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A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Ross Lovegrove is a veritable pioneer of industrial design. His designs, like the acclaimed "Solar Tree" are both striking and functional, and above all, influenced by Mother Nature's perfect designs.
Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
This year's Summer Olympic Games have been seen as China's coming-out party, destined to be as significant for the host country as the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were for Japan.
The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again -- online.
A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Ross Lovegrove is a veritable pioneer of industrial design. His designs, like the acclaimed "Solar Tree" are both striking and functional, and above all, influenced by Mother Nature's perfect designs.
Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
This year's Summer Olympic Games have been seen as China's coming-out party, destined to be as significant for the host country as the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were for Japan.
The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again -- online.
When Coke-bottle glasses just won't cut it for safe driving, a futuristic windshield might do the trick.
For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquillity with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines.
Blake Jones' business plan for his company, Namaste Solar Electric, was so unusual, he confounded a lot of business experts.
A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.
A contract to build what is being called the nation's first offshore field of wind turbines was announced Monday by a Delaware utility and a firm that will build the generators off the Atlantic coast.
For the past few years, Dan Redmond has been on a mission to change the way his household uses energy.
A group of experts from around the world will Thursday hold a first of its kind conference on global catastrophic risks.
Gone are the days when it was enough to simply Google your name to find out what people were saying about you in cyberspace.
No broadcaster shows how fast and far digital media has come than the U.S. network NBC Universal's plans for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In the 2006 Turin Winter Games, NBC streamed only one hockey game online. This year, NBC will stream 2,200 hours of 25 events live, with nearly the entire 4,000 hours of the games available on archive for North American Internet users.
A one-word blog post from a cell phone helped to free an American student from an Egyptian jail, but it took the signatures and support of thousands of activists to get his translator out.
From a desert outpost northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.
NBC is using the Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin August 8.
Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative.
The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro -- $1.59 -- as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs -- to identify criminals using text messages.
Straw and clay are the building materials of choice for a few dozen ecologically minded people in the eastern German village of Sieben Linden.
You probably arrived here via a hyperlink. We hardly think about it now, but the hyperlink is a neat trick. It turns a word in a browser into an object that leads to more information.
Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the past five years could have their scores thrown out.
As American Idol's success has shown, people love to vote -- and to see how others have voted.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill Monday outlawing cyberbullying, just miles from where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide nearly two years ago after being harassed on the Internet.
This month, Just Imagine took a look at cities, the ways in which they might change in the future and what this might mean for the people who live in them.
Wouldn't it be great if you could become invisible whenever you wanted? Harry Potter can do it, and so could certain groups of futuristic creatures on "Star Trek."
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
Cathy Campbell did a double-take and tapped the brakes when she spotted what appeared to be a pointy-edged box lying in the road just ahead.
The online hangout Facebook is getting more serious about grammar.
A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions -- potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.
Military binoculars may soon get information directly from the brains of the soldiers using them.
The group controlling Internet domain names may soon decide whether to relax naming rules and potentially open up a virtual domain name gold rush.
Anti-poverty group Oxfam International on Tuesday urged the world's poorest nations to think twice before jumping on a biofuel boom that could drive farmers off their land and hit food supplies.
China's new found wealth has seen an explosion in the number of new developments springing up in what is, arguably, the world's biggest building boom.
Consider it among the unintended consequences of the national housing bust: Homeowners radiating every shade of anxiety after repeatedly visiting online real estate sites that conjure up instant home value estimates.
Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.
In the second grade, James Silva didn't just play "Mario" and "Zelda" on his Nintendo but drew pictures of new levels and cooked up ideas for future games.
True or False: In the 1890's electric cars out sold gasoline powered versions ten to one.
On any given day amidst a backdrop of buses, buildings, cars and construction sites, Richard Reynolds can be found bent over pulling weeds, planting flowers or maybe even trimming some shrubs.
With the price topping $4-a-gallon everybody wants to save gas, but depending on those miles-per-gallon ratings may be misleading.
Very soon, the most common phrase transiting through mobile phone networks will no longer be "Where are you?" but "I see you."
Google Inc.'s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience.
The Hawk-Eye line-calling system used at Wimbledon may not be quite as accurate as some people think, according to a new scientific study.
It's no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they're supposed to be working.
When Shaun Yandell proposed to his longtime girlfriend Gina Marasco on the doorstep of their new home in the sunny suburb of Elk Grove, California, four years ago, he never imagined things would get this bad. But they did, and it happened almost overnight.
When Shaun Yandell proposed to his long-time girlfriend Gina Marasco on the doorstep of their new home in the sunny suburb of Elk Grove, California, four years ago, he never imagined things would get this bad. But they did, and it happened almost overnight.
As many surveys have suggested, fear of public speaking is one of our strongest anxieties, often ranking above the fear of dying.
Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades ago.
Yahoo!'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, prompting the Internet pioneer to hire online search leader Google Inc. to handle some of its advertising sales.
Search engine rivals Google and Yahoo! announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo!'s search results and on some of its Web sites in the United States and Canada.
Yahoo!'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, prompting the Internet pioneer to hire online search leader Google Inc. to handle some of its advertising sales.
Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design.
Ever wonder whether you'd be better off working some place else?
Shamita Naidoo said she often wonders whether anyone really ever sees her. She also wonders the same thing about the hundreds of people living around her, in tiny tin shacks perched underneath gum trees on a nearby hill.
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday.
The shoe phone on TV's "Get Smart" wasn't just a sneaky spy gadget, it was a technological marvel: a wireless, portable telephone that could be used anywhere -- though it did require a dime to make a call.
Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering Internet viewers the lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former President Clinton -- for $1.99 a pop.
They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo.
Imagine a magic scroll, one that contains a myriad of stories and tells you a different one every night. One that fetches you the morning news, generates customized crossword-puzzles, keeps an eye on your favorite authors and an ear on the local grapevine. Imagine a living, breathing kiosk of brain-candy and a library of literature that's easy to read and rolls right up into the palm of your hand.
True of False: America's paper bag consumption uses 14 million trees a year.
Jaime Lerner, the former maverick mayor of Curitiba in South Brazil, has energy, passion and steely determination that started nothing short of an urban revolution.
When Oklahoma City firefighters received a report that a body had been buried in a shallow grave at Lake Overholser, they consulted detailed topographical maps from the field as they pinpointed where to look.
Majora Carter, the founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, is a passionate advocate of environmental justice. Her organization promotes green-collar jobs and sustainable development as a route out of poverty and to create stronger, healthier and greener communities.
"If power plants, waste handling, chemical plants and transport systems were located in wealthy areas as quickly and easily as in poor areas, we would have had a clean, green economy decades ago." -- Majora Carter, Powershift 2007
Tourists overwhelmed by the mind-boggling size of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, will now be able to plan their tour with the help of a 3D Google Earth map created by The Walt Disney Co.
An American student who used a microblog site to free himself from an Egyptian jail is harnessing the Web's power again -- this time to demand the release of his translator.
The war in Iraq is creating a major -- and perhaps deadly -- shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the U.S.
An American student who used a microblog site to free himself from an Egyptian jail is harnessing the Web's power again -- this time to demand the release of his translator.
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
Wayne Gerdes is a man on a mission. He wants to end our wasteful ways, and that became plain as day to me from the moment I met him.
When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal.
The U.S. Navy lags well behind the Air Force in the development of armed drones -- the unmanned aircraft now used increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan -- insisting that its "Top Gun" fighter pilots are still smarter, better and more flexible in combat.
Steve Yohanan loved having a cat around while he worked at home, enjoying how she put her head against his hand or purred in his lap. After his allergies acted up and he had to give the cat away, he missed the touch interaction he had with her and started thinking about how he could study these emotional responses to touch.
Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small, it can be seen only through a microscope.
Steve Yohanan loved having a cat around while he worked at home, enjoying how she put her head against his hand or purred in his lap. After his allergies acted up and he had to give the cat away, he missed the touch interaction he had with her and started thinking about how he could study these emotional responses to touch.
When Martin Barbre got his first look three years ago at a system that would drive his tractor for him, he didn't buy the device -- or the premise that it would cut costs on his farm.
Way back in 1888, Kodak popularized the hobby of snapshot photography with its famous slogan: "You press the button, we do the rest."
Its heat powers the solar system. Its light makes life on Earth possible. Its gravitational pull keeps planets in orbit around it.
"Attracted by your gravity, your body's so compact / Pulling me inward, prepare for close contact," Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher sings in his song about a deep-space object known as a black hole.
Thirty-eight people were charged Monday with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from unsuspecting Internet users as part of a global crime ring.
Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows.
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