Among those arrested Monday were “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman and two producers from her show, as well as an Associated Press photographer. Goodman also writes a newspaper column for King Features Syndicate.

Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor,

Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests. By Roger Highfield.

NASA researchers yesterday released images collected by a new telescope studying high-energy gamma rays. A combined image from 95 hours of the telescope’s initial observations showed bursts of gamma rays glowing across the plane of the Milky Way

Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations in devices made from gallium...

The West evokes thoughts of classic heroes riding into troubled towns, bringing justice and order. The candidate who captures that myth — and the region’s swing voters — will have the advantage.By PATTY LIMERICK

Americans will soon be able to use Xbox Live to register to vote in the November presidential elections.

NASCAR will run under the lights at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2009, The Associated Press has learned.

Hoping to understand why the universe seems to be coming apart at its seams, a young astronomer and his colleagues have embarked on one of the oldest quests in cosmology, to measure how fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is.

I work over at VBS.tv and I wanted to share this eye opening and disturbing environmental video on Linfen China.