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California residents in the Napa area got a rude awakening early this morning when an earthquake of roughly magnitude 6.0 shook the valley. --

Did the earth move for - oh, OK. It just did. A lot A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook northern Californians out of bed today at 3.20am, shutting down power and wrecking homes in the state's wine country....

The launch service provider Arianespace confirmed late Friday (Aug. 22) that two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation network were released into the wrong orbit after launching aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Gui...

Let's all just be glad that Earth keeps rotating. In his new book, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Situations, xkcd author Randall Munroe illustrates some of life's most bizarre questions and ...

Sometimes those quick and easy life hacks are just a web of lies. While you're browsing your Pinterest boards for outdoor DIY hacks and projects, you probably run into one or two ideas that seem too good to be true. Whil...

Scientists at the University of Michigan announced this week the creation of a "transparent luminescent solar concentrator" that could turn windows and even cellphone screens into solar-power generators. This technology ...

For years now, the tiny 5-watt charger that has shipped with the iPhone has gone more or less unchanged. But according to a new report out of China, this fall, Apple will ship a new, squatter charger with the release…

LOS ANGELES — Like the powerful wrecking ball in Miley Cyrus' music video of the same name, the pop star has kept her career on full throttle ever since her jaw-dropping, twerk-filled performance at last year's MTV Vid...

Should you use cheddar? Just ask the boffins at the University of Auckland.

Definitely ideal if looking for a safe, clean hospital for an upcoming surgery, a badge system created by Biovigil checks to see if the medical staff is washing their hands after interacting with patients. The post Biovi...

The personal files of over 25,000 Homeland Security employees has been compromised owing to a cyber hacking. The computers of USIS, which performs background checks for DHS, were hacked.

Arguably a harsh sentence for pirating a film, a young resident of the United Kingdom was sent to prison for nearly three years related to piracy and distribution charges of the last film in the Fast & Furious franchise....

[From GamerTell] Jenni Lada can tell, even from her first few hours of play, that Natural Doctrine is a game that demands excellence.

LG's next smartwatch, the LG G Watch R, is set to make its debut at IFA 2014, a freshly-revealed video teaser has confirmed, with a circular design to directly challenge Motorola's wearable. The watch, expected to run An...

Hint: Turn to third-party software.          

Wind energy was one of the largest contributors to an increase in renewable electricity generation in 2013, but different regions of the globe are adopting wind power at different paces. Most of the leading countries wit...

The FBI just switched over to Next-Generation Identification, a new digital system for keeping track of the 83 million fingerprint cards the bureau maintains. That means dismantling thousands of filing cabinets that were...

Celebrities will shake the device the way they would a Magic 8-Ball and then answer a question using the video camera.          

Would you trust Wikipedia -- one of the most popular websites in the world -- any more (or even less) if you knew people were being paid to contribute content to the encyclopedia?

Shaylee was busy playing with her toys on the couch when footage from one of NASA's Space Shuttle launches started playing on television. Anyone who's witnessed something as awe-inspiring as human spaceflight will surely...

British actor Richard Attenborough died on Sunday sometime during the afternoon; his son confirmed the death with the Associated Press. He was 90 years old Attenborough's family is expected to make a full statement about...

UPDATE 4:30 p.m. EDT: An RAF Northolt specially equipped C-17 aircraft ferried Britain's first confirmed Ebola sufferer from Sierra Leone to London Sunday, the BBC reported. A Health Department spokesman said the patient...