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No one is buying them because of charging confusion. Is there a future for electric two-wheelers sold as personal electronics? We proclaimed that electric motorcycles were going mainstream after Best Buy introduced the Brammo Enertia electric commuter bike to select stores in 2009.

Add boring desk jobs to list of seemingly unavoidable reasons why Americans are gaining weight. Add desk jobs to the myriad reasons--including driving and your mother's pregnancy habits --why Americans are so fat.

If we run out of phosphate fertilizer, it will mean bad things for our future eating. But giving our crops a fungus can help us stretch our supply. The human race has a food problem

Because solar and wind are only available sometimes, GE's new powerplant can quickly cycle on or off to pick up the slack.

If approved by the FDA, Allergan could market its product to teens--and insurers might be more likely to give the go-ahead for the surgery, which can cost up to $20,000.

Good news: Bee deaths aren't getting worse. Bad news: Bees are still dying at an alarming rate

Japan's Fukushima disaster did more than just ravage the surrounding area with radiation; it also freaked out every other country that relies on nuclear power. Germany's reaction was perhaps the strongest--the country is now working without three quarters (16 GW) of its nuclear power while plants undergo safety reviews (some plants are offline for maintenance outages). How is the country faring

You may unwittingly be exposing your bundle of joy to toxic chemicals.

Have you ever tried studying in the dark? How about studying in the midst of noxious fumes? It's not the best educational environment.

GTherm's new technology solves the unfortunate side effect of harvesting the Earth's heat--serious tremors.

Just in case the whole electric-car revolution doesn't pan out, vehicle manufactures have been hedging their bets with hydrogen-powered vehicles; just last week, Toyota opened the first hydrogen refueling station connected directly to a hydrogen pipeline. But human production of hydrogen from water is often a dirty process--most hydrogen today is produced from natural gas. Plants, however, split water all the time

The conventional wisdom is that it always makes sense to reuse or remake products rather than to make new ones--why make a new tire when you can retread an old one, and why manufacture a new inkjet cartridge when you can refill a used one? But conventional wisdom is often wrong. In some cases, it may actually be more resource and energy-efficient to manufacture new products, according to a new study from MIT

Numbers show that people are giving up on non-toxic cleaning products. But they're really just giving up the ones that are doing it for show.

Ford is using organically derived materials all over their cars. Why?

More than 70% of the world's fisheries are currently being harvested at capacity or are in decline, but fish are also delicious and quite good for you. What's a conscientious diner to do? The conventional wisdom has always been to avoid big fish at the top of the food chain--marlins, sharks, and tuna, for example--and focus on little fish, like sardines and anchovies, which have shorter lives and can reproduce more quickly.