According to statistics from The Institute of Medicine, 7,000 deaths happen every year because of a prescription mix-up. Some of these deaths could have been prevented.

July 10, 2011 11:12pm | By Stacy Lipson

A tiny new camera costing pennies could transform fields as disparate as robotics, neuroscience, medicine, energy efficiency and smartphones, to name a few.

July 10, 2011 8:58pm | By Laura Shin

In Britain, critics argue over an in-vitro fertilization lottery which they call "demeaning".

July 8, 2011 9:42pm | By Stacy Lipson

'The Internet no longer belongs to the young tech genius with a great idea and the means to execute it online.'

1 | July 8, 2011 9:37pm | By Joe McKendrick

When your smartphone is dead and there's no electrical outlet in sight, you're usually out of luck. But if the sun was shining and you were sporting the OffGrid Solar Backpack, you'd have plenty...

July 8, 2011 1:07pm

What makes a product successful? It's all about context, writes Nasahn Sheppard, director of industrial design at Smart Design.

1 | July 8, 2011 11:16am | By Andrew Nusca

Swiss researchers are using high-performance cloud computing to model and develop new antibiotics to fight disease.

July 8, 2011 10:39am | By Andrew Nusca

More businesses are turning to third-party verification of their corporate sustainability reports, to reduce risk and introduce management discipline.

2 | July 8, 2011 9:19am | By Heather Clancy

A new paper released Thursday by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that enrolling in Medicaid helped recipients improve their long-term health and maintain financial stability.

4 | July 8, 2011 8:30am | By Stacy Lipson

U.S. senator Barbara Boxer says that Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal allows cuts to transportation by 30 percent, threatening 600,000 infrastructure jobs.

22 | July 8, 2011 8:18am | By Andrew Nusca

Michigan's largest renewable energy provider received approval this week to build a 100-megawatt wind farm in the state.

3 | July 8, 2011 8:02am | By Andrew Nusca

The largest solar photovoltaic factory in Italy opened its doors on Friday, bolstering the country's leading global position in renewable energy.

July 8, 2011 7:25am | By Andrew Nusca

Showtime in Germany. With all the demonstration flights behind it, Lufthansa will start using jet biofuels on its Hamburg-Frankfurt route next Friday, a world first.

July 8, 2011 6:00am | By Mark Halper

Run a red light, get a fine in the mail: a new study shows most drivers support the use of red-light cameras.

25 | July 8, 2011 5:12am | By Channtal Fleischfresser

A man needed a new windpipe, so scientist made one for him. This eliminates the need for a human donation.

1 | July 8, 2011 4:02am | By Boonsri Dickinson

Weight reductions and durability offer two compelling reasons for sustainability executives to consider composite materials alternatives.

2 | July 8, 2011 3:58am | By Heather Clancy

The Skylon space plane, which can take off and land on runways, may be the future of spaceflight.

8 | July 8, 2011 1:11am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

The Vivid q will help assess the impact of long space flight on astronauts and their hearts on the International Space Station.

July 7, 2011 6:30pm | By Janet Fang

Spring rains gave renewable power generation the edge over nuclear facilities over the past three months, putting clean energy ahead of nuclear power for the first time in nearly a decade.

11 | July 7, 2011 4:20pm | By David Worthington

3D chocolate printer may help make consumer co-creation more palatable for businesses and product designers. They'll come back for more.

2 | July 7, 2011 2:45pm | By Joe McKendrick