Design

Pandora's Promise is the most important environmental feature film since An Inconvenient Truth. Its ow inconvenient truth? Unfairly maligned nuclear power can save the world from climate change.

1 | June 19, 2013 5:18am | By Mark Halper

Can 3D batteries be as powerful as solid-state counterparts?

1 | June 19, 2013 5:07am | By Charlie Osborne

World-renowned design talents like Rem Koolhaas are introducing poorly conceived oddities that don't help solve serious workplace ergonomics issues.

2 | June 19, 2013 3:00am | By C.C. Sullivan

Power has become a public commodity for smartphone users in Manhattan with newly installed solar charging stations that are emerging in New York City parks.

June 18, 2013 6:46pm | By David Worthington

World Aeros wants to make airships that can transport 250-ton loads. They're cheaper and more energy efficient than cargo planes, but potential investors must first get over the "giggle factor."

28 | June 17, 2013 8:38pm | By Janet Fang

Walk along any major street and it's likely a number of surveillance cameras, mounted outside buildings and street lights, are watching you. An app under development tells you where they are.

11 | June 17, 2013 1:21pm | By Kirsten Korosec

Now you can tap into Stanford's startup knowledge.

June 17, 2013 7:31am | By Tyler Falk

Turn your nose up at metal screw caps? Can never find your cork screw? Help is on the way!

4 | June 17, 2013 7:25am | By Mark Halper

Georg Petschnigg co-founded the company behind Apple's app of the year -- Paper -- which is transforming the way people use the iPad.

1 | June 17, 2013 3:00am | By Christina Hernandez Sherwood

In a burgeoning U.S. market for small-batch and craft spirits, hundreds of small companies scattered throughout the nation are making new concoctions that would seem otherworldly to the...

June 17, 2013 3:00am | By Jason Dearen

The U.S. government spying scandal has implicated programs that secure critical infrastructure, protect intellectual property, and make commercial software more reliable.

15 | June 16, 2013 11:48am | By David Worthington

By offering employees "flu days," businesses can dramatically reduce the spread of flu in the workplace.

3 | June 14, 2013 8:20am | By Tyler Falk

Drivers using hands-free voice-activated technology might have their eyes fixed squarely on the road ahead them, but that doesn't mean they're not at risk.

8 | June 13, 2013 9:14am | By Kirsten Korosec

U.S. regulators have launched an investigation into a joint venture which may have violated antitrust laws.

June 13, 2013 6:55am | By Charlie Osborne

Board a train to the airport, and don't get off until you've flown to your destination.

9 | June 13, 2013 4:51am | By Charlie Osborne

A Kickstarter campaign could release hundreds of thousands of synthetic biological weeds across the United States -- and so far, the government is doing nothing about it.

25 | June 13, 2013 1:43am | By Laura Shin

The finalists for the 2013 Airbus Fly Your Ideas challenge includes a luggage unloading system inspired by air hockey and a way to power laptops in-flight using body heat.

5 | June 12, 2013 9:38pm | By Janet Fang

MIT researchers have constructed a pavilion with the help of 6,500 silkworms.

June 12, 2013 6:23pm | By Janet Fang

General Electric will invest $2 billion over the next five years to build software aimed at harnessing, and making sense, of the growing influx of data within the health care industry.

June 12, 2013 10:26am | By Kirsten Korosec

Stick a fork in U.S. nuclear power. With four plants closing this year and more to come, the dream of electricity "too cheap to meter" is dead.

90 | June 12, 2013 1:41am | By Chris Nelder