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With images of the Japan earthquake and tsunami fresh in the minds of coastal dwellers everywhere, tsunami science is getting a fresh infusion of interest, and cash, in the U.S. From giant wave basins in Oregon to current-speed detectors in California, the U.S. is expanding its tsunami research, especially in the Pacific Northwest states that researchers say face grave risk of big-wave destruction

Think you've honed your 4H chops with hours of online agriculture? You can now control a real British farm to see how you do. God save the cows

Is it possible that the traditional office worker has the most dangerous job in America? Consider the following studies that found sitting for extended periods is hazardous to your health. In 2007, Dr

"Osama Bin Laden" was tops in Google search yesterday. But not in search advertising, where not a single seller stepped into the void. Web 2.0 was alive and popping on Monday in the wake of the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed

Overseas roaming charges tend to add up during international travel. EZ Roam, a new cell-phone service available in 170 countries, has an alternative.

One morning last January, a franchisee of Nurse Next Door in Edmonton, Alberta, sent an e-mail to company headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. John DeHart, Nurse Next Door's co-founder and co-CEO, clicked on a link in the message, which led to the website of Eldercare, a competing company based in Toronto

From the fascinating-yet-creepy files, a British firm has unveiled a backpack-mounted radar that allows users to see through walls.

The casual games space is heating up--and two major acquisitions this week point the way forward. Zynga is poised to go global on a greater scale. This week it announced it had acquired Wonderland Software, a British studio behind a popular mobile game called GodFinger

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) -Sergio Garcia missed the cut in his first major as a pro, at Carnoustie in 1999 for the British Open.

Entrepreneur and adventure-seeker Sir Richard Branson wants to import endangered lemurs to one of his two private islands in the British Virgin Islands (B.V.I.), giving them a safe haven from the political unrest and habitat destruction on their native Madagasca r. But scientists and conservationists aren't exactly hopping with pleasure over the plan.

The Royal St. George's course will be 100 yards longer for this year's British Open, with par being reduced from 71 to 70.

Forty-eight hours into an attempt to muscle a gusher of oil back into the deep-sea well from which it spewed, the flow of petroleum and gas refused to slow. Screen after screen in a special room at BP's headquarters in Houston showed the oil gushing undiminished, silently witnessed underwater by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)

Intel confirmed this week that it's next generation of chipsets (Ivy Bridge) will also support the next generation of USB (Version 3.0). And all of it will be coming soon to a device near you as early as next year.

J.J. Henry and former British Open champion Stewart Cink are atop the Texas Open leaderboard after shooting 5-under 67s, but the spotlight belonged to Kevin Na during a historic meltdown on No

1. When former Time magazine editor Walter Isaacson began appearing a Apple events, everyone knew he was working on a book. Over the weekend it was officially revealed that his authorized biography of Steve Jobs, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, will be published in early 2012.