Yale announced Friday that the names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 people affiliated with the university had been publicly viewable on Google for the past 10 months.

A nanopore membrane creates faster, surer cultures for everything from hospital diagnostics to water-quality checks. A new type of diagnostic could let hospital laboratories identify the presence of dangerous bacteria up to five times faster than conventional methods. The test could reduce unnecessary antibiotic use and provide more reliable water-quality test results. The key to the process is a membrane with nanosized pores, which enable rapid growth and identification of live organisms.

Confirming years of warnings from government and private security experts, a top Homeland Security official has acknowledged that computer hardware and software is already being imported to the U.S. preloaded with spyware and security-sabotaging components.

Study called "Project Cyber Dawn" outlines ways to damage Libya's oil infrastructure and rob Qaddafi regime of revenue

The United States is warning that a cyber attack — presumably if it is devastating enough — could result in real-world military retaliation.

Satellite images of nighttime lights could help economists model GDP in regions where it is poorly reported

But skepticism of system remains

Move over, Web surfing. Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes.

As a young man, aspiring opera singer Norio Ohga wrote to Sony to complain about the quality of its tape recorders. That move changed the course of his life, as the company promptly recruited the man whose love of music would shape the development of the compact disc and transform the Japanese electronics maker into a global software and entertainment empire.

A slightly larger helmet with more foam padding would better protect soldiers and Marines from traumatic brain injury, researchers find. The Department of Defense says that more than 130,000 military personnel have suffered such injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Security experts want computers to monitor their health, much like humans do.

If you've never mastered the game of Operation, maybe a robot could help. A Johns Hopkins roboticist shows how it's done in a video that contrasts very high- and very low-tech approaches.

CDC study: More than quarter now have wireless phones alone and no "landlines"; Time to cut the cord?

As 20-year-old Hailey Daniswicz flexes muscles in her thigh, electrodes attached to her leg instruct a computer avatar to flex its knee and ankle -- parts of Hailey's leg that have been missing since 2005.

Let's face it: Dragging a bunch of power cords around can be a nuisance.