The man who launched the state of Utah's technology sector, Ray Noorda, died after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's at 12:30 p.m. Monday at his Orem home. He was 82 years old.

The 21st IAEA Fusion Energy Conference will be held from Oct. 16 to 21 in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, local government sources announced on Tuesday.

The first symposium on robot technology sponsored by China, Japan and Korea kicked off in Beijing on Monday, reported the overseas edition of People's daily on Tuesday.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the imminent arrival of its first three 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray movies.

Web search giant Google. Inc on Monday announced a deal to purchase online video site YouTube for 1.65 billion U.S. dollars in stock, sealing a deal rumored for days.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided definitive evidence for a long-predicted theory that planets form from debris disks around stars, astronomers said on Monday.

Edmund S. Phelps, Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, USA has won the Nobel Prize or Swedish Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2006 for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy.

China's first cooking robot, named AIC-AICookingrobot, has been invented by scientists in Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province.

NASA scientists have detected a gigantic sonic boom and a "musical" of deep sounds generated by a supermassive black hole in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.

Panamanian Health Minister Camilo Alleyne said on Friday that toxins may have been the cause of the mystery illness, which had killed 18 Panamanians and affected another 28 in the country.