After the event yesterday we got some hands-on time with the new iPods. We'll be sharing our thoughts on the new devices, and the other announcements, later today. In the meantime, here are our hands-on shots of all the new iPods.

Ask experts why bedbugs disappeared for 40 years, why they came back, why they don't spread disease, and you hear one answer: “Good question.”

After months of speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally revealed the new and improved Apple TV today. It has a lot going for it, including a low $99 price, redesigned hardware, and access to streaming media from the iTunes store.

A Freedom of Information request to the BBC has revealed that streaming to Apple's mobile devices is currently significantly more popular than iPlayer on Google Android devices.

When it comes to DIY stuff for geeks much of it tends to center around science fiction films or video games and the weapons that the heroes and villains in the flicks use. Today we find a replica weapon made that is a version of one of the most iconic weapons ever to hit the big screen, the lightsaber.

The Google Lunar X Prize Lego Mindstorms Challenge competition seeks innovative robot designs to explore a Lego lunar surface.

The Maya ancients who built the ruins of Kiuic (kee-week) here fled those doorways in a hurry, an international archaeology team now realizes. Left behind may be frozen-in-time clues to the fabled collapse of their civilization.

We knew it had to be coming soon. Apple is set to hold a special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco next Wednesday, September 1. If the time of year doesn't give it away, perhaps the image on the invitation sent out to some bloggers will.

The UK has turned itself into a hot-bed of development activity for renewable energy technologies such as tidal, wind and solar power generation.

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Scientists have trained mice to recognize the whiff of bird flu in duck poop, hinting at a new line of defense in the fight against epidemics.