Overstock.com, the online seller of excess inventory, sued New York state over a new law requiring more Web retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to residents in the state.
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To save money in these tough times, universities, conference planners and global companies have started holding gatherings for far-flung employees and students in the online world known as Second Life.
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Entrepreneurs have stepped forward with technology that allows billboards to measure their advertising effectiveness.
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Considering that nighttime driving is often the most dangerous, the new Toyota Crown Hybrid could help make the roads safer by giving drivers a kind of nocturnal vision.
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New research in Nature Nanotechnology shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low …

Montreal’s stock exchange on officially launched the Montreal Climate Exchange, the country’s first carbon trading forum aimed at helping to cut greenhouse gases.
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Natural spoken dialogue technology has long been a dream for many. Advances by European researchers are making this a reality. The results of their work could soon be used to allow us to verbally interact …

A mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the May 30 …

European governments agreed Friday to spend $731 million developing fuel cells and hydrogen technology for cars that could slash oil consumption and carbon dioxide emissions within decades.
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While his friends scramble for jobs flipping burgers or bagging groceries this summer, 18-year-old Mike Everest will be working as a trader in the fantasy Web world of "Entropia Universe," buying and selling virtual animal …

This week, waves of protest broke out across the continent, as irate port workers clashed with riot police in Marseilles and banner-wielding truckers shut down traffic in London.
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Population, pollution, and climate put the squeeze on potable supplies and private companies smell a profit. Others ask: Should water be a human right?
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Robotic rovers have patrolled deep space and the deepest seas, but scientists are still struggling to create drones that can overcome the multiple challenges of exploring Antarctica.
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Loss of forests and other natural systems could halve living standards for the world’s poor, a major report will conclude.
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A longstanding assumption of U.S. energy policy has been that natural gas would be plentiful abroad, but experts say the gas could be hit by the same boom in overseas demand that has made oil …

Nearly everyone told Matt and Jessica Flannery that their idea — a website where people could make micro loans to individual borrowers in the developing world — wouldn’t work. Venture capitalists couldn’t see how anyone …

Insects are a source of inspiration for technological development work. For example, researchers around the world are working on ultra-thin imaging systems based on the insect eye. The principle of hyperacuity has now been successfully …

General Electric to cut own use by 20% amid warnings that growing scarcity will lead to a price surge
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The superhero tools of modern medicine can spy tumors, rehabilitate stroke victims and stop heart attacks in their tracks. And these powers can soon be as close as your pocket.
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The quest for green, clean technologies is about to get a boost from a research and development team 140,000 strong, scattered across 175 countries.
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Goteborg is among dozens of Swedish municipalities with facilities that transform sewage waste into enough biogas to run thousands of cars and buses.
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The ranks of consumers with passive and predictable habits are being replaced by platoons of noisy, Internet-savvy activists that lob feedback, challenge established business approaches and clamor for a voice in the goods and services …

Credit for auto loans is getting harder to come by, and used car prices are dropping due to a flood of repossessions and cast-off gas guzzlers.
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With aviation growing in terms of the number of planes operating and passengers taking to the skies, the industry is engaged in an important and candid dialogue

It’s a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients’ nerve circuitry fires. Scientists already know the power of these devices to block the tremors of …