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The California Supreme Court appeared to be searching for a middle ground Tuesday in a dispute over whether thousands of formerly imprisoned sex offenders must live at least 2,000 feet from parks and schools, a voter-approved restriction that would exclude...

A federal plan to bring renewable energy retrofits within the reach of middle-class homes, announced Monday by Vice President Joe Biden, gave a jolt to local pilot programs with the same goal. The Recovery Through Retrofit report that Biden unveiled...

Male hummingbirds swooping in an effort to impress females, achieve speeds "faster than jets", according to a study. A US researcher has captured the bird's dives with super-fast cameras. He lured them into their impressive displays using stuffed models of...

A new study conducted over a 50 year period in the coniferous forests of the American West, reports that forest trees are dying at a rate twice as fast as they were 17 years ago. The scientists are blaming this...

Great polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla influenced the course of human events because they could take their own innovative ideas and, through the scientific and technological means available at the time, turn them into tangible...

What is the worst thing about the Bush-Cheney years? That one’s easy: “They aren't over yet.” Switch the tense from present to past, however, and a lot of very good answers present themselves. What was the worst thing about the...

Punditty doesn’t know if it has anything to do with the new, highly touted Google Chrome browser or not, but the search box on his antiquated version is just bubbling with suggested searches. It never used to do this. Type...

Criminals beware: Wiping your prints off spent shell casings may no longer be enough to outwit the police. Reuters is reporting that a breakthrough in obtaining prints has led to the cracking of a 10-year-old murder case in Great Britain....

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from a list generated by the National Hurricane Center. The list below is provided by the National Weather Service. Twenty-one names are assigned to each year. If more hurricanes than names occur...

The practice of assigning hurricanes proper names began in the early 20th century, when an Australian forecaster began designating tropical cyclones with the names of political figures he disliked. Punditty gleaned this fascinating information by way of the Atlantic Oceanographic...