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Young Richie Lopez of Mesa, Arizona, was born with eyeballs. This is his story.

When you're spending just shy of $55,000 on a watch (or $60,000 if you prefer the look of white gold) you're going to want something that catches people's eyes so they know just how affluent you are. And as Back to the F...

People who report a strong compulsion to use Facebook have brain abnormalities similar to those of people addicted to other substances.

The Justice Department has been building a database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret intelligence-gathering program that scans hundreds of millions of records about motorists.

Astronomers watching the repeated and drawn-out dimming of a relatively nearby Sun-like star have interpreted their observations to indicate an eclipse by a gigantic exoplanet’s complex ring system, similar to Saturn�...

The extinctions we cause will kill us too, says the sociobiology pioneer - the best thing would be to eliminate religions, though not human spiritual yearning (full text available to subscribers)

There is, as it turns out, more than one way to unboil an egg -- and the new way carries great potential for the development of pharmaceuticals.

Apple has released important security updates for Mac users who are continuing to run OS X Mavericks (10.9.5) and OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5). The updates are versioned as “Security Update 2015-001″ for both system s...

Imagery captured from Saturday through Monday (Jan. 24 to Jan. 26) by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's GOES-East spacecraft shows the storm's development and movement --

The employee told the Secret Service that he did not mean to fly the drone over the fence or near the president's residence, according to law enforcement officials.

Alongside a host of TV announcements at CES 2015, there were multiple new TV technologies to go with them: quantum dots, HDR, MEMS and more. All of them aim to make the dominant TV technology, LCD, look better. Here's wh...

In the past 12 months, most of EA's revenue came from digital sources -- a first for the company.

There's no need to freak out about HTC's new 'cloud' gallery app -- it's not uploading your food pics anywhere We've had more than a few people ask us about a new notification that's popping up on HTC phones referencing ...

Two drug candidates can target biological pathways involved in the destruction of brain cells in Parkinson's disease, scientists have reported. The studies suggest that it is possible to design highly effective and highl...

The Moon has long been viewed as a crucial component in creating an environment suitable for the evolution of complex life on Earth, but a number of scientific results in recent years have shown that perhaps our planet d...

There are plenty of browsers out there today that web users can choose from including the old standby Internet Explorer and the newer Chrome and Firefox browsers among others. If none of those browsers is really your cup...

Four NASA soundings rockets were launched within a half hour into the northern lights in an effort to better understand and visualize turbulent air currents in the upper atmosphere.

Facebook and Instagram went down early Tuesday morning as a major snowstorm hit the Northeast. Reports on social media indicate that Tindr and Hipchat were also down. Users worldwide were affected by the outage, The Asso...

Among other things, Apple's Second Coming of the Mobile Payment Solution was meant to fix our broke-ass credit card security system . Only, according to (unconfirmed) reports, it's doing exactly the opposite.

This month, a grim study in the journal Science reported what we've feared for decades: That the ocean may "be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event," in the words of one author. There's a colossal amount of...

With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) preparing to restart in a few months, data from its first run has already been bearing fruit.

It's usually only possible to see the spot where a laser lands rather than its path, but now an ultrafast camera has caught those photons mid-flight