Every streetlight, traffic camera, and trash can in tomorrow’s cities could be part of one massive digital nervous system.

Recycling takes more than just throwing your used cans into the recycling bin. If you're not prepping your aluminum before ...

Another mixed division Blue Blood program, Drag’n Thrust, in comparison to shame., have both a messier record – seven losses ...

Many of the scraps that people throw away from garden vegetables are actually edible. And they can be cooked, frozen or ...

Americans are sitting on more than $39 billion of matured but unredeemed U.S. savings bonds, according to the Treasury Department, but cashing them isn’t as simple as it was. Electronic savings bonds ...

This green mesh parachute is unlike any that Westerners are used to: It is thin, flexible and can be folded back into a disk for reuse. Montreal researchers are testing its uses with small objects.

The time it takes to receive a federal income tax refund could drag out six weeks and more next year for many people who are bound and determined to receive a paper check in the mail. Beginning next ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s hard to stay calm when it’s your job to rid Oakland of trash. Josh Rowan, the city’s acting public works director, becomes irate when he drives through the canyons of cardboard ...

David Brito is a postdoctoral researcher at the ABC CoLAB – Ageing Better and Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute (ABC-RI) and, an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine and ...

Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city with more garbage than almost anywhere else. Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city ...

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