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Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early on Sunday to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born. Bresnik's wife, Rebecca, gave birth to Abigail Mae Bresnik just after midnight. At the time, Bresnik was in orbit 220...

In one case, they even discussed blacklisting and boycotting one climate journal if it ever dared to publish a peer reviewed paper from a skeptical scientist again...Cheers Phil” And this: “This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for...

Officials, who rely on tax revenue from hotels, retail sales and people eating out to help fund city services, hope that grooming the well-known shopping district in time for the start of the holiday shopping season will help attract skittish...

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...

The machine, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid recreate conditions after the Big Bang, was launched with great fanfare last year. But, just nine days after the launch, it suffered a spectacular failure from...

Except that it was First Lutheran Church, known for ministry emphasizing an end to hunger and homelessness in Guilford County, wrestling to get its money back from Wall Street.   Needing to safely set aside $500,000 in construction seed money...

Green500 list, which provides a global ranking of energy-efficient supercomputers. For a long time, in the world of supercomputers, performance was solely associated with speed. This notion led to the development of computers that use enormous amounts of energy.

Google Chrome OS has buzz now, but a number of stars will have to align for many folks to migrate to it. 11.20.09 Will you be using Chrome OS a year from now? At the Web-based operating system’s coming-out party...

Apple's iPhone will go on sale in South Korea this week, offered by the country's No...South Korea, a market for 47 million mobile users, is home turf for the world's No. Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, which are stepping up...