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Informal groups of enthusiasts may be the key to what makes a new product the next big thing.

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Seventy-six years after the invention of the modern sprinkler helped revolutionize farming, lasers may revolutionize it again.

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The length of the credit crisis will will depend on the availability of credit in all its forms.

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What could be big in hi-tech in 2009, part one.

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President-elect Barack Obama’s top asset in pushing his agenda will not be his Cabinet secretaries or aides, but rather his online network.

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Ethanol sales for 2008 for the first time are outpacing those of gasoline in Brazil, a top ethanol producer, the National Petroleum Agency reported.

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As bombs fall on Gaza, army, diplomats use web tools in PR offensive.

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A set of three genes helped to make the 1918 flu pandemic strain so deadly by giving the virus the ability to copy itself in lung tissue, scientists have found in ferrets.

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Scientists are testing artificial retinas that they hope can restore partial sight to people who’ve lost their vision to the most common causes of blindness.

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Air New Zealand successfully flew a test flight powered by second-generation biofuel, and hailed it as a "significant milestone" in the development of sustainable fuels for aircraft.

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Maintaining blood sugar levels, even in the absence of disease, may be an important strategy for preserving cognitive health, suggests a study published by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The study appeared …

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Tangshan Iron and Steel said it had agreed to merge with two smaller Chinese steel makers, Chengde Xinxin Vanadium and Titanium and Handan Iron and Steel, which would create the largest listed Chinese steel …

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Blue-collar workers are streaming back to the country’s farming hinterland as their city jobs fall victim to the global economic crisis.

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Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom will stop shipments to Ukraine if it doesn’t pay a $2 billion debt and agree to sharply higher payments for future deliveries by New Year’s Eve, the company’s …

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The global recession is re-exposing fissures in United States-China relations that Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. spent more than two years smoothing over.

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Imagine an advertising campaign where the pitch is so covert that the advertiser is all but undetectable. That’s the thinking behind "dark marketing," a term that seems to refer to ninja-type martial arts applied …

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Sixteen of the Rev. Darrell Venters’ fellow priests are running themselves ragged here, each serving three parishes simultaneously.

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A feat of biological alchemy that offers scientists the hope of growing replacement organs from patients’ own skin cells has been named the scientific breakthrough of the year. Cellular reprogramming allows scientists to rewind …

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Qteros and Q-microbes — a couple scientific names for a time of scientific development.

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Malaysia is zooming in on forests with a satellite in order to fight illegal logging which its government says is harming the major timber exporting country, a report said.

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Shares of Japanese convenience store chains are expected to keep outperforming the retail sector well into next year as economic problems have consumers choosing cheap prepared meals, instead of eating out.

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Gainesville’s first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago.

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Lawyers who represent candidates for mortgage modifications say the programs are hobbled by the complexity of securitization pools that hold the loans, as well as uncertainty about who actually owns the notes underlying the …

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It may seem perverse that many economists have concluded that the appropriate medicine for the U.S. economic trouble is a fresh dose of the very course that delivered the disarray: Spend without limit.

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A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", a leading food expert says.