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We live in a time of two economies.

The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.

The battle over "platforms" is as frenzied and vital as a presidential campaign. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;"} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Illustration by I Love Dust It has become impossible to escape the smartphone wars

Utilities are big and slow and doing a bad job preparing for the smart-grid-enabled future. Those who can't wait are setting up smaller grids, which are becoming test sites for smart energy management technology

Oil prices--which spiked during the start of revolts around the Middle East--have now come down due to low demand and a sluggish economy. Will the extra oil produced once the area calms down be enough to save the economy? With the Libyan Civil War winding down the question on the rebels' NATO allies now becomes : “When can we bring the oil fields back online?” It wasn’t until the Arab Spring arrived in Libya that worldwide oil prices really began to fluctuate, as the country's output of light sweet crude quickly dwindled from 1.3 million barrels a day to a mere 60,000, a loss equivalent to five percent of Europe’s total supply, or more than 15 percent of Italy’s, France’s, Switzerland’s and Austria’s

The discovery of lager yeast's parentage has implications for brewers, and Diego Libkind, the primary researcher on a new study, is already tapping into some of these ideas. A new discovery has unlocked the secret story of lager beer’s South American origins, and is letting scientists piece together the genetic history of the domesticated microbe that keeps lager cool.

Every northern country is making territorial claims to land being exposed under melting ice, creating a truly cold new Cold War near the North Pole. If you don't believe that the Arctic ice cap is melting, ask the Russians about it.

From Roman aqueducts to Chinese rail, enormous infrastructure has the potential to transform a society. To fix these economic doldrums, the government should partner with the private sector to solve society's problems

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Leslie Brokaw, a founding editor of Inc. Online, recalls Inc.com's early go-go years. About a dozen of us were in the Inc

Children and adolescents who use cell phones no more likely to develop cancer than kids who don't, says new research from Europe

By Tasim Zahid LONDON (Reuters) - British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate set to transform the nation's countryside. [More]

The new Personal Genome Machine was used to decode the DNA of the deadly strain of E. coli that ravaged Europe this spring

Apple's destined to become the world's first trillion-dollar company.

Working out has never been more efficient or a bigger part of a human culture than it is today. We've dug into the history of kinesiology to find the inventions and processes that changed exercise.