Eureka!: An ancestor's tale held long in the tooth

A couple of 4-million-year-old Ethiopian teeth are changing the way scientists view the evolution and habitat of mankind's earliest known relative.

Statistics experts reject assertions of global cooling

WASHINGTON - The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts.

Q & A: A new Verizon email policy; an old wireless router

Q: Verizon sent me an e-mail saying I need to change my mail settings. So instead of asking customers first, they make them do extra work.

A: Tweaking Internet settings is no fun, but I can't agree with this reader. When it comes to e-mail security, the customer isn't always right and is sometimes irrelevant.

User Friendly: The obsolete key

One icy morning Leslie Hilliard Strong slipped under a passenger car of the Long Island Railroad's commuter train from Merrick to Manhattan. I know. He was my grandfather.

With poor planning, digital cable TV still stuck inside the box

Television as millions of Americans have known it for decades is undergoing a radical change as it shifts to a new digital system.

No, you're not watching a rerun of the digital-TV transition that ended analog over-the-air broadcasts in June. This time, cable subscribers - the vast majority of U.S. viewers - have to make the shift.

Eureka!: Why the moon is no longer a dry topic

Don't pack your bags yet.

There may be water on the moon, but not nearly enough to sustain human life.

For every ton of moon rock, there's about 32 ounces of water, according to the most recent scientific information.

User Friendly: The plural of data

"Mr. Finley, what's the plural of data?"