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The USSR's first civilian cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov, a crew member of the Voskhod spaceship in 1964, has died in Moscow aged 83, Russian media say.

DAVID STRINGER Key scientist says leak of stolen climate change e-mails could be aimed at global talks LONDON - LONDON a ' A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate ...

An Ohio university is celebrating the International Year of Astronomy by displaying never-before-seen photos from NASA space telescopes.

What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa.

The quest for alternative energy is raising fears that too much logging debris such as limbs and bark will be removed from the nation's forests.

Nov. 21 - NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk on Saturday at the International Space Station that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis.

Smoking can be hazardous to your health, but it can also be hazardous to your Mac, apparently, to the point that it will void your warranty. That information comes from two readers of The Consumerist, but in reality, it all makes sense.

Barnes & Noble's nook e-book reader is already sold out for this holiday season, according to a report on the company's website. Apparently, buyers weren't too concerned about Spring Design's lawsuit against B&N.

Article:Four things you need to know about Apple:/g/a/2009/11/20/urnidgns852573C40069388000257674008159FE.DTL Article:Four things you need to know about Apple:/g/a/2009/11/20/urnidgns852573C40069388000257674008159FE.DTL 15:42 PST -- All big companies have their critics.

With Windows 7 having been released nearly a month since today to rave reviews worldwide, it does make us sit up and take notice that Microsoft has plans to roll out Windows 8 in 2012 - that's a mere 3 years since Windows 7 was launched, keep in sync with Microsoft's rhythm of releasing major and new software every four years apart.

A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement .

Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.

Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and risks losing its place as a leader in space travel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday.

We've discussed how using Facebook and other social networking sites can get you fired, or even keep you from getting a job. In this case, a Canadian woman lost her disability insurance payment because of Facebook photos.

There are incentives out there, but to utilize wind power, it will cost you thousands of dollars, at least up front.But if you wait out the investment, homeowners like Gail and Dan Dulgar of Seneca County say you'll get paid back.In April the Dulgars installed a wind turbine in their back yard.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station on Thursday and even whipped off an extra chore.

Questions remain as to whether tax credits, grants and loan guarantees from Washington are doing enough to drive demand for solar power in the US market.

Google Inc. , owner of the most popular Internet search engine, and a group of authors and publishers won preliminary approval of a revised settlement over the companya s plans to make millions of books available online.

Google held an event on Thursday to unveil details about is Chrome OS, which was first announced in July. Prior to Thursday, only miniscule details about the OS were known, including it running on netbooks, and delivery of the final product in the second half of 2010.

Yahoo is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to improve its Internet search engine and lure back some of its dwindling audience.