Deep within the bowels of a heated-oil barge sits 14,569 gallons of oily sludge that one expert deems the biggest environmental hazard to Dickinson Bayou. Who owns the barge or abandoned it in the shallows of the bay remains unknown, at

Scientists and engineers are racing to develop ways to use light instead of electricity to avoid traffic jams inside computers

Taking inspiration from the natural world, architect Eugene Tsui has designed a two-mile-high, ultra-dense urban development.

Something is pulling the universe apart. What is it, and where will it take us from here? Scientists at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, seek answers to those questions with the newly-commissioned South Pole Telescope.

An international team of scientists have found the source of the stream of particles that make up the solar wind.

Dog owners,who've noticed that their four-legged friends seem equally delighted to see them after five minutes away as five hours, may wonder if animals can tell when time passes. New research may bring us closer to answering that very question.