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Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the... more

A Silicon Valley city where Facebook has opened its new headquarters voted Tuesday to support an environmental impact report and development agreement for a project that will allow the social... more

Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, warned Tuesday of an operating loss and layoffs to come as the company struggles to regain market share lost to Apple's... more

BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion has hired a team of bankers to help it weigh its options as its business erodes in the face of an exodus to the iPhone and Android smartphones.RIM issued a dire... more

Google will try to win more converts to a computer operating system revolving around its popular Chrome Web browser with a new wave of lightweight laptops built by Samsung Electronics.Tuesday's... more

No Doubt's attorneys can argue to a jury that the band was misled by gaming giant Activision Publishing Inc. about how its likeness would be used in the video game "Band Hero," a judge ruled... more

A newly discovered small asteroid has harmlessly zipped close to Earth _ just as scientists expected.The 16-foot-long space rock, discovered on Memorial Day, passed by early Tuesday at a distance... more

The head of the National Weather Service has suddenly retired and the agency is seeking an emergency $35.6 million from Congress because of allegations of financial mismanagement and money... more

Facebook Inc. began trading publicly this month following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The initial public offering of stock priced at $38, at the top of a projected... more

Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time since its much-awaited public debut this month.The stock fell $3.07, or 9.6 percent, to close at $28.84 on Tuesday. That's down 24 percent... more

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.It's not science fiction. Scientists and doctors are using the creeping metallic... more

Dutch lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday urging the government not to sign a controversial international treaty aimed at reining in online piracy.The motion was another setback for the... more

Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday said it will shut down the Nextel network as early as June 30 next year, cutting off service for its characteristic walkie-talkie-like Nextel phones.Sprint had... more

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to... more

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.It's not science fiction. Scientists and doctors are using the creeping metallic... more

Some of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs are known for their humble beginnings. Internet startup founder Eric Simons is following that tradition.Simons, 20, spent two months living... more

Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech... more

Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it is losing another senior executive as its chief legal officer is retiring from the company after 12 years.RIM said that... more

Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away _ the first... more

Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his... more

They've been away, but now they are _ hopefully _buzzing back to their rightful place in the bucolic British countryside.Around 50 short-haired bees were released into an English nature reserve... more

(Reuters) - SAP AG <SAPG.DE> said it would buy software and information technology services company Ariba Inc <ARBA.O> for about $4.5 billion in cash. The $45 per share offer... more

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon cargo ship on Friday, the first privately... more

Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself.Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist... more

Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the first one inside the... more