Religion is not something that scientists study very deeply, say anthropologist Scott Atran and social psychologist Jeremy Ginges in the journal Science. There is sort of an agreement between science and religion to remain separate, they say, and that has not been a good thing.
Facebook’s upcoming IPO might be the talk of the social media world this week, but Twitter’s hoping to make a bit of its own buzz. The social media company has just announced some new ways that it will be experimenting with making it easier for...
If SpaceX safely launches its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule into orbit, it could be the the start of something. It would be the first private-enterprise flight to the International Space Station. Ought NASA to be nervous? Hardly.
The Segway a bit too big for you? Or require a bit too much standing for your liking? Well, Honda’s got an interesting-looking solution in the works — the Honda UNI-CUB. Called a “personal mobility device,” the UNI-CUB looks like a unicycle sans the cycle...
While Verizon Wireless used to offer unlimited data plans for its customers, it stopped offering all-you-can-eat data plans last July for new customers. However, those that had been grandfathered in under an unlimited data plan have still been able to pay $30 a month for...
Enjoy the sun. If you live along a narrow band across the southwestern United States, Sunday afternoon will bring the rare treat of an annular solar eclipse — a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and the sun, blocks most, but...
Facebook, in one of the world's most widely anticipated initial public offerings of stock, has announced that it will add 84 million shares, worth up to $3.2 billion, to the IPO, which is expected to raise as much as $16 billion for the company, valued at roughly $100 billion.
Google's new Knowledge Graph is a new search tool that will begin rolling out starting today, and it it's meant to help you find search results faster. When you search now for popular or well-known people, places and things you'll get a box to the left of the results explaining more about that term.
ABC’s Tech Contributor Andrea Smith (@abcandrea) has a round-up of today’s latest gadgets for those ready to take on the world post-graduation. APPLE TV $99 Your grad is already living in an HD world and technology is doing its best to keep up. Apple has...
ABC News' gadget roundup this week features the nostalgically fun Etch A Sketch case for the iPad, a USB battery fuel cell charger for smartphones, and HP's newest Spectre XT ultrabook. Click through for more exciting gadget picks this week.
A new piece of controversial technology-related legislation is making its way though the House and now the Senate – the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. What is the bill and what's going to happen next?
Click on the video below and prepare to be mesmerized. It’s called “Perpetual Ocean,” and it was put together by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. It was actually done about a year ago, compiling data from several satellites...
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks Saturday night and Sunday morning, April 21-22. It's a relatively small shower -- 20 shooting stars per hour -- but a new moon should mean darker skies and better seeing.
A young woolly mammoth, found remarkably well preserved in the tundra in Siberia, may have been attacked by lions -- but scientists say there are signs it was then butchered by ancient humans.
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the famed 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman, found frozen in the Alps in 1991 -- and discovered he had genetic vulnerability to heart disease, as well as Lyme disease.
The plant in this picture dates from the Pleistocene Age, 30,000 years ago, before agriculture, before writing, before the last Ice Age. And while it’s not accurate to say the plant itself is that old, scientists in Russia say they regenerated it from frozen cells...
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope say they have found two planets orbiting a distant star -- and say the planets are the first ever that are the size of Earth or smaller. That could be critical in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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