A 20-year-old motorist fiddling with her iPod as she drove in suburban Philadelphia struck two best friends coming out of a hospital, killing one of them.

Many phones are now sophisticated enough, and have good enough screens, to be used as e-book reading devices

The records show that if the melting of the Pine Island Glacier in west Antarctica goes on accelerating at current rates, the main section will disappear in 100 years, 500 years sooner than previously thought

Motola was injured in 1999 while working at a logging camp along the Myanmar-Thailand border, a region peppered with land mines after half a century of insurgency.

The finding, based on the most detailed computer simulations to date, counters earlier ideas that these first black holes accumulated mass quickly and ballooned into the supermassive black holes that lurk at the centers of many galaxies today

Exxon Mobil Corp. pleaded guilty to killing migratory birds in five states, and will pay about $7,000 for each bird killed.

A new article by British researchers calls for more attention to be paid in the medical community to sleep paralysis, also known as “night terrors.”

Norwegian scientists’ large, cross-sectional study of more than 50,000 people has found that caffeine seems to both cause and prevent hurting heads.

This new technology brings augmented reality to museums, palaces, castles and other tourist attractions.

Crews removing a 1,000-pound slab of sandstone off the Santa Cruz County beach Wednesday discovered the remains and called in paleontologists, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.