A rapidly expanding manufacturer of all-electric cars, solar panels and other green products from China announced Friday it will open a North American headquarters in Los Angeles, with plans to begin selling autos in the …

In an attempt to develop a power source that is compact, environmentally friendly, and has an unlimited lifetime, a team of researchers from Singapore has fabricated an energy harvesting device that generates electricity from body …

Harvard University Professor Martin Feldstein said Greece will eventually default on its bonds and other euro-area nations may follow, most probably Portugal. … Read more

The government’s latest accounting of holdings of Treasury securities shows China still in first place as the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt. … Read more

The government’s latest accounting of holdings of Treasury securities shows China still in first place as the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt. … Read more

Nearly 1,000 kilometers north of Norway stands an impressive vault. Dug deep below the permafrost into solid rock, so far north that four months out of the year the sun doesn’t shine, the vault contains …

Population growth, urbanisation, increasing pollution, soil erosion and climate variations are all reflected in the management and adequacy of the world’s waters. The situation is particularly difficult in many developing countries, where there are growing …

For the first time, researchers have used a healthy person’s complete genome sequence to predict his risk for dozens of diseases and how he will respond to several common medications. … Read more

India has banned telecom equipment from China citing national security reasons, heightening trade tensions between the two Asian economic giants. … Read more

High waves and brewing storms are hampering efforts to contain a massive and growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just as traces seep into the coastal wetlands of Louisiana and surrounding states. …

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said the country’s survival was at stake in talks to win a potential $159 billion European Union-led bailout in exchange for budget cuts denounced by unions as “savage.” …

Astronauts on board the International Space Station will soon have a new roommate–and it’s not human. It’s a humanoid. … Read more

A new catalyst has been developed to generate hydrogen from water cheaply, but the research was originally intended to make molecules that behaved like magnets. Hydrogen is a clean power source currently produced from natural …

For months the top leaders of the European Union resisted the idea of a bailout for Greece, wringing their hands over the estimated $61 billion cost. While the jawboning continued, the infection took hold. …

Nearly half of US newspaper and broadcast TV news executives believe their organizations will fold within 10 years unless they find new revenue
streams, according to a survey. … Read more

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has approved controversial plans for the country’s first offshore wind farm to operate off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. … Read more

Melting sea ice has been shown to be a major cause of warming in the Arctic according to a University of Melbourne, Australia study. … Read more

High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years. …

Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, has demonstrated industry record broadband download speeds of up to 300 Megabits per second using two traditional twisted pair copper telephone lines. The achievement could extend the use of copper-based …

Tackling climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing South Asia. … Read more

A herd of dairy cows from the University of Waterloo might be the first of the bovine species to use Twitter. The cows brag about milk production, RFID transponder glitches, eating habits, technical issues with …

Stock markets around the world plunged amid deepening concern that efforts to restructure Greece’s debts will fail, setting the stage for what many predict will be the final act of a made-in-Europe financial tragedy. … …

Microprocessor designers at Intel and elsewhere are running into the limitations of silicon, the element from which computer chips are made and on which the information technology revolution rests. … Read more

Top military officials of China and Cuba, meeting in Beijing, pledged to develop further bilateral military ties. … Read more

When it comes to emerging markets, the first area most people consider are the so-called ‘BRIC’ economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China. Some, however, take an arguably more adventurous approach, looking to countries with …