
Social Climber: Google Challenges Facebook for Social Networking Supremacy--Again
Google throws its hat into the social-networking ring, this time with a smoother user interface and a focus on mobile gadgets
Google throws its hat into the social-networking ring, this time with a smoother user interface and a focus on mobile gadgets
Planes lifting off through a specific kind of cloud cover can inadvertently increase snowfall below
A gargantuan black hole has been spotted voraciously devouring material just 770 million years after the big bang
Service members returning from combat present a long-term treatment challenge
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent comment that U.S. and NATO-led forces use weapons with "nuclear components" may be a reference to depleted-uranium munitions, whose health impact is still being studied...
Three months after its meltdown, the stricken nuclear power plant continues to struggle to cool its nuclear fuel--and cope with growing amounts of radioactive cooling water
The Cassini spacecraft plunged through watery plumes shooting out of Enceladus and got a taste of what is inside the icy moon
Brain scans hint excessive time online is tied to stark physical changes in the brain
By one billion years after the big bang, galaxies and their resident black holes were already growing in tandem
Semantic search technology aimed at a positive slant advances with a system that can spot optimism in news articles
For decades new, reliable contraceptives for men have seemed imminent. Why isn't there one available yet?
Countries are beginning to develop cyberwarfare policies to protect their national interests, but defending oneself in the borderless Internet will prove problematic
A single mammalian cell expressing a mutant green fluorescent protein is the first living object to be used as a laser
Sony, Google, RSA and now Citigroup are just some of the prominent victims of cyber attacks as defenses at large organizations prove porous and attackers elude detection
People do not always respond kindly to crying, and Rep. Anthony Weiner's tearful confession may be one of those occasions
Researchers were stunned to find an 18th-century ship that had been unearthed by construction workers at the World Trade Center where the Twin Towers once stood. With great care they followed clues in the well-preserved wood to trace the craft's history to the era of the American Revolution...
Several new studies highlight the complexity of autism's genetic roots, revealing why it strikes boys more than girls and offering clues for possible new treatments
A rare, superluminous kind of stellar explosion does not fit into the usual supernova categories
A 24-hour evaluation will determine whether millions of people worldwide can connect to the new 128-digit Internet protocol address system
The wandering orbit of Jupiter at the dawn of the solar system may have had wide-ranging effects
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