(9/8/2010) Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the "Old Farmer's Almanac."  

(9/8/2010) Tractor beams, energy rays that can move objects, are a science fiction mainstay. But now they are becoming a reality -- at least for moving very tiny objects.  

(9/8/2010) National organizations are demanding that Craigslist remove its adult services section from its websites outside the U.S. after the company stopped posting the section on its U.S. site.  

(9/8/2010) NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.  

(9/7/2010) For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.  

(9/7/2010) It's Apple versus Google in a growing battle for the living room -- and consumers could reap all the benefits.   

(9/7/2010) Dissent and infighting may be the new order of business at WikiLeaks, as a rape investigation into the whistle-blowing website's outspoken frontman Julian Assange threatens to tear the site apart.  

(9/7/2010) As they head off to school, a growing number of students are being carefully tracked -- not only their classroom grades, but also their precise locations.   

(9/7/2010) The U.K.'s Royal Mail has released the worlds first intelligent stamps. Adding a high-tech twist to traditional snail mail, the new stamps are designed to interact with smartphones using a custom application, linking them to special online content.   

(9/7/2010) Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.  

(9/7/2010) An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.  

(9/7/2010) A galactic "supervolcano" in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting, blasting gas outwards. The cosmic volcano driven by a giant black hole in M87's center is preventing hundreds of millions of new stars from forming.   

(9/6/2010) Alien life may already exist on Earth -- us.   

(9/6/2010) As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still many cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Here's the top 10.  By Joe Rao, Space.com.  

(9/4/2010) Scientists say they've found a new species of turtle in the Pearl River, and they've named it, aptly enough, the Pearl map turtle.  

(9/4/2010) Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.  

(9/3/2010) 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 infrastructure.  

(9/3/2010) NASA is developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into the sun's atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before.  

(9/3/2010) Wolf spiders and carnivorous plants called sundews may compete with each other for food in the wild, a new study finds.  

(9/3/2010) Samsung's first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks -- joining the Dell Streak and a slew of Google-powered pads, all trying to turn up the heat on the Apple iPad.