Science and Tech

Typically a standard garnish for hamburgers, sandwiches and salads, tomatoes have become a scarce luxury.

Three out of five round, field-grown tomatoes come from Florida during the winter, but an unexpected and prolonged cold spell that froze Florida's crops in mid-January wiped out most of the state's tomato crop.

After a few weeks of product columns I am behind in your questions. Let's get right to them.

Educational DVDs aimed at teaching language to very young children cannot replace human interaction -- the most effective way that babies learn, according to a University of California, Riverside study.

The search for an effective weapon against armies of destructive bark beetles chewing through forests across the West has taken an unusual turn through rock music and into, of all places, the voice box of conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

In science fiction, characters often turn to a portable universal translator to help bridge the linguistic divide, either among humans or with aliens.

One of the most interesting things about the computing world these days is the incredible shrinking price of color printers.

When 11 wind turbines stood idle about a month ago, some in the Minnesota wind industry worried that the machines were generating something other than power -- bad publicity.

Scientists, such as Dan Chure, refer to sauropods, the massive, long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs, as "headless wonders."

The now infamous "Webcam spycam case" near Philadelphia is gaining speed and is becoming more and more interesting as privacy experts are weighing in to debate the use of Webcams on school computers.

Jeremy Oluma's driving so infuriated another motorist that the guy got out of his stopped truck, reached into Oluma's open window and slapped him in the face. Yet after Oluma reported that spasm of road rage to police, he now has to prove he's mentally stable enough to drive.