The food industry is one of the great silent polluters on the planet. Whilst oil, chemical and transport industries get blamed for destroying the planet, our ever-growing need for more food is destroying our planet at a far great rate than people think.

  Researchers at the University of Oxford have found a way rewrite the memories of fruit flies, causing them to respond to experiences they've never actually had.

  Cyber criminal kingpins can make profits of more than $850,000 by pushing fake antivirus software, according to research from Symantec .

  The founders of Skype are planning a new venture only days after the UK arm of their web TV venture, Joost, went into administration.

  Rather than clinging to the back of the bicycle as the child wobbles along, parents can simply stand back and watch them pedal off on their own.

  The research makes great strides in addressing a major practical challenge in the development of stem-cell-based medicine.

  A U.K. study shows what most of us already knew: that copper bracelets, aside from turning your skin green, aren't really any good for anything. Neither, said the study, are magnetic wrist straps.

  NASA has rescheduled to Tuesday, Oct. 20, the rollout of the Ares I-X rocket to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

  Verizon is pulling put all stops with its new Android commercial, which highights what the iPhone doesn't do, in an ad that tells you exactly what the iPhone doesn't do, like "iDon't allow open development, i'Dont run simultaneous apps." And at the end of the ad: "Everything iDon't, Droid Does."

  ATLANTA - A Seattle woman tweets from an airport that JetBlue's birthday present to her was forgetting to put her wheelchair on her flight.

  Microsoft releases Windows 7 to the world on Thursday as the US software giant tries to regain its stride after an embarrassing stumble with the previous generation operating system Vista.

  EURussia-Space Station,0119 Cargo craft docks with space station Eds: APNewsNow.

  PALMERS Green computer hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition has been put on hold while new evidence is considered.

  This image provided by NASA shows an image taken shortly after the Centaur rocket impacted the moon taken from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite Friday morning Oct.