'... or are you just glad to see me?' Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in 'Hysteria' True story: Physicians in the 19th century used to provide genital massage to their female patients to treat their "hysteria," a nervous condition that today we might recognize as a plethora of more modern afflictions such as depression and anxiety.

The Branch of the Paris police force known as the Child Protection Unit, or CPU, has a hard job day in and day out.

Scientists have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.

Britain should have its own spaceport where satellites and intrepid travellers could be blasted into orbit, according to business leaders.

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

Hot social network Pinterest just landed a sizable cash infusion: The company raised $100 million in a financing round by e-commerce giant Rakuten.

A few of Verizon's upcoming phones have leaked including the Galaxy S III and other top devices.

About 4,700 asteroids are close enough and big enough to pose a risk to Earth, NASA estimated Wednesday after studying data beamed back from an orbiting telescope.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko poses for a picture on board the space station in this picture released May 16.

Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western United States for Sunday's annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

Police say a 21-year-old British man has been sentenced to a year in jail for hacking into the Facebook account of someone in the United States .

The new feature debuting Wednesday draws from a Google-built database of more than 500 million people, places and commonly requested things to provide a summary of vital information alongside the main search results.

Delta Air Lines says it may have charged some frequent fliers higher fares than other customers for almost three weeks because of a computer glitch.

Virginia is for lovers, so the slogan goes -- but more specifically, it seems to be the state many book-lovers call home.

So, let's say you're doing a Google search for "Kings." Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs.

In this April 12, 2011 image from video provided by braingate2.org, Cathy Hutchinson of East Taunton, Mass.

NASA declared on Tuesday that "everyone is `go"' for a Hawthorne rocket developer's upcoming launch to the International Space Station.

A Chicago man has been charged with robbing an Old Town bank after police were able to track and catch him using a GPS device concealed in the money he stole, according to the FBI .

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC May 15, 2012: Lenovo today at its Accelerate Channel Partner Conference in Las Vegas previewed the upcoming ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, the lightest 14-inch Ultrabook in the industry.