China’s main centers for making and storing nuclear arms lie in the earthquake zone, leading Western experts to look for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape.

A previously unknown variety of ant, with a staggering propensity to reproduce and no known enemies, is flourishing in Texas.

Persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies prompts Los Angeles plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies.

Thanks to its aggressive push into renewable energies, cloud-wreathed Germany has become an unlikely leader in the race to harness the sun’s energy.

At $1.8 billion, Thursday’s deal for CNet by CBS is the biggest by far in its recent Internet expansion, making the network bigger players in online media.

The deal between Yahoo and WPP Group, the advertising holding company, will give WPP’s clients a broader swath of Web sites where they can aim their messages.

After years of conflict, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child, have reached an agreement that will put Windows on the organization’s computers.

Stickam, a live webcam chat site, says hackers broke into a message board system and made off with users’ e-mail addresses. Now those addresses are in the hands of spammers.

This summer, both Apple and Research in Motion are expected to introduce new 3G smart phones which, while stylistically different, will compete ear-to-ear.

In its quest to increase search traffic, Ask.com buys the owner of Dictionary.com.

CNet is big, but growth is slow and profit margins are low. That’s just like CBS, which agreed to buy CNet for $1.8 billion on Thursday.

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com and Intel plan to jointly develop a computer designed to get small and medium-sized Chinese businesses online.

Virgin Mobile USA said that it is in “preliminary discussions” with Helio majority owner SK Telecom about possible strategic opportunities.

The billionaire investor and activist shareholder proposed a dissident slate of directors for the Yahoo board as he tries to force the company to restart talks to sell itself to Microsoft.

The company said profit fell 6.2 percent to 426 million pounds ($828.5 million) in the fourth quarter as costs rose and it lost some wholesale customers to broadband services.

The deal for CNET is CBS’s biggest online acquisition since it hired Quincy Smith, a former media and technology investment banker, to lead its interactive unit in late 2006.

In an age of global warming and high gas prices, is it any wonder that more spa-goers are gravitating to spa products that are cultivated locally?

Mr. Levine helped create Phil Spector’s groundbreaking “wall of sound” technique on hit records by the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign promise to spend $150 billion on alternative energy drew praise from Silicon Valley.

The decision may be less of an impediment to oil and gas exploration in Alaska than environmental groups had hoped.