Brood II Cicadas Now Bugging New Yorkers

The 17-year-old sex-crazed cicadas of Brood II have been starting to stir in Staten Island.

Powerful Earthquake Strikes Russia

A magnitude 8.3 quake struck off the coast of Russia's Far East, shaking the country all the way to Moscow.

Spin Zone: Physicists Get 1st Look at Strange Quantum Magnetism

The finding may open the way to understanding superconductivity and other physical phenomena.

The Best Beaches of 2013 Announced

A well-known beach in New York snags the top spot ...

Image Gallery: The Top 10 Beaches of 2013

Hawaii and Florida of course snagged spots, but No. 1 went to East Hampton in New York.

Is There Such Thing as Healthy Fast Food?

Two recent studies looked at whether fast food is becoming any healthier. Here's what they found.

5.7-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Northern California

The quake was felt across Northern California Thursday night.

Battle-Bruised King Richard III Buried in Hasty Grave

King Richard III was buried without pomp in a sloppy grave.

Tenochtitlán: History of Aztec Capital

Modern-day Mexico City sits atop the ruins of this once-great center of the Aztec Empire.

Can a Floating Robot Save a Polluted Canal?

Robots rush in where dolphins fear to tread.

2 apps to help make traveling faster, cheaper

Chinese farmer builds own bionic hands

Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter lands in NYC

8 big kid beach toys for sand and surf

After months in space, gravity can be a real drag for returning astronauts

Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during a Google+ Hangout to talk about their experiences aboard the orbiting lab and the challenge of readapting to life with gravity."It's great to all be back together," said NASA astronaut Kevin Ford from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Ford, who returned to Earth on Mar...

Microsoft's Xbox didn't violate Google patent, says ITC

WASHINGTON — Microsoft won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility. If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being imported into the United States. The fight over the Xbox is related to a lar...

TV-related tweets may attract ads with new Twitter campaign

A new advertising method from Twitter will watch for tweets from you about certain TV shows and allow those shows' advertisers to target you. Of course, you can always ignore their tweets the way you ignored their commercials.The new way to target ads was described in a post on the Twitter advertising blog Thursday. It works like this: Suppose a user were watching a sitcom and tweeted about it. An...

Private spaceflight study aims for the moon while NASA goes deep

By Mike WallSpace.comHuman exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.While NASA has no plans to return humans to the lunar surface anytime soon, private industry is eyeing  Earth's nearest neighbor intently, said Robert Bigelow, the founder and president of Bigelow Aerospa...

Private spaceflight heads to moon as NASA goes deep

By Mike WallSpace.comHuman exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.While NASA has no plans to return humans to the lunar surface anytime soon, private industry is eyeing  Earth's nearest neighbor intently, said Bigelow Aerospace founder and President Robert Bigelow."The ...

Battle-bruised King Richard III hastily buried

By Stephanie PappasLiveScience The body of King Richard III was buried in great haste, a new study finds — perhaps because the medieval monarch's corpse had been out for three days in the summer sun.The new research is the first academic paper published on the discovery of Richard III, which was publicly announced in February 2013. A team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester found th...