Look up at the sky Monday night to see a bright cosmic frown. The planets Jupiter and Venus will briefly align to form (nearly upside down) two eyes and a frowning mouth in the southwest. In what's called a planetary conjunction, the two planets --the brightest in the night sky -- will appear extre...

Blockbuster has launched their brand new service to customers which will allow them to download movies directly to their computer. The "Blockbuster On Demand" service requires the use of a box, which is free if you rent 25 movies in advance for $99.

The Web hosting service McColo was shut down earlier this month, as it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the company was indeed responsible for about three quarters of the worldwide Internet spam. Two of their ISPs ended their collaboration with McColo after they were provided unden...

Can Googling delay the onset of dementia? A new UCLA study, part of the growing research into the effects of technology on the brain, shows that searching the Internet may keep older brains agile - it's like taking your brain for a walk. It's too early to conclude that technology will help van...

Scientists have identified new rifts on an Antarctic ice shelf that could lead to it breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, the European Space Agency said. The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a large sheet of floating ice south of South America, is connected to two Antarctic islands by a strip of ice. Th...

Sears.com was inaccessible to U.S. shoppers for two hours on Friday in what was the most notable Web hiccup of the holiday gift-buying season's official start. Other sites, including Amazon.com Inc., experienced minor slowdowns, according to Shawn White, director of external operations at Keynote...

Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month. University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural A...

The man who came to Elsie Bacon's ranch house door in July asked the 71-year-old widow to grant access to a right of way across the dry hills and short grasses of her land here. Ms. Bacon remembered his insistence on a quick, secret deal. The man, a representative of the Little Rose Wind Farm of ...

Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal o...

Fossils of the oldest-known turtles, unearthed in southwestern China, may help answer an evolutionary enigma--how did the turtle get its shell? The 220-million-year-old animals did not have full shells, or carapaces, on their backs, researchers found. But the newfound creatures ...