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General Electric is planning to open the nation's largest solar panel factory by the year 2013.

There's been a powerful earthquake off the North Central coast of Japan, near the same location of the 9.0-magnitude temblor on March 11 that set off a tsunami that pummeled cities along the coast, leaving thousands dead or missing.That's the greatest magnitude of any quake in the area since that Ma

The private rocket company SpaceX says its next rocket will be the most powerful in the world.The new rocket, called the Falcon Heavy, is designed to carry up to about twice as much weight as a NASA space shuttle can take to orbit.

Historian Michael Willrich was planning to write a book about civil liberties in the aftermath of Sept. 11 when he stumbled across an article from The New York Times archives.

The operator of Japan's besieged nuclear power plant plans to intentionally release 10,000 tons of radioactive water into the ocean.Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Google is getting a new CEO: Larry Page — who who co-founded Google as a young Stanford postgraduate and was briefly CEO before handing the position to the more experienced manager, Eric Schmidt — is now taking the reins.

An Urbana hospital will use its CT scan equipment to take a closer look at a roughly 1,900-year-old mummy that belongs to the University of Illinois.Carle Foundation Hospital scanned the Egyptian mummy in 1990 and found that it was a child with its organs still intact.But the hospital says the scan