The idea that data can be the salvation to the environmental travails of the physical world seems counterintuitive.

Faced with the prospect of a dwindling customer base, some U.S. power companies are seeking to end public subsidies and other incentives for rooftop solar.

Despite the talk about how massive open online courses, or MOOCs, will dramatically alter the landscape of higher education, the courses have in some ways taken academe back -- to the days of huge gender gaps, when senior scholars overwhelmingly were men.

The British Government was accused of "breathtaking laxity" in its arms controls after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.

Many parents question if proposed guidelines go too far in eliminating homework and tests

LG and Acer are both claiming "world firsts" with their latest product launches, revealed ahead of Berlin's Ifa tech show.

The first day after the holidays is one of the grimmest in the working year.

Everybody likes to make a good first impression

In a shabby back-alley office in Shibuya, a Tokyo district known for youth culture and tech ventures, defectors from corporate Japan are hard at work for a little-known company they fervently believe will be the country's next big manufacturing success.

They are all "veterans of the tobacco wars," as Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois put it.