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Lines continue to circle city blocks in America as people line up to get iPhone 3Gs at Apple Stores around the country. Since Apple started opening dedicated retail stores in 2001, however, there have been none in China. That drought ended on Saturday as the first Chinese Apple retail store opened in Beijing’s Sanlitun Village.

A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.

Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner.

On Friday Intel celebrated its 40th anniversary, and as part of that, they unveiled the World Mural Project. The project is a Web-based digital art piece that includes visual and written contents from the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network, which stretches around the world. More than 500 young people in 21 countries participated in the project, with approximately 300 Intel volunteers at 70 Clubhouses around the world working with them.

Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be disabling conditions, and both present clinically with significant mood and psychotic symptoms. These two illnesses also share genetic variants that might be involved in the predisposition to both disorders.

Commercial venues are very aware of the effects that the environment – in this case, music – can have on in-store traffic flow, sales volumes, product choices, and consumer time spent in the immediate vicinity. A study of the effects of music levels on drinking in a bar setting has found that loud music leads to more drinking in less time.

A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall.

A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.

New evidence that the brain regions responsible for vision are capable of adapting in adults offers new hope for those with an untreated condition commonly known as lazy eye. Also called amblyopia, the condition is the most prevalent cause of visual impairment in a single eye, affecting about six million people in the United States alone.

Free access at AT&T hotspots for iPhone users was first announced at the beginning of May, but it was then disabled, possibly because of the hack mentioned above which let non-iPhone ... and even PC users ... gain access. But apparently it's back again. The assumption is they somehow really fixed it (or broke it, depending on your point of view) this time.

A group of 16 evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science convened at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg (Austria) on July 11-13 to discuss the current status of evolutionary theory, and in particular a series of exciting empirical and conceptual advances that have marked the field in recent times.

A two-year study led by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) reveals that low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets may be just as safe and effective in achieving weight loss as the standard, medically prescribed low-fat diet, according to a new study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under fire for apparently discounting the impact of climate change, on Thursday said global warming poses real risk to human health and the American way of life.

Back in May, the scientists behind the Hubble Space Telescope announced the birth of a bouncing Baby Red Spot in Jupiter’s turbulent clouds. Unfortunately, some creatures eat their young: The latest Hubble imagery reveals that the Baby Red Spot is being gobbled up by the planet’s larger and older Great Red Spot.

Announced in March , it's finally here. TiVo is set to release a software upgrade that will let users access YouTube videos on their broadband-connected TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD DVRs.

On Thursday Amazon.com is set to launch Amazon Video on Demand, a new online video store that will sell TV episodes and movies. Wait, don't they already have Amazon Unbox? Well, yeah, they do.

A group of geneticists, coordinated by Guido Barbujani and David Caramelli of the Universities of Ferrara and Florence, shows that a Cro-Magnoid individual who lived in Southern Italy 28,000 years ago was a ...

Global warming is likely to increase the proportion of the population affected by kidney stones by expanding the higher-risk region known as the "kidney-stone belt" into neighboring states, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Dallas have found.