The oldest known chunk of Earth's crust has been found in Greenland, and dates back at least 3.8 billion years.

On Tuesday, a bug in the social news site's Digg Spy tool gave one smart Digger the ability to peer into the inner workings of the community. Namely, David LeMieux found a way to highlight which users were burying stories on Digg, and why.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice, demanding records about secret new court orders that supposedly authorize the government's highly controversial electronic surveillance program that intercepts and anal

Internet privacy? Google already knows more about you than the National Security Agency ever will. And don't assume for a minute it can keep a secret. YouTube fans-and everybody else-beware.

Major telecommunications companies are spending millions lobbying the U.S. congress to make the Internet into a private network.

The fate of tiny Pluto is hanging in the balance.

Dying of lung cancer, Carolyn Hobbs tried a new biotechnology drug that produced an unanticipated side effect: acute sticker shock. She was waiting for her second treatment in a hospital near Denver less than two years ago,

GEO 600 is trying to detect the ripples created in the fabric of space-time that sweep out from merging black holes or exploding stars.Success would confirm fundamental physical theories, enabling scientists to probe the moment of creation itself.