These are tough times for any industry that burns a lot of fossil fuel or emits a lot of carbon dioxide, and the air travel business does both. The airlines never gave it much thought before, but with sky-high oil prices and mounting concern about...

So what does the proposed copyright legislation, Bill C61, have in store for you? Aside from not being able to download free music any more, it puts all sorts of limitations on intellectual property and how it can be used.

Economic woes have many of us wondering how much further our house values will plunge, how low the stock market will dive, and how high gas and food prices will continue to soar. Yet there is an optimistic refrain spiraling around—maybe this financial...

If we do discover intelligence beyond Earth, the popular misconception is that we can rapidly know a lot about it. But if we get a signal, we won\’t be sure in a day that it\’s from an extraterrestrial. The process could take years —...

Japanese car manufacturer Honda has begun the first commercial production of a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.

Finding common biological traits — things like hair growth patterns, penis size, family makeup — might one day shed light on the origins of sexual orientation.

As part of a push by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to make plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) cost competitive with other cars by 2014, Ford has delivered a plug-in hybrid electric flex-fuel Escape to the DOE to join its test fleet of other...

You have everything you need to keep you informed. Technology provides you with answers to almost any question instantly. If you need reminders, you can program devices to prompt you to remember your appointments and to-do list.

Many museums are good for first dates, though the ones mentioned here might best be shared with good friends only—those who also have an interest in the truly odd and bizarre. Be warned: these museums include an assortment of un-PC art, grotesque...

Black holes are the most fascinating features of space time yet discovered, regions where mass is compacted so densely that the values literally go off the scales and physics breaks down.