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The results from Iowa suggest what has been clear for months: Republicans remain divided about their presidential choices.

The Islamist group Hamas is known to use tunnels on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to smuggle weapons and other goods into the territory. Christian Science Monitor reporter Dan Murphy, who has spent time with workers who dig the tunnels, says the stretch of the border between Gaza and Egypt is dotted with these "rudimentary" tunnels.

This week, Comic-Con International, the largest comics and pop culture convention in the world, begins at the San Diego Convention Center. Back in the early 70s, Comic-Con was a much more focused and intimate affair, started by San Diegans who love comic books and science fiction. We'll talk with three of the original founders of Comic-Con.

The dispute started when the federal government released a report that left the impression that most of the oil was no longer a problem. Some scientists couldn't believe what they were reading. They say between 70 and 79 percent of the oil remains in the Gulf of Mexico.

San Diego is a hotspot for biotechnology. The life science cluster in San Diego has an annual economic impact of more than $9 billion in the region. As 2008 BIO International Convention gets underwa

Scientists have unearthed a tool kit for making paint in a South African cave. At 100,000 years old, it looks to be the oldest evidence of paint-making to date, and indicates higher-order thinking. "I think we're going to find that these early people were smarter than we think," an anthropologist says.

The piggy-nosed, coldblooded animals are neither rats nor moles. But scientists hope the naked mole rat's newly sequenced genome may offer insights into not only aging but also cancer and other diseases.

Millions of international students get an education in the U.S. and then take their knowledge and skills home. The Obama administration says it wants to keep them here.

Scientists can now bargain shop for expensive lab equipment in San Diego.

UC San Diego is now home to the world's largest surgery simulation lab. It's part of a new $70 million state-of-the-art medical training center on the La Jolla campus.