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Red Tape: Poodle, Glenn Beck at center of Facebook fight

March 12, 2010

You don't hear the words "poodle," "tinfoil hat," and First Amendment in the same sentence often, but they are indeed linked in a classic Facebook melodrama.

10 high-school science whizzes

March 12, 2010

Forty of the most promising students from across the country will compete in the Intel Science Talent Search. Check out 10 of the 2010 finalists.

Why the Chile earthquake aftershock was so big

March 12, 2010

The whopping 7.2-magnitude aftershock that rattled Chile again today is nothing unusual following such a large original earthquake, scientists say.

Warning: Ancient sex on show in Paris

March 12, 2010

The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature."

Humans off the hook for musk ox extinction

March 12, 2010

Humans have played a role in the extinction of many animals over the years, but when it comes to the musk ox — an Arctic mammal that started to decline around 12,000 years ago — we might be off the hook, at least for the downturns that took place long ago, a new study says.

Twitter unveils tool to share tweeting locations

March 12, 2010

Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

Water in moon rocks likely came from comets

March 12, 2010

Genuine moon water has been found for the first time in rocks that were brought back to Earth during NASA's historic Apollo missions 40 years ago.

Glenn Close latest to have genes mapped

March 12, 2010

American film actress Glenn Close has joined a handful of celebrities to have their genome sequenced in the name of science.

February video game sales drop 15 percent

March 12, 2010

U.S. retail sales of video games declined 15 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower sales of the Wii system.