CNN's Dan Rivers has left cyclone-ravaged Myanmar after sneaking into the country without the knowledge of the nation's secretive ruling junta. The government hunted the journalist even as it seized food aid and kept out relief agencies. "They're turning a bad situation into ... what really is criminal negligence on a massive scale," Rivers says.

The campaign for Sen. Barack Obama today announced the support of four new superdelegates -- including a previous backer of Sen. Hillary Clinton. The latest announcements narrow Clinton's lead in superdelegates to single digits. At the year's start, she led by more than 100 superdelegates.

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A Canadian train quarantined after a passenger died Thursday will soon be on its way again, Ontario's top medical officer told reporters.

Authorities said Friday they will begin digging for evidence of graves at a California ranch that once was home to the infamous "family" of convicted killer Charles Manson.

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Arkani-Hamed is only in his mid-30s, but he has already distinguished himself as one of the leading thinkers in the field of particle physics. His revolutionary ideas about the way the universe works will finally be put to the test at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider.

We've sent the card, ordered the flowers for Mother's Day -- and we may even plan to call her. But if you had to describe everything your mom means to you in a single word -- what would it be? That's the assignment these iReporters accepted. Listen to what word they chose.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Playing video games does not turn children into deranged, blood-thirsty super-killers, according to a new book by a pair of Harvard researchers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong.

SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - Young, tech-savvy South Koreans are making coupon clipping a thing of the past and turning to their mobile phones instead.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Pierre Avignon is no pirate, but he does not believe in paying for software. His computer is filled with programs like Symphony -- a free suite that he downloaded from an International Business Machines Corp website (http://symphony.lotus.com).

TORONTO (Reuters) - While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site MySpace.com.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc posted a quarterly profit on Thursday that blew past expectations as demand for its "Guitar Hero 3" and "Call of Duty 4" video games made up for a complete lack of new releases.

LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace social network will let users choose to share their public profile information, such as pictures, videos, and text, across the Web to spread its service beyond its own borders.

A new survey is monitoring a million massive stars to see if any suddenly disappear, imploding to become black holes

All too often movies make shocking science blunders, but here are a few rare gems that make a valiant effort to get it right

Storm damage has washed away Burma's main agricultural land, as its military rulers force the UN to stop shipments of emergency food

In the movie, the world froze when the "ocean conveyor belt" turned off – now scientists say they could forecast any slowdown of the crucial current

Fertility specialist Ronit Haimov-Kochman explains why she treated a 16-year-old Arab patient and why other teens are likely to follow her example

The path of the Burma cyclone was accurately predicted four days before it made landfall, but the warning did not reach the people on the ground

Experiments suggest solid iron snow may fall from two layers of clouds inside Mercury's liquid outer core

A luminous plume of ionised gas could find its way into your mouth on a future dentist's trip – although cool to touch, it is deadly to bacteria

Could infant formula made of cow's milk cause children to produce antibodies that mistakenly destroy insulin-producing cells?

Researchers know that not all body fat is equal – the worst kind is excess fat on the internal organs, but fat on hips and thighs may even be beneficial

A miniature detector could pick out magnetic rocks on Mars that might have been made by bacteria

Ancient seaweed found in an archaeological site in Chile shows that early settlers had good knowledge of local resources

The wild bird has shown great flexibility to adjust breeding patterns to match higher temperatures in the UK, but more warming could start to kill it off

Several different whale fossils show signs of decompression syndrome – the finding could revise the evolutionary history of deep diving

Blasting ships' ballast water with microwaves would remove the biological species that wreak havoc on ecosystems – but the method isn't cheap

The European Space Agency is looking for a few good men and women to spearhead a new chapter in space exploration

People with secrets to leak can now do so without being traced, thanks to internet sites that use tech tricks to hide whistleblowers' details

The Copernican principle has it that our corner of the cosmos is nothing special – now researchers say red shift can tell us if this is true

Fossilised sea creatures have been found that coated themselves in tiny diamonds created in the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs

Two dust devils towering nearly a kilometre high have appeared at the exact spot where the Phoenix lander is due to touch down in a few weeks

A global 'petaflop' supercomputing centre could provide detailed local forecasts of future climate change, say leading climate modellers

Two centuries after scientists deemed a dead specimen so outlandish it had to be a fake, the genes of the platypus have been laid bare

US reductions in sulphate pollution may have led to severe droughts in the Amazon rainforest – and with climbing CO2 levels these could get worse

A new system can calculate the positions of thousands of birds at once and could help shed light on human societies

A new study suggests that 2-year olds have a smaller vocabulary if their fathers have depression than if their mothers do

As the climate warms, frozen stores of the insecticide DDT are trickling out of Antarctic glaciers and building up in penguins, say researchers

Releasing baby cane toads, which are poisonous but normally not fatal when eaten, could teach Australia's wildlife to avoid the deadly adults

Cellphones with Bluetooth are more of a privacy threat than RFID chips, say researchers who used the system to track 10,000 people in one city

Childhood abuse seems to affect gene activity in the brain in ways that may increase the risk of suicide