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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The number of projects for capturing greenhouse gases from power plants and factories edged up in 2010 despite soaring costs and slow progress in U.N.-led efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. [More]

The numbers of fish and other ocean life have dropped dramatically in the past few decades. That’s because of commercial overfishing, and something called bycatch. [More]

By Jane Qiu Growing environmental costs and energy demands have persuaded China's leaders that the country cannot sustain its breakneck economic growth. [More]

Sleep deprivation can lead to plenty of unwise decisions, which researchers have long tied to flagging attention and short-term memory . But a new study shows how just one night of missed sleep can make people more likely to chase big gains while risking even larger losses--independent of their tapering attention spans. [More]

More than 18 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with diabetes , which costs an estimated $174 billion annually.

By Alison Abbott The European Commission has selected six futuristic proposals to compete for two huge flagship projects that will apply information and communication technologies to social problems. [More]

By Adam Mann A showdown over the course of Solar System exploration has ended with a qualified victory for Mars. [More]

Austrian and German researchers at the University of Vienna and Technische Universitaet Muenchen have solved a long-standing problem in the design of mechanical resonators: the numerical prediction of the design-limited damping. They report their achievement, which has a broad impact on diverse fields, in the forthcoming issue of Nature Communications.

I'd like to imagine that an intense passion for sailing coupled with a severe case of hydrophobia were what compelled Mr.

Magnetic Random Access Memories (MRAM) are the most important new modules on the market of computer storage devices.

Sitting at the end of the long wooden bar, I watch with curiosity as Richie begins his pour. He starts the stopwatch on his cell phone and proceeds to pour steaming hot water over the coffee grounds in a precise choreographed motion

The picture of Southeast Asia's deforestation is coming into greater focus. Scientists have developed a new satellite-imaging technique that allows them to have a better bird's eye view of when carbon-rich peatlands were cleared and to what extent they have been replaced by palm oil trees. [More]

Do genes make people evil? --Robert Schreib, Jr., Toms River, N.J.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Many farmers in developing nations can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a U.N. report showed on Tuesday. [More]

As an understocked purveyor of large dried fruit might say, we’re out of big dates for a while. The Orwellian 1984 came and went, we partied like it was 1999, the most ominous monoliths in 2001 turned out to be ideological and the Clarkesque follow-up of 2010 recently ended without interplanetary incident. We have another five centuries before we judge the prescience of Zager and Evans, if we are still alive.