Reuters - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Sunday tried to revive a urine recycling machine needed to provide fresh water for an expanded crew scheduled to arrive next...

Verizon Wireless has apologized to President-Elect Barack Obama after several employees took a peek at his cell-phone records, but privacy advocates say what happened to Obama is just an example of what is happening to thousands of Americans. Verizon, which has 71,000 employees nationwide, said it learned last week about the access. Obama's device was a basic flip phone and did not include...

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(AP) -- Dolphins have a kick that would make Michael Phelps jealous - 212 pounds worth. How dolphins are able to swim so fast first preoccupied researchers back in 1936, when zoologist James Gray calculated the drag dolphins must overcome to swim faster than 20 miles an hour. Gray said dolphins lacked the muscles to swim so fast, and yet they did. This became known as Gray's Paradox.

Why we should not turn our backs on GM crops

AP - A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters — a sign they are doing fine after their ordeal, an official said...

A city in north-eastern Spain installs solar panels at its main cemetery in a move to generate power for homes.

Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites like YouTube and Hulu are adding feature films to their extensive libraries. At the Google-owned YouTube, there is the YouTube Screening Room, which every two weeks, adds four new films -- mostly independent works -- to the site. Hulu, the joint creation of NBC Universal and News Corp., has hundreds of films available for stream, from...

Two engineers from China who pleaded guilty to the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. are facing sentencing Friday, in a case that highlights national security threats surrounding sensitive technologies. Fei Ye, a U.S. citizen, and Ming Zhong, a permanent resident of the U.S., admitted in 2006 that they stole computer chip designs from their Silicon Valley employers and tried to...

Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse. The program run by the California State Polytechnic University agriculture professor is part of a growing effort to use hydroponics -- a method of cultivating plants in water instead of soil -- to bring farming into cities, where...

The platform game has fallen on hard times. Maybe it's that name, which came about in the 1980s when Mario was actually jumping on moving platforms in "Super Mario Bros." But the genre needs a catchier title, like "running-jumping-bouncing-super-fun-action-adventure." There has to be a Japanese word that encompasses all that. Platform games used to represent a huge chunk of the video-game...

In a 2008 Super Bowl ad, NFL golden boy Tom Brady asked nearly 100 million viewers to text "FIT" to donate $5 to the United Way. About 25,000 people responded, raising $10,000. Now imagine if President-elect Barack Obama had been able to ask the 100,000 people who showed up at his rally in St. Louis in October to give $5 or $10 with a simple text. It's another technology political campaigns are...

AP - Cold, wintry weather was sweeping across the Midwest and Ohio River Valley early Monday, while much of the West and Plains enjoyed clear...

This is a story about a man and his suit. His $12 million suit - the most complex wardrobe known to man. David Wolf was 8 years old when he first saw someone decked out in a spacesuit. That's when astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space.

The criminal trial of accused cyber-bully Lori Drew is in limbo as a federal judge considers whether to dismiss the case during the trial.

Some jittery people out there - you can spot them gnashing their teeth, shaking like Jell-O and sweating profusely - have grounds to suspect that the decaf coffee they are drinking is secretly laced with that demon caffeine.

With global warming melting the Arctic's eons-old ice at an alarming rate, shipping and oil companies are looking ahead at how to exploit the new open waters.

A former Tokyo metropolitan government official and waterworks expert who is determined to prevent water wastage has gone to Tanzania to help locals better utilize the vital resource.

Products marketed for infants or billed as "microwave safe" release toxic doses of the chemical bisphenol A when heated, an analysis by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found.

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry of Japan last week held a meeting to explain details of a test run of its carbon credit trading scheme, for which the government began accepting applications from companies last month.

Bacteria that can cause serious heart disease in humans are being spread by rat fleas, sparking concern that the infections could become a bigger problem in humans. Research published in the December issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology suggests that brown rats, the biggest and most common rats in Europe, may now be carrying the bacteria.

Bacteria that cause stomach ulcers and cancer could also be giving us bad breath, according to research published in the December issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology. For the first time, scientists have found Helicobacter pylori living in the mouths of people who are not showing signs of stomach disease.

A new study found that adolescents were at the greatest risk of smoking when their parents began smoking at an early age and the parents' smoking quickly reached high levels and persisted over time.

At the 61st Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics this week, a team of researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Maryland is reporting research that may soon give avid golfers another way to improve their game.