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By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including Washington and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday for a possible mauling from Hurricane Irene that will hit the U.S. coast this weekend. [More]

Facebook jumps into and out of the news like a Jack-in-the-box who's had too much caffeine, but this last week has seen an unusual amount of officially announced Facebook tweaks, as well as a bit of saber rattling regarding its future plans.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a polar bear at an Alaska oil field operated by BP, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the oil company said on Thursday

It doesn’t take much imagination to think of ways in which all of the data being recorded into electronic health records (EHRs) could be used study diseases and map trends. [More]

Apple has been on a decade-long roll starting with the its game-changing MP3 music player--the iPod-- in November 2001 right through its monumental, if brief, climb earlier this month to become the most valuable U.S. [More]

It’s not that the central and northern portions of the east coast of North America never see hurricanes. [More]

Say you need a diamond. You could go down to the jeweler, or you could put some carbon deep underground and let it sit for a couple billion years

Given the modern scale of Facebook-- deals with Ticketmaster , moving to a huge new campus , and everybody you know using it--it’s hard to imagine the company moving fast enough to mimic the features of the social network Google launched just two months ago. But anyone who’s spent 10 minutes inside Google+ will see quite a few similarities to what’s coming to their Facebook account

Germany will become the first country completely accessible to fuel cell vehicles in 2015, when carmaker Daimler and the Linde technology group will build 20 new hydrogen filling stations. The result will quadruple the number of public stations available and make it possible for a fuel cell vehicle to reach any location in the country

Where are all the space-art bloggers?

As science has long demonstrated, eyewitness accounts are frequently riddled with errors.

Let me start by saying that I'm admittedly an economics fan. [More]

Time slowed to a crawl as my little Nissan Sentra approached the BMW in front of me. With a pronounced crunch, one bumper smashed into another

By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene washed away homes in the Bahamas on Thursday as its battering winds and rain headed toward the U.S. eastern seaboard including densely populated New York and New England. [More]

Just in time for Hurricane Irene's arrival, a new survey from the Red Cross claims that social media is increasingly being used by Americans seeking information on natural disasters. A reliance on social media and text messages during emergencies has hidden dangers. When a major earthquake struck the east coast on Tuesday, residents were taken aback.