Architecture

A whistleblower group asks the Green Buildings Council to hold back LEED certification for buildings containing materials made from coal waste.

2 | January 19, 2011 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

Nvidia plans to build high-performance ARM-based CPU cores, designed to support products as diverse as computers, servers, workstations and supercomputers.

1 | January 5, 2011 1:26pm | By Andrew Nusca

The theory is that technologies like the Green Power Processor (GPP) will facilitate communications and enable smart devices that can save energy.

January 5, 2011 3:47am | By Larry Dignan

Researchers have figured out how to turn stem cells into functioning intestinal tissue.

1 | December 13, 2010 10:02am | By Boonsri Dickinson

U.S. News & World Report named the urban planner as one of the top 50 careers of 2011, forecasting "strong growth" for the position in the next decade.

6 | December 13, 2010 6:30am | By Andrew Nusca

New research suggests a bird-shaped airplane -- with angled wings and a fatter body -- would make the modern plane more fuel efficient.

14 | December 9, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

The U.S. Department of Energy will award $21 million in technical assistance for reducing energy used by commercial buildings.

1 | December 8, 2010 8:49am | By Andrew Nusca

A chat with Mark Barnell, one of the men behind the DoD's powerful new Condor Cluster, a supercomputer built from 1760 gaming consoles, about the PlayStation 3, distributed computing and the...

2 | December 3, 2010 2:00pm | By John Herrman

Contributor Ryan Potvin attends this year's GreenBuild Expo in Chicago and outlines three reasons why he thinks "Generation Green" will finally succeed.

1 | December 1, 2010 8:22am | By Ryan Potvin

The political fallout from Wikileaks' release of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables will steal countless headlines over the coming weeks. But what about Siprnet, the secret government...

16 | November 29, 2010 4:30pm | By John Herrman

Architects with strong spatial skills may fail to anticipate the difficulties of normal people in navigating the design of their buildings, cognitive scientists say.

6 | November 24, 2010 8:00am | By Andrew Nusca

NASA hopes to revive a stalled technology, bringing the cost of space travel dramatically lower.

17 | November 2, 2010 11:00am | By John Herrman

LED lighting firm Cree added color rendering index options to its XLamp line of LED bulbs, bringing improved color accuracy to energy-efficient bulbs.

November 1, 2010 7:53am | By Andrew Nusca

Portland, Maine, may play second fiddle to Oregon's Portland when it comes to large-scale sustainability initiatives, but last week, its city council approved an $11 million bond for energy...

October 27, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Forget Intel and AMD: a little known family of chips is finally drawing China into the processor wars.

4 | October 22, 2010 11:20am | By John Herrman

Jose Gomez-Marquez thinks some of the best inventions are the most simple. He's making vaccines and other drugs for the developing world.

1 | October 21, 2010 4:28am | By Boonsri Dickinson

Nearly four years after the GreenMobile project received federal funding, the award-winning design remains just that--a design. Its creator says the idea of working with the mobile home industry...

5 | October 6, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Seventy percent of the buildings in North America aren't automated. They're running wild, according to Cisco smart buildings chief Ed Richards -- and that spells opportunity.

1 | October 1, 2010 1:20pm | By Andrew Nusca

The CityCar project, which should produce its first full-fledged prototype by summer 2011, aims to rewrite the rules of urban transportation.

13 | September 24, 2010 12:00pm | By Heather Clancy

'Desktop manufacturing' may make domestic production profitable again.

4 | September 14, 2010 7:23pm | By Joe McKendrick