A N.Y. man is so concerned that an electromagnetic pulse attack could paralyze U.S. that he will gather a group of scientists, congressmen and others for a conference on how America  should protect itself.

The ability to send photos along with text messages was touted as one of the new features of the iPhone’s 3.0 software, released in June, but Apple and AT&T have not delivered on that promise, allege two class-action lawsuits.

It was only a matter of time before a cat got an online diploma.  But here’s the real reason the cat, who received mostly As, got a diploma: to help the Better Business Bureau’s expose Internet diploma mills.

The iridescent beauty of pearl and nacre, the material found inside mollusk shells,  would likely be impossible without two recently discovered proteins. The findings could lead to the production of larger pearls in less time.

Seabed movements believed caused by Typhoon Morakat damaged seven undersea cables linking Asian nations, disrupting Internet and telephone services.

Kindle, Amazon’s pioneering e-reading device, may not dominate the market for long. Many phones are now sophisticated enough, and have good enough screens, to be used as e-book readers.

Space.com: A stripped down version of NASA’s future spaceship designed by a Nevada-based company could be ready as soon as 2013, according to the Bigelow Aerospace, the private company proposing to build it.

Space.com: NASA has ordered some last-minute tests on the space shuttle Discovery’s giant fuel tank to see if the spacecraft is safe to blast off later this month.

An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: August’s Perseid meteor display tops off an outer-space photo album that also features must-see pictures from Mars, Saturn and beyond.