LiveScience.com - A toothy, big-boned dinosaur uncovered in Utah is helping scientists recreate what ancient North America looked like 75 million years ago.

Appearing at a London Apple store for the UK launch of the iPod, Steve Jobs was asked about the rash of solutions for "unlocking" the iPhone, software and procedures that allow customers to use the device with a carrier other than AT&T. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," he said. "We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it's our job to stop them breaking in." Jobs brought down the...

Real-life Nobel Prize winners for science gather in Boston to celebrate the goofy side of science at the annual Ig Nobel ceremony.

AP - The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit.

The India's smallest land vertebrate, a 10-millimeter frog, has been discovered in a mountain range in Western India. Indian land vertebrates (all animals with backbone except fishes), comprises of 2,400 species including 218 frog species.

When it comes to preventing cancer, women believe they're doing more than they actually are. Perhaps most surprising, women are more afraid of getting Alzheimer's disease than cancer, even though cancer causes nearly ten times more deaths per year.

A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt. An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original "Star Trek" series and movies. "I am now a heavenly body," Takei, 70, said Tuesday, laughing. "I found out about...

With only two patients left in an isolation ward Tuesday, doctors are hopeful an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo may soon be contained. But because people can carry Ebola for up to three weeks before getting sick, experts say it's too soon to consider the outbreak over. "We are close to controlling the Ebola outbreak," Dr. Michel Van Herp, an epidemiologist with Medecins Sans...

American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work. No one died, and regulators said the public was never at risk during these incidents. But the documented cases reflect poorly on procedures and oversight at high-security labs, some of which work...

President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance. It was only the fourth veto of Bush's presidency, and one that some Republicans feared could carry steep risks for their party in next year's elections. The Senate approved the bill with enough votes to override the veto, but the...

Parts of Australia could be 9 degrees Fahrenheit hotter and 80 percent drier by 2070 if global greenhouse gas emissions are not radically reduced, government data said Tuesday. The report by the Bureau of Meteorology and the government's main research body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, predicts lower rainfall, longer droughts and more searing hot days for...

Asteroid 7307 Takei is named for the actor best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu.

SPACE.com - Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away.

The Recording Industry Association of America is having its day in a Minnesota court against a mom accused of digital copyright violations. The nation's first-of-its-kind case could prove to be a deterrent for digital piracy -- if the RIAA wins. The precedent-setting case is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing piracy. The RIAA is asking for as much as $3.9 million dollars, plus...

Microsoft is singing a new Zune tune. On Tuesday, the technology giant took the wraps off what it described as "the next generation" of its media player, software, and online store, for release in November. The open question is whether this next generation will be able to jumpstart the Zune line to compete more effectively with the current generation of Apple's iPods. The new Zunes -- an 80-GB...

"The photo album of the Zoological Society of London, which has been running London Zoo for almost 180 years, will become accessible online for the first time today. Photographs of the historic zoo dating from the 19th century through to astonishing images of the present day can be viewed at www.zsl.org/printstore, bringing the Zoo’s history to life through the web."

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Just watched "Evan Almighty"? Did its environmental message make you want to buy ecologically sound toilet paper? Well, now you can get instant gratification -- if you watched the movie on an HD DVD player and are willing to give the remote a workout. The HD DVD of "Evan Almighty" will be the first disc to include an online shopping feature, Universal Studios announced Wednesday....

EBay Inc. said Tuesday it is sending notices to sellers hawking recalled items, warning that they could be kicked off the Web site and may have to forfeit their fees. The San Jose-based company, which listed 559 million items worth $14.46 billion (EU10.21 billion) last quarter, is also asking shoppers to be extra diligent about e-mailing or talking directly to sellers, and it's providing...

Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off its second-generation Zune digital media players late Tuesday, showing three models that bring the software maker's offerings more in line with Apple's market-leading iPod. One model -- available in black -- has an 80-gigabyte hard drive and a 3.2-inch screen. It's slimmer than last year's Zune, which had a 30 GB hard drive and a smaller screen. Microsoft...

Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market. The changes, to be unveiled Wednesday, mark Google's first attempt to capitalize on the technology that it picked up in its recently completed $625...

Microsoft Corp. kept its options open Tuesday on whether it will appeal a landmark antitrust ruling and record $613 million fine imposed by European competition authorities that an EU court upheld last month. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, visiting France to promote innovation, declined to say whether the software maker would contest the ruling to its last level, the European Court of...

Swedish scientists say that Tamiflu -- the frontline weapon in any bird-flu pandemic -- cannot be broken down by sewage systems and this could help the virus mutate dangerously into a drug-resistant strain.

(AP) -- Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.