Bavarian officials have found funds to build a magnetic levitation train with the backing of industrial groups, but more than half the region's residents oppose the futuristic and already fatal project.

Shore crabs catch their food at food-rich spots and subsequently eat it elsewhere. With this takeaway strategy the crabs maximize their food uptake and keep competing crabs at a distance, says Dutch researcher Isabel Smallegange.

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) have identified the biochemical mechanism behind the adhesive protein that give rise to particularly serious malaria in children. The knowledge of how the malaria parasite makes blood vessels become sticky paves the way for a future vaccine for the disease, which...

Microsoft is mulling an investment of up to 5.0 percent in the social networking site Facebook, a move that could set the stage for confrontation with rival Google, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Researchers at UC San Diego and UC Irvine have found evidence that supports the theory that reproductive competition during the evolution of primate species has occurred at the level of sperm cell motility.

Reef-smothering algae, meet your foe: the Super Sucker.

For two weeks in November, One Laptop Per Child will sell its vaunted XO laptops to North American consumers. Under the organization's "Give One, Get One" program, consumers can buy two XOs at a time -- one to keep and one to be donated to a child in the developing world -- but only from November 12 to November 26. The organization is promising delivery by Christmas. While the opportunity might...

What killed the woolly mammoths? Scientists now suggests that a comet or meteorite exploded over the planet roughly 12,900 years ago, causing the abrupt climate changes that led to the extinction of the woolly mammoth and other giant prehistoric beasts.

Sci-fi fear becomes reality as salmonella bacteria sent up aboard space shuttle come back much deadlier to mice.

Each is working on mapping the moon and determining what resources it may hold.

Reuters - U.S. consumers are expected to pay record prices for heating oil, electricity and propane to warm their homes this winter, and low-income families will need government help to cover those bills, government energy officials said on...

Facebook could be likened to the prom queen of the social-networking community these days. Its suitors are Microsoft and Google, among others. Indeed, companies are standing in line, hoping for the chance to invest in the popular site. According to news reports, Microsoft and Google are both interested in snagging a stake in the company. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft might...

The only copy of the Magna Carta in the United States is about to go on sale. The document laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law.

The epidemic of frog deformities is caused, at least in part, by agricultural waste.

On Monday, Apple warned iPhone owners to hack at their own risk, making it undoubtedly clear that unlocking programs used to connect the iPhone to nonsanctioned wireless carriers could cause irreparable damage. That "damage" could make the device inoperable when the Apple software updates are released. Apple said iPhone customers that decide to make unauthorized modifications to the device's...

Paying close attention to how a canary learns a new song has helped scientists open a new avenue of research against Huntington`s disease - a fatal disorder for which there is currently no cure or even a treatment to slow the disease.

An orangutan at a wildlife sanctuary fought with a French tourist for her backpack, leaving her bruised and scratched, an official said Tuesday.

Master Chief, the Covenant, and the rest of Halo 3 landed in stores last night -- and the jury of fans are delivering a hugely positive verdict. Before 10,000 stores opened at midnight to sell the final game in the Halo trilogy, Microsoft reported that 1.5 million copies had already been sold in preorders. Outside some stores, fans lined up, some in costumed homage to Master Chief and other...

Apple put out a consumer warning Monday: Buy an "unlocked" iPhone at your own peril. In the USA, most cell phones are sold "locked," meaning a phone is tied to the carrier that supplied it. Apple's combination iPod, cell phone and Internet device works exclusively with AT&T. Some early buyers have complained about AT&T's data network; others, about spotty cell coverage. On the other hand, Apple...

Can "Halo" hero Master Chief blast his way past "Spider-Man 3" too? We'll soon find out as the third installment in the "Halo" video game franchise debuts Tuesday for the Xbox 360 console. Microsoft Corp. won't divulge exact sales predictions for "Halo 3" (and won't specify just how many tens of millions they poured into developing it) but seems confident of outdoing the "Spider-Man 3" movie,...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Facebook after the company did not respond to "many" complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as teenagers on the social-networking site. Investigators set up profiles as 12- to 14-year-olds, and the decoys were quickly contacted by other users seeking sex, Cuomo said. On several occasions, the Palo...

A top homeland security lawmaker has called for an investigation into possible cyber attacks on computer systems at the Homeland Security Department. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said he believes Unisys Corp -- the company that holds the $1.7 billion contract to build parts of the Homeland Security Department's computer network -- is at fault for these network break-ins. Thompson chairs the...

SPACE.com - The asteroid belt's largest bodies have drifted virtually alone since their creation about 4.5 billion years ago, but each will soon receive a visit from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. 

Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. Now, a new study has shown that the tiniest passengers flown in space -- microbes -- can be equally affected by spaceflight, making them into more infectious pathogens. Compared to bacteria that remained on earth, the space-traveling Salmonella had changed expression of 167...