A couple unusual wooden vehicles.

In an age of flextime, when workers increasingly commute outside peak traffic flows, the delivery of electricity seems a bit, well, static. When you need it most, so does everyone else, imposing big costs and occasional brownouts on utilities and their customers. But a Washington, D.C., startup called GridPoint has a better idea. Starting this […]

Japan may have been in a slump for a decade but it still has the third largest economy in the world, behind the US and China. The IMF put Japan’s GDP at $4.6 trillion in 2005.  Great stats.

Plants thought to help treat or cure cancer, AIDS and malaria have
been found in the rainforests of Borneo, a report from the Swiss-based
global conservation group WWF said on Thursday.

The California Public Utilities Commission approved a plan on
Thursday allowing providers of high-speed Internet services to test
electricity lines to deliver online access throughout the state.

To the United States, he is a seriously
dangerous man who put the nation’s security at risk by
committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time."

Transplants involving immature, stem cell-generated nervous system
"support cells" helped repair damaged spinal cords in rats, researchers
report.

A two-legged robot being developed by Japanese scientists could one day carry the elderly and handicapped up stairs or inclines.