People use smartphones everywhere, without necessarily realizing they're exposing the handsets to all sorts of germs and dirt. In addition to collecting dirt while in use, phones can accumulate dust ...

In January a total of seven gas-powered cars were sold in all of Norway. This year Pakistan expects that parts of the country will get more electricity from decentralized rooftop solar than from its ...

When one of the world's most iconic boardgames gets turned into a mobile idler, you can be sure the world will pay attention. Now, millions of players are enjoying the semi-automated gameplay of ...

Plastics tend to break down into microplastics rather than biodegrade (though there are biodegradable plastics as well). Another issue is the amount of plastic entering the oceans: approximately 11 ...

Google announced Tuesday that it will build a data center in Minnesota that’s backed by 1.9 gigawatts of clean power, including a massive 300-megawatt battery made by startup Form Energy. The new data ...

The momentous end to the federal government’s legal authority to fight climate change makes it official. The United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America ...

The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say. By Hiroko Tabuchi The momentous ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The St. Petersburg City Council discussed a potential new program on Thursday at a committee hearing which could provide support for the homeless in downtown, cleaning services ...

In 1941, two astronauts began the seemingly impossible feat of training a robot to operate a solar energy station in space, one capable of beaming power across the Solar System. Of course, this was ...