As solar and wind power grow, another renewable energy source with vast potential — the power of tides and waves — continues to lag far behind.

There are several reasons you rarely see people using clotheslines anymore.

Kyle Metzloff’s “laboratory” at the UW-Platteville is more accurately a foundry, a place where students majoring in industrial technology can learn the fiery secrets of metal-casting.

Hardline Muslims in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Sunday demanded the local government close 10 Christian churches, just days after a mob burnt down a church, leaving one person dead and several injured.

Let's be honest. For busy parents, packing your child's school lunch can quickly devolve from a labor of love to a rushed morning chore.

Amazon is taking legal action against more than 1,000 people it says have posted fake reviews on its website.

A U.S. jury on Friday ordered Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company's iPhones and iPads without permission.

China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken.

Female academics may be held back in their careers more by inflexible partners, and less by the demands of children, than previously thought, a new analysis indicates.

One of the biggest names in astronomy resigned his professorship at the University of California at Berkeley on Wednesday over the fallout from a damning investigation into his conduct with female students.