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A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company’s slump.

After a day’s delay due to weather, the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off into the night on Monday to begin NASA’s last big space station construction mission.

On the eve of Sunday’s launch of space shuttle Endeavour, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said he supports President Obama’s goal of making the space industry a commercial venture, but is concerned about potential job losses at the agency.

More than 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the New World, Native Americans had already domesticated turkeys twice: first in south-central Mexico at around 800 B.C. and again in what is now the southwestern U.S. at about 200 B.C., according to a new study.

NASA and President Barack Obama’s administration expect to spend months working out the specifics for their new plan for U.S. space exploration, even as some within the space agency mourn the loss of its current effort to send astronauts back to the moon.

China on Wednesday again urged President Barack Obama not to hold a planned meeting with Dalai Lama, saying it would further hurt already strained bilateral relations.

In the wake of President Obama’s proposed budget cuts, will U.S. astronauts ever return to the moon? Yes, says NASA, but maybe not in a government-built spaceship — and maybe not any time soon.

President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget request has effectively shut down NASA’s five-year effort to return astronauts to the moon, leaving the U.S. space agency with lofty goals — but no firm deadlines — to once again send humans beyond Earth orbit.

American astronauts will not return to the moon as planned if Congress passes President Obama’s proposed budget.

More than 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the New World, Native Americans had already domesticated turkeys twice: first in south-central Mexico at around 800 B.C. and again in what is now the southwestern U.S. at about 200 B.C., according to a new study.

Getting to space is about to be outsourced.

The iPad will be the product that kids of this generation grow up with and look back on with affection just like we did with the first video games.

A California preservation panel votes to put Tranquility Base on a register of historical resources, even though it’s 221,000 miles away.

International experts converged on Mexico City this month to discuss the best way to establish a global detection and warning network to monitor potential asteroid threats to all life on Earth.

Supercomputing has helped astrophysicists create massive models of the universe, but such simulations remain out of reach for many in the United States and around the world.

President Obama announced Thursday that the federal government will spend $8 billion developing a nationwide high-speed train system — an investment the White House says is needed to help spur long-term economic growth.

President Barack Obama is essentially grounding plans to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in new directions with roughly $6 billion more.

The initial phase of building the rambling complex within remote desert scenery in New Mexico  is quickening as loads of asphalt and concrete are being spread.

Mexican archaeologists have found an 1,100-year-old tomb from the twilight of the Maya civilization that they hope may shed light on what happened to the once-glorious culture.

A hacker broke into 49 House Web sites of both political parties overnight to post a crude attack on President Barack Obama.

The tone of tweets on Twitter and posts on Facebook in reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday night were in contrast to the optimistic comments on his speeches to Congress in September and during his inauguration.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is lifting the veil today on what may be the most anticipated tech product of the year. For the quickest updates follow @cnntech on Twitter or check the CNNmoney live blog.

The California Institute of Technology says physicist Andrew Lange, who conducted award-winning research into the remnants of the Big Bang, is dead at age 52.

The U.S. space agency NASA will send surveillance flights over Haiti and the Dominican Republic to look for signs that more earthquakes may hit the area after a giant quake that killed as many as 200,000 people two weeks ago.

Rapid technological leaps forward in the last 10 years mean mankind is closer than ever before to knowing whether extra-terrestrial life exists in our galaxy, one of Britain’s leading scientists said on Tuesday.

For the past 50 years, scientists have scoured the skies for radio signals from beyond our planet, hoping for some sign of extraterrestrial life. But one physicist says there’s no reason alien life couldn’t already be lurking among us — or maybe even in us.

For the past 50 years, scientists have scoured the skies for radio signals from beyond our planet, hoping for some sign of extraterrestrial life. But one physicist says there’s no reason alien life couldn’t already be lurking among us — or maybe even in us.

NASA’s budget, just over $18.7 billion this year, is still expected to rise again in 2011, though by much less than the $1 billion increase NASA and its contractors have been privately anticipating since mid-December

Study: This parasitic illness is not usually serious, but its presence at so many zoo, and among so many different species, shows the need for zoos to closely monitor the health of staff and animals.

Cruise Bogle, 18, was skimboarding with friends in Delray Beach, Florida, when he took a wave that whipped his board out from under him. Bogle was thrown backward, and his head hit the ocean floor. When friends saw him lying still in the surf, they knew something was wrong and rushed him to the hospital.

More than a week after an earthquake leveled swaths of the Haitian capital, the recriminations are circulating faster than clean water. From CNN’s Anderson Cooper to blogs and social networks, questions echo: Why is help taking so long? Why can’t the relief process be streamlined? Can’t this thing go any faster?

Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts.

Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts.

To find Earthlike worlds around other stars, scientists should take a page from our own planet, a new study reports.

As the administration of President Barack Obama prepares to propose changes to NASA’s human spaceflight program, an independent NASA safety advisory panel is warning the space agency against abandoning its current plans.

Text messaging services restarted with some restrictions Sunday for cell phone users in far western China, more than six months after deadly ethnic rioting prompted the government to shut them down.

Some Twitter users are revealing the locations of police drunk-driving checkpoints in Mexico City and the people behind the tweets could be prosecuted, police said Monday.

It’s official: Apple Inc. will host a much-anticipated press event January 27 in San Francisco, California.

Google’s threat to pull out of China and the devastating Haiti earthquake are causing people to reassess the impact of social media on the world. But new media can’t effect change by itself.

As disaster crews and scientists investigate the havoc wrought in Haiti, questions emerge as to whether such a vastly destructive disaster could happen at home in the United States.

NASA says it has launched an investigation after finding cocaine in a processing hangar for a space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck just outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti last night could be just the beginning. According to geologists monitoring the region, the quake could have primed faults crisscrossing the island of Hispaniola to unleash additional destructive temblors.

Scientists have warned for years that the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, was at risk for a major earthquake.

As a California court wades once again into the thorny issue of same-sex marriage, a side debate develops over the role of YouTube and other online media — already players in politics — in the courtroom.

The sky’s no longer the limit for Cecil Field airport in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was awarded a federal license on Monday to fly commercial space vehicles being designed to ferry tourists, researchers and others beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

Some birds make long treks south during wintertime, but the Artic tern bests them all, flying on average 44,000 miles on its annual migration from pole to pole, according to a new study.

Two organizations representing the blind have settled a discrimination lawsuit against Arizona State University over its use of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader device.

NASA is still hoping to launch the shuttle Endeavour in early February as engineers scramble to repair broken hoses on the new space station module set to ride aboard the orbiter.

It’s hard to imagine a video of lawyers debating points of constitutional law going viral on YouTube, but the audience for the Proposition 8 trial — a lawsuit seeking to overturn California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage — is potentially vast. Unfortunately, that audience will have to wait.

Doctors and medical technology executives said Saturday that the biggest hurdle to computerizing health care is the reluctance of consumers to sign on. Without consumer demand, they said, they can’t justify the cost.

No brand is guaranteed eternal health. But these once-top tech companies haven’t just lost a little of their luster, they’ve gone seriously adrift.

The successful second-stage test clears the way for its maiden flight in the next few months. The demonstration launch is targeted to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

For Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, it was a virtual black eye. But visitors to hacked politicians’ Web sites may be in for more than a little embarassment.

Fearing a rift with the United States, the European Union said Thursday it may force resistant member states to use the full-body scanners being pushed by the Obama administration in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing.

Got an e-mail list of customers or readers and want to know more about each ? such as their full name, friends, gender, age, interests, location, job and education level?

NASA braved below-freezing temperatures in Florida on Wednesday to move the space shuttle Endeavour to its seaside launch pad for a planned Feb. 7 blastoff to the International Space Station.

Britons snowed in by the wintry weather have been flocking to an extra-marital dating site in the last 24 hours.

It’s official: Google will sell its own mobile phone in an effort to protect its online advertising empire as people increasingly surf the Web on handsets instead of personal computers.

The Obama administration is calling on federal regulators to make more radio spectrum available for wireless Internet services to compete with broadband plans provided by the major phone and cable companies.

Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.

Days after the bloody weekend crackdown on Iranian protesters, the issue is still generating thousands of posts on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

The Birmingham Zoo says one of the oldest giraffes in the world has died at age 24.

Beginning New Year’s Day, Oregon police officers may hear some arguing when they start pulling motorists over for violating a new law banning them from talking on hand-held cell phones while driving.

Flash forward to about a year from now, if you will. Envision yourself walking into a consumer electronics store toward the end of 2010. What kinds of HDTV products and features is your retail salesperson likely to tout?

A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S.

A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S.

This season marks the count’s 110th year, making it the longest-running wildlife census on record and one that has contributed hugely to data about changing bird ranges linked to global warming and habitat change.

Limited Internet services slowly began to return to far western China on Tuesday, almost six months after ethnic rioting led the government to shut down Web and phone links to the outside world.

Panasonic Corp. has developed more powerful batteries for use in everything from laptops to electric vehicles, the Japanese electronics maker said Friday.

At the top of a small hill in suburban southern California, there is what appears to be a thicket of stunted, gnarled oak trees wedged between a pile of boulders. A passerby would likely miss this ancient, biological wonder.

Security experts warn of a tough job ahead for President Obama’s first cybersecurity tsar appointed after a seven month search.

Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation’s ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient’s health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person is headed for a hospital.

A Florida mother is being criticized by bloggers and Twitter users for posting a tweet less than an hour after her 2-year-old son drowned in a swimming pool at her home.

A Florida mother is being criticized by bloggers and Twitter users for posting a tweet less than an hour after her 2-year-old son drowned in a swimming pool at her home.

California-born Dave March has always had a passion for cars and boats.

A producer from a small company in Uruguay is offered a $30m contract after Hollywood directors saw his YouTube film.

The Ohio Supreme Court said Tuesday police officers must obtain a search warrant before scouring the contents of a suspect’s cell phone, unless their safety is in danger.

A 13-year-old teen was probably in hot water with his father after running up a cell phone bill of nearly $22,000.

Fighting its way through more than two years of delays, Boeing’s latest aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, is scheduled to take its maiden flight Tuesday.

When a police officer used his city-issued pager to exchange personal messages, did he have a right to expect privacy?

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from company accounts.

Imagine you were trapped in a room for weeks with nothing to eat but a single leaf of lettuce.  For microscopic bacteria holed up in ancient buried salt flats in California’s Death Valley, that’s life.

NASA on Monday launched a space telescope designed to scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies.

Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format.

Gambling, guns, tobacco and … milk? Facebook bans the promotion of all four, but a food industry group says it should ease up on the one that comes out of cows and gives you healthy bones.

Florida’s judges and lawyers can no longer “friend” each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.

Hikers recently stumbled across a few bits of bone at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, leading to the discovery of a game-changing dinosaur that reveals where it all began.

Teachers trying to get students interested in molecular biology or space now have a new tool — video games.

A new NASA spacecraft is ready to tackle a grueling nine-month photo shoot of cosmic proportions to seek out more than just the stars.

AT&T Inc. is boosting its top available broadband speeds in Austin, Texas, San Antonio and St. Louis in preparation for a wider rollout.

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: SpaceShipOne may have put Mojave, Calif., on the map — but when it comes to the future of space travel, there’s more than one game in town.

Public school students in major metropolitan areas are showing improvement on test scores in mathematics compared with scores from previous years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Education.

Texas Instruments Inc. raised its fourth-quarter profit and sales outlook on Tuesday, citing an improving market for chips used in cell phones and other electronic gadgets like hard disk drives and video game consoles.

Texas Instruments is raising its fourth-quarter profit and sales outlook, citing an improving market for chips used in cell phones and other electronic gadgets.

The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health care reform.

Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers.

Google’s first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone.

There are a growing number of smartphone applications aimed at assisting medical professionals or improving personal health.

Social networking site Facebook said it has formed an advisory board comprising five Internet safety organizations to consult on issues related to online safety.

A site where dozens of prehistoric mammoths died in a landslide and flooding some 68,000 years ago has opened to the public in Waco, Texas.

We’re still far from the sci-fi dream of having robots whirring about and catering to our every need. But little by little, we’ll be sharing more of our space with robots in the next decade, as prices drop and new technology creates specialized machines that clean up spilled milk or even provide comfort for an [...]

While NASA frets over a looming hiatus in its ability to launch people into space, a commercial company is poised to unveil the first spaceship for private passenger travel.

A group of leading Internet publishers and digital marketing services have launched an online campaign to educate consumers about how they are tracked and targeted for pitches on the Web.

A former school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

People in the past were very stressed out, suggests a new study that found high amounts of a stress hormone in the hair of Peruvian individuals who lived between 550 A.D. and 1532.

When a racist image of first lady Michelle Obama surfaced from the ugliest corners of the Internet last week to top Google’s image search results, the episode shined a spotlight on the mysterious workings of search engines.

A former school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

Michael Jackson’s death thrust the singer to the top of yahoo.com Internet searches in 2009, putting an end to Britney Spears’ four-year reign and helping bump the President Barack Obama from the top 10 list.

Fourteen years ago, Mark Horvath was in crisis. The former exec was living on the streets in Hollywood, California, where for a dollar he let people take a photograph of his pet iguana, named Dog.

Naked mole rats don’t get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.

Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for co-writing “Pulp Fiction,” appears to be tweeting from a California jail, where’s he’s serving time for vehicular manslaughter.

The space shuttle Atlantis sailed down through clear skies to a Florida landing on Friday, wrapping up an 11-day mission to the International Space Station and bringing a new father down to meet his week-old daughter.

For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic.

The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a picture-perfect landing Friday morning under bright, sunny skies at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

For most of the past week, when someone typed “Michelle Obama” in the popular search engine Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady altered to resemble a monkey.

Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.

The world’s largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time and causing the first particle collisions.

Scientists are in the process of restarting a giant particle collider built to reproduce the conditions of the big bang, Europe’s CERN physics research center said Friday.

The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.

The California Energy Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to become the first state to impose energy efficiency standards for televisions. The agency estimates the move will save consumers $1 billion a year in energy costs.

Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness toward GOP gubernatorial candidates.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to blast off from Florida on Monday afternoon to haul key spare parts to prolong the life of the International Space Station.

The space shuttle Atlantis rose through a cloudy Florida sky on Monday, beginning a mission aimed at delivering tons of spare parts to the International Space Station.

To cool down sweaty troops and improve energy efficiency, the U.S. military recently began coating 900 air-conditioned tents with spray-on insulating foam.

Check out some of the technologies supported by President Barack Obama’s $3.4 billion in grants for projects designed to modernize the grid with cutting-edge innovations.

Dell is officially jumping into the smartphone market this month in a deal with China’s biggest wireless carrier, China Mobile Ltd.

After a slight reprieve in September, U.S. video game sales slumped once again in October, hurt by the economic turmoil that’s cutting into consumer spending.

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Murals found on a buried Mexican pyramid provide an unprecedented look at how the average Maya lived about 1,400 years ago.