Dirty, yet abundant and easily shipped, coal is starting to challenge natural gas as the fuel of choice for new power plants.

Wasps aren’t exactly man’s best friends, but when it comes to sniffing out trouble, some scientists think they’re better, cheaper and easier to train than hounds.

For Ivan Marovic, video games are serious business.

Early nerve damage caused by repetitive strain injuries can trigger “sick worker” syndrome — characterized by malaise, fatigue and depression, and often mistaken for poor performance, according to a study by Ann Barr, Ph.D., and Mary Barbe, Ph.D., at Temple University’s College of Health Professions.

Mercedes is revealing at the Tokyo Motor Show its latest research vehicle that can produce enough electricity for several homes

North Carolina State University researchers are reportedly looking deep under water for clues on how to redesign plants for life deep in outer space.

Auto researchers are working on the next generation of driving assistance systems that will in theory make it possible to navigate a car to its destination without a driver at the wheel.

A growing number of countries, including China, Brazil, India and Cuba — as well as the European Union — are questioning U.S. control over the Internet.

A team of Stanford electrical engineers has discovered how to modulate, or switch on and off, a beam of laser light up to a 100 billion times a second with materials that are widely used in the semiconductor industry.