A Microsoft researcher has won the $250,000 Turing Award, 1 of technology's most coveted prizes, for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer.

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake centered near Julian shook most of San Diego County. The quake, classified as a light earthquake, struck at 8:18 p.m. Monday 14 miles east-southeast of Julian, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Cooperatives, local governments, associations must apply by May 3 The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana is one of a dozen states that could be getting a slice of about $75 million in federal funds this year to improve the water quality of its rivers and streams.

WASHINGTON -- An all-star panel of researchers says it was the crash of a giant asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs.

The remains of some of the nation's earliest Chinese settlers, whose graves were discovered five years ago during construction of a light rail line, will soon be reburied in a cemetery that once denied them entry.

Experts say there is nothing unusual about the latest spate of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Turkey, but their devastation illustrates how growing construction along the world's fault lines can lead to massive casualties.

German Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, informs journalists about restarting of the LHC at CERN, during a press conference at the Geneva Press Club in Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 8, 2010.

A strong, pre-dawn earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.

Campers headed to Maine from other states wouldn't be allowed to bring their own firewood under a proposed law headed toward passage in the state Legislature.

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system - T cells - will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body.

AFP, Melbourne Melbourne was bracing itself Sunday for further storms after a mini-cyclone ripped through Australia's second largest city, bringing with it hail stones the size of tennis balls.

Jeremy Lesniak owns a small Web design firm in Randolph, Vt. He has 10 employees and hundreds of clients.

The original manuscript of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking theory of relativity, which helps explain everything from black holes to the Big Bang, has gone on display in its entirety for the first time.

I started hearing the offers soon after arriving at the Liang Bua cave in the mountains of Flores island.

Emergency workers said Saturday that there is no hope of finding more survivors in the building, and that continuing aftershocks have made the rubble too unstable for firefighters to continue looking for 21-year-old Jose Luis Leon, the only known remaining victim not recovered.

An earthquake rumbled early Saturday off the northern California coast and dozens of people in Humboldt County reported feeling it, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A severe thunderstorm dumped hail and rain on the eastern Australian city of Melbourne on Saturday, delaying sporting events, shutting down transportation and forcing the evacuation of a train station when the storm tore a hole in its roof.

Gov. Phil Bredesen says federal agricultural disaster assistance has been approved for seven additional counties because of rain and flooding in September and October of 2009.

San Francisco wears its environmental consciousness like a green badge of honor.