Rafal Rogoza
The Santa Cruz Police Department is in mourning after two officers on the force were shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman who was later gunned down by police, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.
Researchers working on battery technology have created a battery that can be stretched three times its normal size and still maintain power, the BBC reports.
Researchers at NASA say the Mars Curiosity rover has successfully placed Martian space rocks into its internal lab for analysis to search for clues of water.
A gas explosion set a hot air balloon a blaze moments before it crashed in Egypt on Thursday killing the 19 people who were aboard, Reuters reports.
Iranian government officials have criticized the Oscar winning film "Argo" as a piece of American propaganda used as a tool to smear the image of the Iranian Revolution, but young Iranian film goers are more open toward the film's subject matter.
With the sequester deadline only four days away, President Obama will be visiting Virginia on Tuesday to pressure Republicans to strike a compromise that would prevent the automatic $85 billion cut in federal spending that White House officials say will have severe consequences to everyday Americans.
One of Pluto's moons may be named Vulcan after thousands of Star Trek fans voted in a public poll to name the moon after the home planet of one of the science fiction show's iconic characters.
Researchers conducting a theoretical study say it's easier to detect oxygen on planets orbiting dying stars adding that scientists should be able to find such potentially life sustaining planets within the next decade.
Low income families that need help feeding their beloved pets can now receive pet food in the mail free of charge.
It has been nearly a month since a little known YouTube personality named Filthy Frank released his "Do the Harlem Shake" video on the DizastaMusic YouTube Channel and started a global trend with no end in sight
The first ever satellite designed to monitor space for asteroids was launched into orbit Monday aboard an Indian rocket.
Things could be getting much more complicated for European Union officials struggling to recover from the financial crisis as one of the political union's largest member states is in the middle of a tight election with early polls showing a split government.
A snowstorm of historic proportions is rolling through the southern Plain states leaving behind up to 12-inches of snow in some areas and forcing the closure of up to 400-miles of highway, according to AccuWeather.
The belly putt could be a thing of the past for golfers after the sport's governing body proposed to ban it but now PGA Tour officials say they want to keep it.
Tiger Woods was spotted with his former wife, Elin Nordegren, Saturday at a children's sporting event in Florida.
