It's one thing to declare independence, but quite another to preserve the aging document from the ravages of time.

The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 4, in Monaco. Here's how to follow the three-week bike race using streaming audio and video, Twitter, Google Earth and other online tools.

Penguins, famous for the lengths they go to to protect their eggs and rear their young, may not be the most supportive couples around. When one member of a penguin couple is handicapped, the other doesn't step in to pick up the slack.

Delft University is back, ready to take a fifth consecutive title with Nuna 5.

Federal judge throws out Lori Drew's three misdemeanor convictions.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun producing high-resolution and wide-angle images of the moon's surface.

Sticking a battery and a motor in the Mini makes it a sweet little EV we could live with if it weren't for the stratospheric price tag.

Regina Dugan is the new top gun of the Pentagon research arm.

A tiny drone looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. It could inspire other bio-imitative mini spies.

Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use.

Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one. Until now.

When those great balls of fire appear in the sky above you this Independence Day, grab some impressive shots — no matter what kind of camera you own. Follow this advice from Wired’s How-to Wiki.

The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site into well-behaved consumers — even amid a deluge of account-deletion requests.

We fill up at what's called the first gas station to sell gas blended with cellulosic ethanol.

Lawmakers want to know what's going to happen to traveler data after the best known airline fast-lane company shut down last week, while holding onto sensitive data of 165,000 fliers.

Give your ears a blast of cool summertime music. Other featured acts in this week's podcast include Indian Jewelry, Iggy Pop and Cursive.

Securities regulators are investigating potential insider trading of Global Gaming Factory before it announced plans to purchase The Pirate Bay for $7.7 million. Yo ho ho.

Bing grabs a percentage point in the search wars, stealing a sliver of the search market from Google. Is it the beginning of a long march or just the product of an ad campaign?

The king is dead, long live the king: Michael Jackson becomes the first artist to sell over a million downloads in a single week. It's a reminder of his dominance in the '80s, a heyday the music industry isn't likely to see again.

Some salamanders can regrow limbs without cells reverting all the way back to embryonic-like stem cells. Instead, the cells take a smaller step back to slightly less mature versions of themselves before growing into the many kinds of mature cells in the limb.