Gangs are turning to modern communication methods like Twitter, but unbeknownst to them, tweeting members may actually be singing like birds to attentive

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other

An earthquake conference in Arkansas this week will be focusing on modern scientific studies of the catastrophic phenomenon. Also on the agenda will be a

The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without

What caused the Haiti earthquake, and why was it so devastating? Here are the answers from LiveScience Senior Writer Andrea Thompson and a video interview with

Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest. Indeed, carnivorous behavior may be far more widespread in plants than commonly thought — if we

This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the

Virgin Galactic readies for Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo — the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm's suborbital fleet.

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger

Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of

Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a

65 million years after they ruled the planet, dinosaurs are back

You’ve bought the big gift, the clothing gift, and maybe even the cute gift. But something’s missing from the pile of presents. Fret not, there’s still time to buy a stocking

NASA is still perplexed over the parachute failure that damaged its new Ares I-X test rocket during its October test launch, but otherwise the debut flight went well, mission

There's nothing like a 'best of the year' list for stirring up controversy. This time one of the most prolific list makers in publishing has inadvertently kicked up an academic