Nissan has licensed its self-healing paint to a cell phone company that will use the coating on phones for the Japanese market. The paint reacts with the sun and heat to heal minor scratches in a week or less.

As Sergey Brin noted today at Web 2.0, Google doesn't make it easy to find the pre-release version of Chrome for Mac, but he encouraged those in the audience here who were jonesing for Mac Chrome to download and use it.

Upcycling company TerraCycle has collected more than 5 million chip bags in the past year. What to do with all that garbage? How about a new line of folding universal speakers made out of Frito wrappers?

Microwaves are energy efficient and convenient. But what does the radiation do to our food, and can it affect our health?

There's been plenty of hype about the Smart Grid -- some justified and some not. But the gold award for Smart Grid hype has to go to Cisco, whose spokesperson last month said that the grid could end up being up to 1,000 times the size of the Internet.

The Smart Grid is the hottest thing in Green IT these days, attracting not just lots of press, but attention from heavyweights like Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Google.

You could have the science about our climate completely wrong- make sure that you know whether global warming is a man-made or a natural phenomenon here.

Do you recycle your cell phones? It's a great practice for insuring that toxic materials in those old phones don't make their way into the environment. But what about the other side of the cell phone lifecycle? Do you know where the materials come from?

Eighth-grader David S. Dixon-along with his dad David G. Dixon-has built a street-legal quadricycle powered by a solar-charged electric motor. The bike not only carries his dog and three friends, but it has also has an iPod dock and GPS. Ya, it's that coo

Lamborghini has plans for a hybrid vehicle as part of a larger rollout of green goals. They plan to cut the company-wide CO2 emissions by 30% in the next 6 years, and cut vehicles' emissions by 35%.