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Some tech flops are famous and well documented: Microsoft Bob. The Segway scooter. The Iridium satellite cellphone

There's nothing relaxing about sitting in a doctor's examining room, being poked and prodded while you’re wearing a stiff paper gown and a pair of socks that suddenly feel super awkward. [More]

OSLO (Reuters) - Life in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones," according to the study led by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO)

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is poised to leave the solar system and reach interstellar space.

By Nicola Nosengo of Nature magazine If you are a small animal, it is useful to know whether there is anything around that might want to eat you. [More]

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Bats use tiny hairs to sense the speed and direction of air flowing over their wings.

You’re lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth.

I admit, the only time I even notice beauty pageants is when one of the contestants flubs a response and video of the embarrassing moment makes the YouTube rounds.

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major offshore Arctic oil spill could severely challenge the Coast Guard, with no available infrastructure to base rescue and clean-up operations, the Coast Guard commandant said on Monday.

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Nuclear energy has gotten a bad rap lately due to the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor. Environment editor David Biello reveals that hydropower may be a greater threat. A joint project with Detroit Public Television

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Domain name registries and marketers can rejoice now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given its blessing to a plan encouraging the use of much more creative Web addresses. On Monday ICANN's Board of Directors voted to increase the number of Internet domain-name endings--called generic top-level domains (gTLDs)--from the seemingly ubiquitous .com, .net, .org and 19 other suffixes that most Web users have come to know over the past two decades

As the U.S. and China endure record-breaking floods this spring, there is a risk that is being overlooked amidst the inundated towns, evacuations and rising waters.

HAMBURG, Germany -- Twenty-five years after Gerhard Knies conceived of powering Europe with the Sahara Desert's sun, the North Africa Solar project has grown into something considerably more than a mere mirage, but it's still less than a reality. Part of the plan is to erect a network of solar plants that generate electricity by concentrating the heat from sunlight to make electricity, generating 100 gigawatts or the equivalent of 100 large nuclear power plants