Science and Technology

Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them. That's according to a study published Thursday that found a spike in U.S. emergency room treatment for these mostly minor injuries. Read more here.

A special partnership that includes a robot is helping to bring technology skills education to an elementary school. It's part of a program aimed at getting kids ready for the real world. Read more here.

Ford has tapped McDonald's to help it turn coffee parts into car parts. Starting this year, Ford is incorporating coffee chaff — coffee bean skin that comes off during the roasting process — into the plastic headlamp housing used in some cars. It's asked McDonald's, which doesn't roast its own...

Those Black Friday and Cyber Monday super sales are not only a boon for your bank account, but may also reap serious rewards for cyber criminals intent on causing harm, according to the FBI. Read more here.

There’s a powerful new player watching what you buy so it can tailor product offerings for you: the bank behind your credit or debit card. Read more here.

Marc Goldstein’s computer hobby has led to a pretty thrifty nonprofit for students in need. Read more here.

This year's Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, as fewer people hit the stores and shoppers rang up $7.4 billion in transactions from their phones, computers and tablets. Read more here.

The 18,000-year-old body of a near perfectly preserved puppy has left scientists puzzled. Extensive DNA tests have so far been unable to show whether the animal was a dog or a wolf. Read more here.

The home and lab of a Tacony man who gained recognition as a solar power pioneer at the start of the 20th century has been added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, because of the persistence of a college student who embraced a class assignment.

The Saudi government recruited two Twitter employees to get personal account information of their critics, prosecutors said Wednesday. Read more here.