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But their waste is only a little worse than the Democrat waste it's replacing.
How a Facebook campaign might formalize the biggest slang word yet. Words for measurements and numbers often move from science to slang, as you...
C-SPAN may not be the most riveting television, but it does provide a way of experiencing American politics without some O'Reilly or Olbermann...
We've already told you about One Block Off the Grid's efforts to encourage communities to install solar panels, and now Treehugger reports that...
It's unclear exactly where in the state it'll be located, but this is good news: A consortium of Chinese and American renewable energy firms said...
Virgin Green Fund, the investment firm of Richard Branson, has recently been looking to invest $220 million in companies that use natural...
With the success of New York's High Line park, other cities are looking for new opportunities to create green public space. And Wilmington, a...

Theo Jansen keeps himself busy in the Dutch dunes "creating new forms of life that walk on the wind." Eventually, he'd like to set them free.

Transocean calls 2010 their "best year in safety," despite the explosion at their Deepwater Horizon rig that killed eleven.

In the past 48 hours, both David Frum and Newt Gingrich have advised Palin to think more about the things she says—or just stop saying things.
Exploring the sci-fi (and simply sci) roots of the word. Robots are in the air, and I don’t just mean flying robots like the self-assembling,...
From New Scientist, a modular robot that can reassemble itself when broken apart.As one commenter at YouTube points out, "this is the first step...
Heart Robot, a creepy Gollum-esque metal-and-circuit infant, is part of a new field of development in robotic science... the emotibot: robots with...
Who is Twittering on behalf of the Mars Phoenix Lander? Among the exclamations of Mad Men withdrawal and the pro-Obama celebrations on my...
This fall a thousand new fighters started shipping out to Iraq. They were robots, mind you, not people.
It seems like every time you turn around there's a team of engineers at Stanford making another autonomous driving system. Meet Shelley (video...

Companies and institutions are working on remote controlled and autonomous robots to help a variety of people-from soldiers in war to the elderly.

"Our new computer overlords" are no better at small talk than the rest of us.
So...this happens:An email from our lovely and talented web video director takes us here, at which point it comes to our attention that the...

While processed food is made in factories by giant machines, some human element has always been necessary for butchering and deboning. Until now.
