Electricity is in the air around the city of Raleigh, North Carolina as they host Plug-In 2011, which began today and runs through July 21. Billed as offering the opportunity for the most "complete, open and direct dialogue concerning the future of plug-in hybrid and electric transportation," anyon...

Here are the top seven resolutions for the Earth in the New Year.

Like many folks, I truly dislike dwelling much on the 9-11 attacks. The memories are too painful. What we all saw that day is deeply seared into our collective memory and we will never forget. But what I feared most as I watched those towers fall was not another attack. It was America's reacti...

Writer Alyssa Danigelis lifts the curtain on blogging for Discovery News. Get the popcorn ready.

A group of architects have a radical new idea for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: turn it all into a giant island the size of Hawaii's Big Island.

Each lightbulb has its own IP address that's controlled wirelessly via an app and smartphone.

Researchers are building vegetable gardens that could one day be used to support colonies on the moon.

The desert agave plant has all the makings for a smooth biofuel.