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Charles Q. Choi Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com Wed Aug 29, 4:35 PM ET Rockets can help power robotic arms, which...

Thu Aug 30, 7:44 AM ET COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. They said they had developed a tool to run quick tests on disease...

by Robin Millard 2 hours, 30 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela was given a hero's welcome as a statue of him...

by Fanny Carrier Tue Aug 28, 9:17 AM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Kenneth Foster has never killed anyone. But the 30-year-old...

SUZAN FRASER Associated Press...

USAtoday.com President Bush's speech at the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on Independence Day in 2004, invoked the nation's highest ideals: "On this Fourth of July, we confirm our love of freedom, the freedom for people to speak their minds. ... Free thought, free expression, that's what...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has shut down barber shops offering unconventional Western hair styles amid a police crackdown on dress deemed un-Islamic, reports said. "Over the past 15 days, 13 barbers' shops that had not respected the union's directives have been closed down,"...

Peter Jenniskens, Ph.D. Meteor Astronomer, Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute 1 hour, 56 minutes ago The meteors that are about to rain down in the early...

OSLO (AFP) - A grown moose belches out methane gas equivalent to 2,100 kilograms (4,630 pounds) of carbon dioxide a year, contributing to global warming, Norwegian researchers said Wednesday. That is more than twice the amount of CO2 emitted on a round-trip flight...

ATLANTA - Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an...

Not to mention the question of which way it goes... by Tim Folger No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed...

By Estelle Shirbon Tue Aug 21, 9:53 AM ET BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Eighteen Nigerian men accused of dressing up as women during a party at a...

Dave Mosher Staff Writer SPACE.com Tue Aug 21, 7:45 AM ET Ancient philosophers thought wind, water, fire and earth were the most basic elements of the cosmos, but the study of the small has since...

WANG NAN AND NICK MULVENNEY Reuters August 17, 2007 at 5:19 AM EDT BEIJING —...

Ker Than, space.com Life almost undoubtedly began in space, and specifically in the hearts of comets, rather than on Earth, a new study claims. Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astrobiologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, and his team say their...

On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the...

Associated Press August 16, 2007 at 3:41 PM EDT GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A Canadian woman has given birth to a rare set of identical quadruplets at a Great Falls hospital. Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta...

Friday night in Columbia South Carolina, ex-law enforcement officer Ray Jackson lost his temper while trying to repair his girlfriend’s computer. After installing Windows Vista on the girlfriend’s 2 year old computer Jackson was trying to get some of her older programs to work with the new...

By David Schwartz 2 hours, 55 minutes ago SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) - It resembles a...