From The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular project: figuring out where...

From The Associated Press   MINNEAPOLIS – The utility leading an effort to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in South Dakota pulled out of the project Friday, citing the economic downturn...

From The Associated Press NEW YORK - Some of the world's most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online. IBM Corp.,...

From The Associated Press   LONDON – Like so many great discoveries, it was an accident. British scientist Alec Jeffreys realized 25 years ago Thursday that individuals have "DNA fingerprints,"...

From Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON – A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows. NASA on Wednesday unveiled the...

From The Associated Press TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories – Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would...

From The Associated Press BOSTON – Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod — the first time the fearsome fish have ever been...

From The Associated Press   LAS VEGAS – Museums and high-rolling natural history buffs will get a crack at buying a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex next month at a Las Vegas Strip auction. Experts...

From The Associated Press   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A piece of orbiting junk was expected to pass near the international space station Friday, but NASA said it would stay a safe distance away from...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) - Gamers competing against rivals around the globe in online multiplayer games have a new force protecting them -- teams of virtual detectives. While some companies cause...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Who says you can't buy friends? An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users. Advertising,...

From The Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. - EBay Inc. is trading control of the online telecommunications service Skype for about $2 billion, reversing a 2005 acquisition that many analysts considered...

From The Associated Press NEW YORK – Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social...

From The Associated Press AMSTERDAM – It's not green cheese, but it might as well be. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back...