Failing schools are everyone’s problem. In his Big Think interview this week, NYU sociologist and education reform champion Pedro Noguera provides clear, no-nonsense advice on how government, teachers’ unions, and […]

Remember in movies like “Armageddon” and “Independence Day,” when the world united to combat asteroids and aliens…well, why can’t we do this in the sustainable energy movement?

The future of the American auto-industry will be based around start-ups, creating slick, even “slippery”-looking electronic cars.

America is already lagging well behind other countries, most notably China, in the effort to create a more sustainable path to transportation. Is it possible to catch up?

It’s one of America’s longest and most iconic love affairs, but even our most innovative approaches to sustainable transportation are futile if we can’t forget our irrational obsession with the […]

We already have all of the tools and technological capacity necessary to create a highly efficient line of plug-in vehicles on a mass scale—all we need is the fueling infrastructure.

Is the electrical production of energy all that efficient? What are the limits of lithium for battery powered vehicles? Will hydrogen fuel cells take over the market? The Founder of […]

Hybrid technology is only the beginning of a string of developments in energy efficiency that will link personal transportation to the power generation industry in a way never thought possible […]

A conversation with the founder of the California Cars Initiative.

A controversial Christian “child training” practice has come under fire from other Christians who deem its processes “abusive” rather than disciplinarian.

Former vice president Dick Cheney has been hospitalised after experiencing chest pains, having previously had four heart attacks.

A Twitter typo served as inspiration for a super fast and convenient way of paying for goods online called Twitpay, invented by Alabama-based computer programmer Michael Ivey.

A regular system of 26 symbols thought to be the origins of written language crop up in stone carvings throughout the prehistoric world – now experts are trying to decipher their meaning.

The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn says the “rapid apologies” by Nato forces after the killing of Afghan civilians “show a significant political and military change in the Afghan war”.

A Texan mother was startled to find a severed snake's head in a packet of frozen green beans while cooking for her family of four kids in Houston.

Investigation by a tenacious media organisation in Texas has exposed the shady circumstances by which the state gave away samples of hundreds of newborn babies' blood.

An Afghan immigrant, Najibullah Zazi, 25, has pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to planning a suicide bomb attack on the city’s subway system.

Afghani Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Kabir has been “seized in Pakistan” according to American media reports which say he was picked up in the city of Nowshera.

The National Enquirer has another piece of scandalous news for its clamouring public – it hopes to win a Pulitzer Prize for its revelations about the private life of John Edwards.

The world’s coral reefs – which have been around for about 50,000 years – represent a critical treasure trove not only of Earth’s precious remaining biodiversity, but also of potential […]