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• Mars is viewed, by Galileo, through a telescope for the first time in 1609.

Fans of Mafia supremos Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano have been hounded off of Facebook after Italy's anti-Mafia movement spurred thousands of people to infiltrate their pages.

The crux of the continuing debate about Pluto’s status is that there is still not a satisfying definition of planet....

AFP - President George W. Bush told Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek he supported EU diplomatic efforts to ensure a resumption of Russian natural gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine, the White House said...

In the coming era of consumer genetics, your DNA will have much to tell you about the biological bases of your health, your physique and even your personality. But will this knowledge really amount to self-knowledge?...

LiveScience.com - About 14 percent of U.S. adults won't be reading this article. Well, okay, most people won't read it, given all the words that are published these days to help us understand and navigate the increasingly complex world.

The accident in Kingston, Tenn., has shown that "clean coal" technology is still a figment of industry advertisers' imagination...

(AP) -- The Pentagon on Thursday sought to assure troops that it takes post-traumatic stress seriously despite the recent decision not to award the Purple Heart to those with the disorder.

(AP) -- Run for your lives ... Yellowstone's going to explode!

(AP) -- By the tens of thousands, Texas student-athletes have been pulled out of class to urinate in a cup for the nation's largest high school steroids testing program.

AP - Run for your lives ... Yellowstone's going to...

AP - As diners sit down to lunches of whale meat in Tokyo and elsewhere across the nation, Japan's whaling fleet is on its annual hunt in the Antarctic, drawing protests from environmental groups, international governments and whale-lovers worldwide. So why does Tokyo persist?

AP - Active weather was to move into the eastern third of the country on Saturday. Heavy snow was forecast for the Ohio Valley and southern Great Lakes. Rain and some freezing rain were also likely through the Southeast and into the Tennessee Valley. Snow was to develop through New England. Various Winter Storm Warnings were in effect for this storm from the Ohio Valley through southern New...

Worker ants in colonies with a queen are physically attacked by their peers if they try to reproduce, a study says.

The disgraced former boss of top outsourcing firm Satyam was in police custody Saturday and due to appear in court, days after he owned up to a one billion dollar fraud that has rocked corporate India.

Consumer electronics manufacturers are making greener products than a year ago but more progress needs to be made before they can claim a truly environmentally friendly product, Greenpeace said Friday.

Voodoo computers have long been to standard home machines what beefed-up muscle cars are to production-line autos and bore price tags reflecting their elite status.

An elderly Chinese woman wearing a headset concentrates intensely on a small foam ball and it begins to rise slowly into the air.

Microsoft's mighty servers were overwhelmed Friday as computer users worldwide rushed to download a free test version of a Windows 7 operating system being groomed to succeed Vista.

NVIDIA wants zombies to reach right out of videogames and virtually grab players by the throats.

(AP) -- Federal officials have not yet identified the cause of a salmonella outbreak striking almost 400 people in 42 states, but state officials in Minnesota said Friday they believe peanut butter may be involved. On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Health said preliminary laboratory testing found salmonella bacteria in a 5-pound container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter. The tests...