Environment

There's one problem with the swift rise of the Greek yogurt industry: acid whey.

1 | May 23, 2013 2:16pm | By Tyler Falk

Old habits die hard. As natural gas prices rise, coal has reversed its slide and surged ahead as the clear leader in electric power generation. CO2? What CO2?

May 23, 2013 12:33pm | By Mark Halper

Once a bastion of dungarees and power tools, the iconic retailer thinks it has figured out a modern way to market all those abandoned stores that it still owns.

May 23, 2013 7:51am | By Mark Halper

Are employee expense tactics costing U.K. businesses?

May 21, 2013 5:13am | By Charlie Osborne

Erosion happens. So how do you harness these natural processes to re-nourish beaches and fortify the coastline?

3 | May 20, 2013 2:35pm | By Janet Fang

Leila Takayama imagines a world where human-friendly robots interact successfully with people. But it's not always easy teaching a 500-pound machine not to block the office coffee maker.

May 20, 2013 3:00am | By Christina Hernandez Sherwood

An undersea gold rush could be coming soon with the rising cost of minerals and advancements in technology opening the seafloor to mining.

3 | May 19, 2013 9:20pm | By David Worthington

Yet another peer-to-peer service comes up against regulatory hurdles in New York State.

12 | May 17, 2013 3:10am | By Channtal Fleischfresser

Want to improve your focus? Measure your brainwaves.

May 15, 2013 6:15am | By Tyler Falk

Energy analyst Chris Nelder reports from a foreign country deep in the throes of shale gas fever.

35 | May 15, 2013 3:00am | By Chris Nelder

With sensor-driven applications on the rise, Hillcrest Labs looks beyond smart TVs to mobile devices and wearable computers.

May 14, 2013 3:00am | By Mari Silbey

BARCELONA -- Ear plugs that you can actually hear through. Cubes of silence in the middle of busy squares. Peace from the city racket is coming to a Spanish city near you.

2 | May 13, 2013 3:06am | By Jennifer Riggins

Business plan: Sell the gas abroad at a huge profit, build nukes at home.

5 | May 10, 2013 5:24am | By Mark Halper

Daredevils piloting a solar plane will embark on the first transcontinental flight of its kind across the U.S. starting tomorrow

1 | May 2, 2013 7:50pm | By David Worthington

Insects see brilliantly through thousands of tiny lenses in "compound eyes." Researchers have built a camera using the same principle. Killer panoramas. Good for spying and seeing up your nose too.

3 | May 2, 2013 4:00am | By Mark Halper

Forget plants and grey -- perhaps slides and subways are the way to keep your employees interested.

1 | May 1, 2013 3:30am | By Charlie Osborne

Where would you be happiest living as a young professional?

1 | April 29, 2013 6:10am | By Charlie Osborne

In a Nairobi slum, newly minted entrepreneurs run more than 160 public toilets and transform their waste into fertilizer -- and someday they'll turn it into electricity.

2 | April 22, 2013 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez Sherwood

"Crowdshipping" is a new and less expensive way to ship goods through travelers connecting online. But if something goes wrong, who is held responsible?

25 | April 22, 2013 3:00am | By Amy Serafin

How much can we tell about a person from just looking at their bedroom or office? Psychologist Sam Gosling says quite a lot -- except for one personality trait.

2 | April 19, 2013 5:00am | By Christie Nicholson