The rare woods used to make the world's best guitars may be running short. Companies are experimenting with innovative ways to use their ever-dwindling supplies of prized timber.

Harnessing sunlight in space could provide effectively limitless amounts of power without the resource limitations or environmental impacts of alternatives like fossil fuels.

New climate data taken from the peak of the last ice age suggests the Earth may be more resistant to carbon dioxide than previously thought. But there remains some ambiguity.

In the midst of the economic downturn, designer Sandra Garratt wanted to do something hopeful. So she integrated solar panels into her clothing designs to make green tech fashionable.

You may have heard that another atheist billboard campaign has been censored, this time in Ohio. The Mid-Ohio Atheists had spent several weeks coordinating with the billboard company, planning locations […]

The great promise of the Internet has always been the ability to create truly "frictionless" markets, where buyers and sellers, producers and consumers, are able to do business directly with […]

Following Julian Sanchez's lead, I've argued that now that the Occupy movement has succeeded in shining a spotlight on its primary concerns -- rising inequality, political corruption, and debt peonage […]

From an evolutionary perspective, our quickness to judge faces certainly makes sense. We need to know if someone is friend or foe, if he is strong or weak, if we can trust him or not. And we need to know quickly, before something bad happens. But is that quickness still as good when it determines national political outcomes?

{EAV:e47b9f8ac33e6b9b}Last summer I was invited to President Obama's Twitter Townhall at the White House along with 139 other characters. Despite the grandiose setting and President Obama opening the event with […]

--Guest post by American University graduate student Laila Yette. Through the use of sites like Facebook and Twitter, President Obama’s 2008 campaign changed the way that we view social media […]

"One of the problems with promotions is that we promote people based on outcomes, not about the quality of their decisions," says Ariely.

The blistering opinion rendered by Judge Jed Rakoff in the matter of the S.E.C. v. Citigroup Global Markets got very little attention yesterday in the midst of all the hoopla […]

If a public stock offering went ahead, some say Facebook would use the cash for more acquisitions and refine or work on new projects, such as a Facebook phone or netbook.

Amid growing concerns about the psychological impact of widespread digital 'enhancement' of photos comes a new tool to reveal how much fashion and beauty pics have been altered.

Are today's climate change deniers waging a war on science? A new book by James Lawrence Powell spills the dirt on the new war on science.

--Guest by Audrey Payne, American University graduate student. It seems like there are so many problems discussed in the media every day- public health, the environment, the economy, political protests…. […]

Responding to privacy concerns, the European Commission plans to crackdown on Facebook allowing users' most personal information to be used to create bespoke advertising.

If your product doesn’t need to be touched or demonstrated and is relatively small, your retail footprint is going to shrink. Bad news for retail clerks but exciting for entrepreneurs. because it could become easier to sell products in places that you couldn’t previously.Retail is going to shrink and proliferate. 

We've had the industrial revolution, and now we're amid the data revolution. 'Big data' is a tectonic shift that will continue to affect many things we do for decades to come.

One of the odder cultural moments of the late 1970s that still sticks with me is the cinematic tour de force titled The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, the improbably story […]