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.

This spring, a Free Press report, Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?, argued that DPI technology poses a major threat to the open Internet, giving network providers unprecedented power over Internet users.

In our country, one of the crops that has caused the most negative impacts from its start to the present day is sugarcane.

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?

Some of the Central American rainforest's hidden treasures are being revealed by the Maya, more than a millennium after their passing.

A unique signal detected by NASA's Aqua satellite is helping researchers check the health and productivity of ocean plants around the world. Fluorescent red light emitted by ocean phytoplankton and detected by Aqua reveals how efficiently the microsco

Scientists have genetically modified primates to make them glow green and pass the trait on to their offspring. BUAV: "This sort of research on animals as sentient as monkeys and apes does not have public support"

Though global warming news has been in people's minds for a while now, many still don't seem to understand the causes of the problem. Find out the truth and take action to help save our planet!

A healthy panda cub was born Wednesday at a zoo in northern Thailand. Staff artificially inseminated Lin Hui, a 7 year old female, on Feb. 18, but had seen no signs that she was pregnant.

Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived,....