The huge earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile belongs to an "elite class" of mega earthquakes," experts said, and is similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean

Here is a list of earthquakes in recorded history that registered at least magnitude 8.6.

It used to be easy to hide in plain sight on the Internet. Not anymore. Increasingly, the far-flung threads of your online existence can be woven together by a

Parents all across the country will be happy to hear this. Ford has come up with a way to control how teens drive. It's called "my key" and it puts the parents

At first glance, you'd think the name of a new website pretty much sums it up. But the guys behind PleaseRobMe.com say their creation is meant as a piece of

Geologists from Southern California are flying aircraft back and forth across the network of faults in Haiti to look for signs that the recent big quake may

The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without

International journalists in China said Monday that their Google e-mail accounts have been hacked in attacks similar to the ones against human rights activists

Here's a recession bargain: the space shuttle. NASA has slashed the price of these 1970s era spaceships from $42 million to $28.8 million apiece.

The scope of the destruction in Haiti is evident from new satellite images incorporated into the popular Google Maps site and Google Earth program.

Irvine schools are going solar and it won't cost them a dime... sort of. They'll have the system installed and pay for solar energy used at a cost that's

A Hollywood stunt man says he's invented a new way to help fight brush fires... a specially-designed tanker truck that blasts water and retardant ahead of

Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest. Indeed, carnivorous behavior may be far more widespread in plants than commonly thought — if we

This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the

Virgin Galactic readies for Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo — the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm's suborbital fleet.

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger

Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of

Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a

65 million years after they ruled the planet, dinosaurs are back

You’ve bought the big gift, the clothing gift, and maybe even the cute gift. But something’s missing from the pile of presents. Fret not, there’s still time to buy a stocking

Testing is underway at USC for a new earthquake forecasting method that aims to predict the approximate size and location of future quakes, the university announced today.

NASA is still perplexed over the parachute failure that damaged its new Ares I-X test rocket during its October test launch, but otherwise the debut flight went well, mission

There's nothing like a 'best of the year' list for stirring up controversy. This time one of the most prolific list makers in publishing has inadvertently kicked up an academic

An ancient plaster wall painting and banquet vase that were stolen from Italy and turned up in New York are headed back to their home country.

A former school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away that outpost's two-man crew did not have to strap into their

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

NASA scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars

Getting a bargain on Cyber Monday seems compelling. But with online shopping comes the risk of cyberscams

On Black Friday, retailers move so much product that their balance sheets switch from red to black. On Cyber Monday, online stores join in the cost cutting

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven landed safely in Florida Friday morning after an 11-day flight to resupply the International Space Station.

Hundreds of thousands of electronic messages from 9/11 – including panicked exchanges from the Pentagon and the NYPD – were released today by a nonprofit activist group

The shuttle and its crew of seven are aiming for a Friday morning landing at NASA's Florida spaceport. Good weather is forecast.

From countless depictions of "Dracula" to recent movies like "Twilight" and "New Moon," the vampire has been a staple in film. But is there a scientific basis for the folklore? Is

If you're girding up to venture into the wilds of Mall Country in search of gadget bargains on Black Friday, here are some tips to keep in mind.

In the chronicles of UFO oddness, there's been a long-standing oddity — some say folklore, others deem it reality. This saga, now over four decades old, centers on a reported

The adventurer known as the 'jetman' has crashed into the sea on what was supposed to be a record setting journey.

Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.

A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said

Two NASA astronauts completed their mission's third and last spacewalk Monday

An Australian man was almost drowned by a kangaroo after he dived into his farm dam to save his pet dog.

After being held up by a suit problem, astronauts wrapped up the third and final spacewalk of space shuttle Atlantis' mission, again ahead of schedule

The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book

Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik announced the birth of his daughter Abigail on Sunday morning, after being notified privately of the good news.

A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave says she lost her benefits because of photos on Facebook and she's fighting to get them reinstated.

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 a year ago.

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 scientists need to "hide the

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 gear.

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 the state's store

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 decision and had

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, depicted as cartoon

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

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 solve a multiple

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

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 fiction novels.

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 how to find a great

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