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Southern California's only herd of wild buffalo has been put on birth control. A conservation authority seeking to protect unique plant life on Santa Catalina Island, where buffalo have roamed since 14 of them were shipped out for a silent...

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers....

Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced the addition of Twitter to improve search results and most relevant tweets. The move shows the popularity of Social NetworkingTwitter and the power of information it generates for companies like Yahoo, according to the...

Todd Marshall/National Geographic Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that "galloped" on land and patrolled the broad rivers that coursed through north Africa one hundred million years ago. The skeletons of five creatures that walked with dinosaurs...

But while that event is hogging the spotlight, Google also introduced another example of how one Google project leads to another -- and eventually to more online traffic and ad revenue. The back story Google's YouTube video sharing service added...

An astronaut anticipating the birth of his daughter at any moment embarked on the first spacewalk of his career Saturday, tackling a load of maintenance work outside the International Space Station. Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik ventured out into the black...

Today T-Mobile introduced a new no contract, pre packaged, pre paid cell service plan called T-Mobile Complete. Now with these plan customers only have to choose from four handsets, which are the Samsung t239, Samsung t229, Samsung Gravity and the...

The Alliance Defense Fund brought a lawsuit against the Charter Commission and state officials Sept. 1 in federal court on behalf of the charter school arguing for the school's right to use religious texts as part of its curriculum. The...

Holiday get-togethers and traveling itself provide an ideal way for illness to spread, especially H1N1 flu, U.S. health officials said. Officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Thursday it it beginning its largest ever public...