The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.

James Stuart: 2017 sounds far away but in reality it is only 10 years away from the present date. 10 years isn’t a long time. Think back to 10 years ago. Time flies. Yet in this time a lot seems to happen. In the background as people get on with their daily lives 10 years [...]

Jim Sears spent years in his Boulder garage pondering the details of a system for turning algae, sunlight and power-plant exhaust into fuel on a massive scale. The company he founded to make his vision a reality, Solix Biofuels, launched with fanfare in December.

Now that everyone has had time to digest the fact that the Boston Moonite bomb scare was just a clever marketing scheme gone horribly awry, it is time for the parodies to begin. Behold Whack-A-Moonite!

At this point, you might think that everyone in the US who wants a TV has one. But the population is growing, and there will be more than than 50 million additional US TV households in the next 40 years, according to new data released by Nielsen Media Research.

British tycoon Sir Richard Branson today announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Okay, this is for the ultra-lazy people among us.  But the next time you need a refill, just drive your glass into the kitchen and honk until someone fills it up.  Doesn’t work very well if you’re single.

Pre-teen girls between the ages of nine and 12 are most likely to gain weight, a new study says. For this study, US researchers enrolled more than 2,300 girls aged nine and 10 and followed them for at least a decade.

Many travelers know the trick to getting the best price online: They shop at online travel agencies, then book rooms or flights on a supplier’s site. But that’s not the whole story.

To determine our list, we ranked more than 200 cities (minimum population: 100,000) in the continental U.S. using a proprietary index based on the latest pricing data from the Council for Community and Economic Research in Arlington, Va. In many cases, the results are not what you’d expect. We tallied the average costs of some [...]

Two brews in one: coffee beer. Because the world needs more wide awake drunks.

Just one big giant rabbit.