Australia has been experiencing a record setting heat wave. Melissa Block speaks with Dr. Karl Braganza, manager of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre in Australia, about why this is happening, and how Aust ...

A dangerous and historic discovery was made in Central Park on Friday afternoon. Parks workers came upon a live cannon ball, loaded in a cannon that is getting refurbished.

It’s already out there that space entrepreneur Elon Musk has plans to someday colonize Mars, and that those with the means are invited to become a part of his red planet oasis. But there’s a catch we just heard about: Colonists must also be vegetaria ...

This is some nature porn for sure

The FBI has developed new software that scans e-mails for buzz words and phrases that indicate the sender (and receiver) or said mail are up to no good, the FT reports. There are over 3,000 words and phrases that would raise a red flag in the program ...

In 2012 HTML5 games made a big step forward. We finally realised that we don't need tech demos or examples anymore – we all know that HTML5 has matured enough.

Politics is a repetitive business. And two of the best candidates are black.

Online shopping seems like a straightforward process: hunt down the perfect item, trudge through the checkout pipeline and await a package's inevitable arrival.

Where you don't have to worry about a deer coming through your windshield.

Move over, Baby New Year, and make way for Kimye Jr. Yes, indeed, Kim Kardashian is pregnant with...

The only thing worse than a drunk text is a drunk holiday text. Here's how to protect you from yourself this New Year's Eve.

Well, it is that time of year where we start to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year. In 2012 we have seen several new trends appear in web design...

It took Facebook 12 days to copy Snapchat's self-deleting social-networking app, then took Snapchat days to become really, really popular.

Fond of your family name? Good -- it's about to get a bit more visible. Foursquare is planning to display full user names on profile pages, explaining in

Earlier this year, in its Q2 2012 earnings report, Facebook disclosed that 4.8 percent of its accounts were either duplicate or fake accounts

Japanese researchers have developed a way to move magnetically levitated graphite discs with nothing but light.

A Lakewood dad thought he was getting his son a special surprise for Christmas, but it turns out that he got far more than he bargained for. Mark Giles bought his 5-year-old son, Braydon, a refurbished Nintendo 3DS from a local GameStop.

In a world where computers are increasingly powerful, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) offers surprising proof for the virtue of moderation.

An unexpectedly modern Lincoln, the mercilessly gripping Zero Dark Thirty, the happy submission of Pitch Perfect, and more.

It's an interesting time to buy an all-in-one PC, that's for sure. The iMac is thinner and more powerful than ever, and Windows machines finally have touchscreens that appeal to an average user.