Do video games make kids eat more?
2011-05-05 10:59:50
An hour spent playing video games may make teenage boys eat more over the rest of the day, a small study suggests.
Blown circuit found in shuttle fuse box
2011-05-05 10:37:16
NASA says a switch box removed from space shuttle Endeavour has a blown circuit.
Judge awards $1.9M to family of boy killed by bear
2011-05-04 16:12:55
A Utah federal judge on Tuesday awarded nearly $2 million to the family of an 11-year-old boy killed by a bear at a campsite in 2007.
Seas will rise faster than thought by 2100
2011-05-04 14:06:42
Global sea levels will rise faster than expected this century, partly because of quickening climate change in the Arctic and a thaw of Greenland's ice, an international report said on Tuesday.
Superfast super bus in the Netherlands
2011-05-04 11:26:25
Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut, and a team from Delft University of Technology co-designed this 23-seat superbus.
NASA delays Endeavour's final launch
2011-05-03 11:02:08
NASA is pushing back from May 8 to May 10 its target for the already delayed launch of space shuttle Endeavour.
Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked
2011-05-03 15:07:03
Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts。
Norway best for moms, Afghanistan worst
2011-05-03 12:56:43
The best place in the world to be a mom is Norway, where maternal and child mortality rates are low, women's life expectancy and years in school are high, and the average maternity leave is about one year.
US:rice originates in China
2011-05-03 08:52:17
Rice originated in China, a team of US genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary history.
Endeavour's launch no earlier than May 8
2011-05-02 09:54:51
The high-profile voyage of Endeavour - the next-to-last space shuttle flight led by the husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - is off until at least next Sunday because of a technical problem.
Sources: Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden dead
2011-05-02 10:50:57
Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the US is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.
6.1-magnitude quake hits south of Panama
2011-04-30 17:11:00
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted south of Panama early Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.