Nasa says its Phoenix spacecraft is in good health after making the first successful landing in the north polar region of Mars. Images sent back show a flat valley floor with polygonal features that give the ground a “paved” appearance.

These days everyone is so enthusiastic about the evolution of the Web, with its free content, interesting blogs, citizen journalism and the rest of it. Not me. The big problem, as I see it, is the decline in general perspective, which is due to the...

To help you understand how the Internet works, we’ll look at the things that happen when you do a typical Internet operation — pointing a browser at the front page of this document at its home on the Web at the Linux Documentation Project

keep thinking I should be mad at West Virginia.Not because Barack Obama was recently beaten like a red-headed stepchild — to use my father’s expression — in that state’s primary. No, I’m thinking I should be upset about why...

A 28-year-old man with a history of mental problems fled from the cops and spent 40 minutes hiding in a lake before they collared him and hauled him to the ER.His body temperature had fallen to a chilly 89 degrees. Docs found speed and cocaine in his...

Analysts like to make waves. After all, if what they say lacks impact, then no-one pays attention.So how about this prediction from Forrester:

A question increasingly asked is whether Google is becoming a dangerous monopoly. It is a very serious question. If we end up with one company controlling search - the gateway to information - it could be catastrophic if it abused its position. Google...

Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets...

Moral of this story: if you’re digging yourself into a hole, stop digging. Yesterday, we got a tip about a self-described

Astronomers have found some matter that had been missing in deep space and say it is strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone of the universe.