North America Science & Technology News

The U.N.'s top climate official has given an upbeat assessment on the prospects of reaching a global deal at the climate summit which opens in Copenhagen on Monday. Suspicions are growing that Russian security services were behind the leaking of...

The world's first commercial passenger spaceship, funded by Virgin boss Richard Branson, is due to be unveiled. SpaceShipTwo, to be put on show in America's Mojave Desert, is a joint effort between Sir Richard and famed aviation designer Burt Rutan,...

Researchers have found a strand of feline DNA in the AIDS virus, leading them to believe that the virus was incubated in a tiger thousands or millions of years ago. They speculate that the tiger may have bitten a monkey,...

I was reading an article in the National Geographic News and saw a list of the top 9 amazing discoveries of the year 2009. I am sharing it with you guys. Enjoy. 1. The discovery of a 47-million-year-old, that is...

The newest shrimp species in the world is Lebbeus clarehanna, courtesy of a man who knows nothing about being small—retired NBA star Luc Longley. The 7-foot Australian bought the rights to name the newly discovered species on eBay for $2,900...

A local man is likely to go to prison for years after he says he accidentally downloaded child pornography onto his computer. Mathew White downloads a porn in Limewire and he is now facing 20 years of Prison time. See...

How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have developed using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. By measuring a peak in the temperature...

Unfortunately, people who never never had the chance to see what life was like before the internet don’t realize just how much things have changed. Thirty years ago computers were starting to “come along”, but the internet was still in...

The National Weather Service says that four inches of snow northeast of Brookhaven Mississippi, three inches from Smithdale La to Fort Polk La and some snow in Texas. Families is snow areas got enough snpw to make snowmen in their...