A strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck close to New Zealand's second-largest city of Christchurch early Saturday local time, wreaking havoc on buildings, roads and

Invisible shrimp could very well be living in every drop of water you drink -- but that's OK, they're nothing to worry about.

Target has begun selling gift cards for Facebook credits, letting consumers spend real money on fake money to buy gear in online apps and games such as Farmville. 

Apple fans Web-wide tuned in to an annual music-themed event Wednesday, where Steve Jobs unveiled an updated streaming TV device, funky new iPods -- and a social network that's

IBM unveiled details Wednesday about its new advanced chips that the company says can process information at record-breaking speeds.

Nothing generates more rumors and speculation in the tech world than the anticipation of an Apple press conference. So tomorrow's annual Apple event in San Francisco is whipping

Acknowledging flaws in its reports and growing public skepticism toward the theory of man-made global warming, the United Nations hire an independent review panel in March to

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region, killing nearly 2,000 and displacing more than 250,000 others from Louisiana to Florida. This week, in a

WASHINGTON — NASA is reassuring commercial space firms that it will be a supportive customer for privately built space taxis even as it cautions that Congress could stymie efforts

After a months-long battle between the world's most powerful Internet company and the world's most populous country, Google takes its site off the mainland in an effort to skirt

Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest. Indeed, carnivorous behavior may be far more widespread in plants than commonly thought — if we

This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency

Virgin Galactic readies for Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo — the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm's

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog

Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of