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The terrorist attacks of September 11th drastically changed the security strategy of NYC. A massive camera network, dubbed the 'Ring of Steel' , is at the heart of this new strategy. In the first of three videos we watch it as it watches us.

Stacey Lewis might have the home-course advantage this week, but that doesn't guarantee anything against a loaded field at the LPGA's P&G NW Arkansas Championship.

Fresh rumors from a source in Korea say that a new tablet computer, built by Samsung and sporting Microsoft's upcoming tablet-centric OS Windows 8, will be revealed at MS's BUILD developer conference next week. Bill Gates championed the idea a decade ago, but it never took off. With Samsung embroiled in a patent war with Apple over its Android tablets, perhaps this time MS's persistant innovation may pay off.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a shocking and emotionally raw event that most adults, especially in the U.S., still have trouble comprehending . For children under 14, however, the events of that day are but a page of history, a modern-day Pearl Harbor. Now, with the 10th anniversary of these attacks upon us, psychologists, educators and parents are thinking again about how best to teach children about the traumatic day and its aftermath--as well as the complicated threat of terrorism .

More than half-a-billion smartphones will likely be sold in the coming year.

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine New descriptions of Australopithecus sediba fossils have added to debates about the species' place in the human lineage.

The terrorist attacks that shook the United States 10 years ago had effects that reached all the way into space. Not only did the events of Sept. 11, 2001, prompt NASA to immediately beef up its already strict security procedures, they forced military space officials to reassess their priorities regarding space security and triggered a shift in space policy .

No shortage of articles have been published about the deep distrust exhibited by most 2012 Republican presidential candidates toward specific scientific findings--notably evolution and climate change--as well as in some cases toward science itself. [More]

* New station crew will not fly until problem found, fixed * Former commander says it is time to bring in the Chinese [More]

Some people slap bugs - others slap them in the oven

Thar’s gold in them thar hills--and we may have meteorites to thank. Because it appears that a rain of meteors nearly 4 billion years ago peppered the Earth’s exterior with precious metals

New study shows nursing moms more aggressive than bottle-feeding moms and non-mothers

A three-year, government-funded effort to track the movement of greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere has yielded surprising results that could help improve the accuracy of climate models. Researchers used a specially equipped plane for a series of pole-to-pole flights to measure the concentrations of greenhouse gases and black carbon particles at different altitudes, different locations and different times of the year

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]

7 percent of Americans were illicit marijuana smokers in 2010, higher than earlier in decade, survey finds; Meth, cocaine use down