The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3mm every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.

The search engine giant this week released its answer to Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh: The first Chromebooks, stripped-down notebooks running the Google Chrome operating system -- a radical computing rethinking that require Web access for the complete experience.

Here are two great apps dads in particular might like to have available when wearing one of their many hats -- whether that be playing Mr. Fix-It around the house or guarding the grill.

Infighting and conflict dominated the two weeks of climate talks that ended in Bonn on Friday, as negotiators struggled to salvage the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol -- the worldwide climate accord set to expire in 2012.

Some American Airlines Inc. pilots have begun testing iPads in an effort to ease the amount of bulky paperwork they need for flights.

A wee particle accelerator in the English countryside could be a harbinger of a safer, cleaner future of energy. Specifically, nuclear energy, but not the type that has wrought havoc in Japan and controversy throughout Europe and the U.S. It would be based on thorium, a radioactive element that is much more abundant, and much safer, than traditional sources of nuclear power.