Cars and planes can run on biomass. Why not trains as well?

May 26, 2012 7:18am | By Claire Lambrecht

Are social media or big data facilities more important to businesses today?

1 | May 26, 2012 6:07am | By Charlie Osborne

Called the Pacifier Activated Lullaby, the device plays music to encourage babies to suck correctly, something that's hard for preemies to do. Now available to hospitals.

May 25, 2012 4:07pm | By Janet Fang

Developer Voltaic Solaire has spent $1 million rehabilitating a century-old brownstone so it generates as much energy as it uses.

May 25, 2012 1:14pm | By Kirsten Korosec

Home Depot added a PayPal payment option to its in-store POS systems in just two months; now, other big-brand stores are doing the same.

1 | May 25, 2012 12:32pm | By Heather Clancy

Could domesticating smart technology transform the experience of aging?

1 | May 25, 2012 11:24am | By Rachel James

Advertising trial with 13 consumer brands shows potential for outdoor ads that interact with mobile phones.

May 25, 2012 10:35am | By Mari Silbey

Circumcision can reduce a man's risk for HIV in Sub Saharan Africa by up to 60%. This adult circumcision device gets the job done without surgery or severe pain.

8 | May 25, 2012 9:52am | By Audrey Quinn

When one invisibility cloak isn't enough, scientists make 25,000 and use them to trap a rainbow.

May 25, 2012 6:25am | By Rose Eveleth

PARIS -- We chat with inventor David Edwards about his collaboration with designer Philippe Starck to bring upon a feeling of drunkenness without elevating one's blood alcohol level.

3 | May 25, 2012 5:45am | By Bryan Pirolli

Pay attention to the wagging finger. And for goodness sake, use the clothesline. The sun is your friend. And another thing....

5 | May 25, 2012 3:49am | By Mark Halper

JOHANNESBURG -- A legacy project planned around the 2010 World Cup will give Soweto township its first theater -- and a cornerstone to a neighborhood revitalization effort.

May 25, 2012 3:47am | By Dave Mayers

Is this the utility pole of the future?

2 | May 25, 2012 3:05am | By Tyler Falk

Nokia and typography design group Dalton Maag have created a typeface that crosses borders and languages effortlessly.

8 | May 25, 2012 3:00am | By Beth Carter

As the company behind the Arduino open source platform, Atmel is primed to ride the "maker" market wave.

2 | May 25, 2012 3:00am | By Mary Catherine O'Connor

Data from Forrester Research and Shop.org shows that almost half of retailers are generating higher order values from shoppers using tablets than from their traditional e-commerce sites.

May 25, 2012 2:30am | By Heather Clancy

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about entrepreneurship.

May 25, 2012 12:35am | By Charlie Osborne

Cities are leading the way in the reduction of plastic bag use.

6 | May 24, 2012 9:33pm | By Tyler Falk

More Americans think that a good energy policy is to drill, baby, drill the nation's way out of rising gas prices, and fewer are supporting clean energy.

14 | May 24, 2012 8:21pm | By David Worthington

A new model of the immature immune system promises to boost the development of vaccines specifically for newborn babies, which are lacking. This'll help test vaccines before trialing them in babies.

4 | May 24, 2012 6:35pm | By Janet Fang