisticated the purification process. They're already doing it in

Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiber-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

Personalized medicine mixed expressly for your genetic makeup may not be mere science fiction

The Federal Trade Commission will require writers on the Web to disclose payments

A baby mammoth, frozen for 40,000 years, was discovered perfectly preserved

The Alt Car Expo at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium has a parking lot and showroom full of cars other vehicles... some of them, unusual looking, but all of

Sampson, a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex, still needs a home after bidders failed to meet the minimum price at a Las Vegas auction.

Winners of the Ig Nobel awards are announced, an annual tribute to research goofy but surprisingly practical

Researchers made public fossils from a 4.4-million-year-old human forebearer, suggesting our earliest ancestors were more modern than scholars assumed

A schoolgirl tired of her grandmother's "moaning" decided to sell the pensioner on eBay

Sue, the best T. rex specimen ever found, may have been killed by a bird disease

A spacecraft carrying Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte and two crew mates lifted off from the Kazakh steppe on schedule Wednesday headed for the

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a "poll" posted on Facebook that asked users the most unsocial, unspeakable question: Should President Obama be

Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer

So far at least 18 bills have been introduced as Congress works carefully to give federal authorities the power to protect the country in the event of a massive cyberattack.

A global shortage of medical isotopes used in scores of medical imaging tests has forced some doctors to delay patient care

A gecko with leopard-like spots and a fanged frog that eats birds are among 163 new species discovered in Bangkok

Despite earning little so far, investors are ready to pump $99 million into the dotcom darling

Amidst fears of cyberwarfare and hacker attack, the U.S. attempts to improve the power grid

With a launch pad gas leak fixed, NASA plans to launch a Delta II rocket and missile defense demo satellites

An unemployed man unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found

The new findings, detailed in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Science, come in the wake of further evidence of lunar polar water ice by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and

NASA's first version of the rocket slated to replace the space shuttle and send astronauts back to the moon will make its debut test launch Oct. 27, four days

New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are

Federal researchers are looking into whether tweets via Twitter can beat USGS seismographs in reporting earthquakes, according to a U.S. Geological Survey

NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

If you've watched a movie on your laptop or iPod and wished the screen were bigger, check out the "video glasses" that we put to the test in this story. Do

Published reports say the FCC will propose new rules designed to ensure the free flow of information and applications over the Internet.

The U.S. Justice Department has advised a federal judge that it has significant concerns about a proposed legal settlement that would give Google the digital rights to millions of

The U.S. Justice Department has advised a federal judge that it has significant concerns about a proposed legal settlement that would give Google the digital