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The 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.42 percent with some analysts contending the decline was a response to current events.

One of the craziest shots of the year.          

A team of engineers from Harvard and MIT have developed oragami-inspired robots that are capable of folding and unfolding themselves.

 President Barack Obama spoke in favor of net neutrality this week, pushing back against the idea of paid prioritization, which many call Internet “fast lanes.” Following the president’s comments, a number of tech...

After first airstrikes, US drops new aid to thousands of Iraqis fleeing militant advance

Is wearable tech already wearing thin?

Hacker fashion is on display in Las Vegas this week.

The militants resumed their rocket attacks Friday shortly before the 72-hour truce expired, drawing a wave of retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least five Palestinians. 

It's Jaws vs. Bigger Jaws. A crocodile was caught crushing a bull shark to death in Australia on Tuesday -- proving that size really does matter. The 80-year-old croc, named...

Erdogan victory could shift Turkish president's role from figurehead to more powerful rule

Apple has a bigger base, but Samsung is shipping more units. Google's Android OS is still sitting pretty.

A woman and man died after the car they were in was hit by a freight train in Gary early this morning, authorities said.

The Big Bang has a lot of problems. For one, the usual laws of physics break down in a singularity. It’s bizarre and chaotic; anything could happen. Which makes cosmologists wonder why it would evolve into something as...

Umpire Gary Cederstrom was making a call at third base on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium when he apparently hit a slick patch in the grass. During the top of the second inning between the San Francisco Giants and Kansa...

Some political debates have two equally valid sides. More often than not, however, the evidence is significantly more one-sided than journalists and pundits suggest. AB 1522, a bill that the California Senate's Committee...

Today in celebrity gossip: Lindsay Lohan wore a beach vendor's child as an accessory while on vacation, Danity Kane split up, and Charlize Theron tried to get Tia Mowry banned from SoulCycle.

ISIS Islamist fighters are now a mere 25 miles from the Kurdish capital

Israeli tanks gathered on the the border with Gaza on Saturday (August 9) as explosions could be seen over the coastal enclave. Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza early on Saturday and militants fired se...

The synthesis of ammonia is one of the globe's most significant industrial applications of chemistry. PhysOrg reports the publication in the August issue of Science (sadly, article is paywalled) the description of a low-...

China will be punishing Chrysler and Audi for monopolistic practices. The two companies can be fined for up to 10 percent of their annual profit.

Kerry seeks to calm South China Sea tensions between China, neighbors at Asia security talks

In a shaded corner just past the entrance to Brechtel Park, 10 goats are hard at work. They have spent the last three months chewing their way through invasive vines and weeds that threaten to swallow the park's tree can...