The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said the minimum extent of 4.13 million sq km (1.59 million sq miles) was reached on 16 September.

International drug company Merck has halted trials on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising in the fight against Aids.

Every year turtles come and lay eggs, most within a five-day period.  Here are some awesome pictures.

Google Inc. is in early talks to join a group looking to lay a high-speed, trans- Pacific undersea cable that could potentially lead to the Internet company becoming an investor in the project, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.

A NASA spacecraft found seven possible cave entrances on Mars, triggering interest in hunting for other caverns that might be hiding life on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Friday.

A federal judge was driven to rhyme after receiving a hard-boiled egg in the mail from a prison inmate protesting his diet. U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead reached for Dr. Seuss’ "Green Eggs and Ham" for inspiration after getting the egg from inmate Charles Jay Wolff.

September has not been a good month for Microsoft. The bad news began when the software giant’s proposal for making its Open XML file format a new global standard was soundly rejected in the first round of voting at ISO, the International Organization for Standardization.

As debate over the Patent Reform Act of 2007 moves from the House, which passed a bill on September 7, to the Senate, small tech companies and individual inventors descended on senators to voice their opposition.

In a blatant, if rather clever PR stunt, the US based mobile phone retailer, YouNeverCall has offered a prize for the first mobile phone call to be made from the moon. Their announcement follows the decision by Google to support the X-Prize foundation’s US$30 million in prizes for the first private vehicle to be landed […]