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The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority has used smart meters and analytics to quickly identify problems such as water main breaks.

Not long after Jupiter formed, it got pulled slowly toward the sun, carried on currents of swirling gas. Saturn also got pulled in, and when the two giant planets came close enough to each other, their fates became linked. Their sun-bound death spiral came to a halt when Jupiter was about where Mars is now; then the pair turned and moved away from the sun. The researchers who developed this model of the early solar system call it the "Grand Tack," a reference to the sailing maneuver.

The new DuPont Fabros data center in Santa Clara, Calif., will likely house Apple's new family of cloud-computing services.

The second dual screen smartphone, the S2, will debut later this year from Sony.

NJIT Professor Atam Dhawan predicts that point-of-health solutions, optical imaging, and other technologies will drive medical advances over the next few years.

Dave Quiring Jr. inherited Quiring Monuments from his father 43 years ago. He points to the QR codes he has attached to the gravestones of his father and mother at their family plot in Seattle's Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

A satellite image shows a field of what may be buried pyramid sites in Egypt.

Key-pattern analysis could give rise to a new generation of passwords.

Residents of Joplin, Mo. salvage items from their home on Monday, a day after a devastating tornado struck the town. University of Oklahoma meteorologist Howie Bluestein says this could be be the last major tornado of the season, or "it could continue to be crazy."

A recent view of Earth from the International Space Station.