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J. Lamar Worzel, the Columbia University physicist who used the emerging science of acoustics to explore the ocean floor and help U.S. submarines evade and track enemies, has died. He...

Cacao, the staple of Valentine's Day chocolates and hot drinks by a cozy winter fire, made it to the American Southwest by 1000, centuries earlier than researchers had believed. In...

Fifteen years after staging the most successful World Cup in history, the United States is bidding to once again bring the world's biggest single-sport event to these shores. On Monday,...

The parent of European aircraftmaker Airbus SAS said it would not enter the competition to build a replacement for Air Force One, a move that all but leaves Chicago-based Boeing...

The coveted post-Super Bowl time slot can be the promotional springboard TV producers dream of, or it can be the beginning of the end. Here's a look at the series...

A new skirmish in the West Coast airfare wars has erupted in Orange County, Calif., where upstart Virgin America and low-cost behemoth Southwest Airlines are battling for travelers with some...

Whenever there's an overwhelming favorite in the Oscar race, you can be sure, human nature being human nature, and the media being the media -- an institution that likes to...

Serena Williams was unforgiving Saturday, smothering Dinara Safina with a barrage of high-kicking serves, line-tickling forehands and supreme calmness that left the 22-year-old Russian with nothing to do but break...

Judges at the California State Fair wine competition scored poorly at giving the same wine an identical rating when they tasted it multiple times in a blind tasting. That was...

The first set took 75 minutes, and that was shorter than the third set, which lasted 79 minutes. And it was still early in Friday's Australian Open men's semifinal match...