JOHNSTON --- State officials worked Monday to coordinate response efforts to flooding throughout Iowa, providing hundreds of thousands of sandbags, pumps, generators and technical assistance to help communities struggling to hold back floodwaters and those already inundated.

While hikers who listen to the musical group Genesis have known the dangers of Giant Hogweed since 1971, the Weed Science Society of America is warning every one of the dangers of the weed.

A MAN was burnt on his head and hands when his Toowoomba unit block was set on fire today, police said.

Modular malware comes to the MacThe Mac security scene is heating up, with the discovery in recent weeks of a serious vulnerability in OS X and at least two Trojan horse programs that target the Apple OS....

Price hikes yet to kick inOracle's decision to buy 40 software companies continues to pay off, as it announced annual and quarterly earnings growth of nearly a third....

Over subscribedStrong sales helped Red Hat's first fiscal quarter 2009 get a healthy increase of cash flow, but internal investments and taxes somewhat stymied the Linux licenser's end results....

Open source BigTable and improve fluffiness, pleaseStructure 08 Yes, Google has opened its cloud to every developer down on earth. But for some, it's not quite as open as it should be....

The real person behind NASA's MarsPhoenix Twitter feed talks with Jon Gordon.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday. Climate change "will aggravate ...

VILLAGERS AGHAST: Some say they can't afford to stay any longer; help from state seen as only quick solution. Village electric utilities in rural Alaska, panicked over the sky-high cost of fuel arriving on the summer's first barges, are appealing

Sen. John McCain put a name on the strategic energy plan he has been piecing together for the last several days, likening it to President Kennedy calling for a mission to the moon in the 1960s and declaring that the

The debate over oil prices took a turn for the useless the moment our Dear Leader and his party's heir began blaming $4-a-gallon gas on people who oppose drilling in the neighborhood of Florida's beaches or in Alaska's wildlife refuge.

Contrived or otherwise, today's soaring gas prices are a tangible bonanza for Bush/McCain. Off-shore drilling would put billions in their cronies' pockets, but would not lower gas prices a single cent. Nuke power could mean billions more in radioactive lucre

We offer a Ph.D. student position in the research group of Neurobiology at the University of Murcia.The candidate will work in the field of brain morphogenesis and patterning. He/she will receive formation in:- experimental embryology (quail/chick chimaera system, organotypic cultures

Filed under: Cellphones Verizon Wireless isn't kidding around with this new Dare phone from LG: it'll hit Verizon's online shop tomorrow (the 26th) for $200 with a $50 rebate, and then land in retail on July 3rd. We've had little

The West Coast Conference announced its 2008 Spring All-Academic teams today with five Santa Clara student-athletes earning a spot on the team in baseball, women's crew, and men's and women's golf.

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentWell, what have we here? A trio of newcomers from "North America's fastest growing brand of flat-panel HDTVs," that's what. Kicking things off in the all new XVT Series is the 42-inch SV420XVT and 47-inch

Filed under: LaptopsNot like Dell's done an exceptional job keeping this one a secret, but yes, the Studio 15 and Studio 17 laptops do seem to be more than a figment of someone's imagination -- at least, according to a

For the second straight summer, the Santa Clara men's and women's tennis programs hosted the United States Tennis Association's Northern California Sectionals at the Degheri Tennis Center. This year, the Broncos help to raise close to $2,000 for the American