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Apple has managed to significantly cut the thickness and weight of iPad 2 by trimming the dimensions of several key components, most notably the battery, according to a new report by IHS iSuppli.

The United States is playing a key role in support of Japan's aid, search, and rescue efforts.

Rapper Nate Dogg died Tuesday. He was 41. The cause of death is not yet known, but Nate Dogg, whose real name was Nathaniel D. Hale, had suffered strokes in 2007 and 2008 according to People.com.

The US tops France as the world's largest wine-consuming nation in 2010 owing to an increasing interest in wine and food lifestyle as well as its rising population.

The damage to California from last week’s tsunami is expected to exceed $50 million.

Japanese and Japanese-Americans across the U.S. are mobilizing to send help to their homeland after the unspeakable damage wreaked by one of the worst earthquakes and tsunamis in history.

Nuclear power will continue to be a part of U.S. plans for power generation even as a nuclear crisis unfolds in Japan in which authorities are trying their best to prevent a meltdown at a plant on the nation's eastern coastline, a top official said on Tuesday.

Alexandra Juhasz, a professor of media studies from Pitzer College, has worked on a video text book where the instruction is imparted through a combination of text and a series of Youtube videos.

A survey among state health departments finds that most American states are ill-prepared to cope with a nuclear radiation emergency should it arise.

Researchers have developed a new tool called fossil seismograph that helps better predicting of future earthquakes by studying the earthquakes of the ancient past.

Seven out of the top ten positions in a ranking of global universities by Times Higher Education according to their reputation and perception among academics were bagged by universities in the U.S., with Harvard emerging on top.

Assistance in the form of food and equipment has started to arrive in earthquake-and tsunami-battered Japan from the U.S. Search and rescue teams are expected to reach Japan by tomorrow.

Volcanic eruptions are usually associated with Hawaii, but they are as great a danger -- perhaps more so -- in the continental U.S.

Five people have been swept out to sea after tsunami-created waves of up to eight-foot high crashed onto the shore of Crescent City, California, a small fishing village near the Oregon border.

California appears to be the region of the U.S. that has been hardest hit by the tsunami generated by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan.

Waves generated by the huge tsunami/earthquake more than five thousand miles away in Japan have hit the coast of northern California, with two-to-five foot waves washing over local beaches, according to the National Weather Service.

An exclusive high school graduation celebration at Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom in Florida will come to an end, as the theme park is pulling the plug on the annual event after 2011.

As the Tsunami warnings being issued the preparation for Tsunami has become equally important. Here are few methods and sources to go about it.

The initial waves of a tsunami generated by a huge Japanese earthquake have hit the U.S. mainland along the Oregon coast, according to Associated Press.

A tsunami warning has been issued for the central and northern coasts of California and Oregon, the National Weather Service said.