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CMS detectors, both of which were on the lookout for collisions...Fabiola Gianotti. "The events so far mark the start of the second half of this incredible voyage of discovery of the secrets of nature," said CMS spokesperson Tejinder Virdee from...

Apple's iPhone has attracted half of the world's smartphone traffic share and 55 percent in the US after it hit the market 28 months ago, mobile advertising network AdMob said on Monday in its October report. The San Mateo, Calif.-based...

U.S. astronauts Randolph Bresnik and Robert Satcher Jr. completed a five hour, 42 minute spacewalk at 2:06 p.m. EST (1906 GMT) on Monday, which is the third and final spacewalk for space shuttle Atlantis's STS-129 mission, NASA said. During the...

Rupert Murdoch's talks with Microsoft about removing his newspapers' stories from Google , and giving index rights to Bing instead could be a pivotal moment in internet economics, writes John Gapper . He believes that Murdoch is willing to sacrifice...

Patent holding company Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday said it's suing Motorola Inc. and the maker of BlackBerry smartphones for allegedly violating its patent for visual voicemail. Klausner said Motorola uses visual voicemail on its "Cliq" cell phones.

Atlantis is scheduled to begin its return journey to Earth on Wednesday, with touchdown at Cape Canaveral expected on Saturday. The Atlantis brought thousands of kilogrammes of extra supplies to the ISS as the shuttle programme enters its expected final...

Unsurprisingly, iPhone sales are booming across Europe as the end of exclusivity arrangements rev up the demand for Apple mobile phones. Broadpoint AmTech analyst predicts Apple will finally do the same in the US and will add Verizon as a...

The existence of the so-called exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- was announced at the European Southern Observatory/Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto conference in Porto, Portugal, according to a statement issued by the observatory. The announcement was...

It is usual for fathers to pace up and down the corridors of the hospital while the mother is in labour – the father chews his fingernails as he waits anxiously to hear the good news. Not so astronauts. Randy...

More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs distributed by a Vancouver-area manufacturer have been recalled after they were linked to the suffocation of at least four children in the United States. The voluntary recall of 1.2 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs...