A startup called Catabasis is developing drugs that hit diseases at multiple targets.

Sometimes a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The startup Catabasis Pharmaceuticals is hoping that will hold true for the multifunctional drugs it’s developing.

Despite the need to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, the burning of coal has only been accelerating.

A prototype system can heat and cool without draining battery power.

Buyers considering an electric car must bear in mind that using battery-powered heating and air conditioning can decrease the car’s range by a third or more (see “BMW’s Solution to Limited Electric-Vehicle Range: A Gas-Powered L...

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An ad delivered straight to the eyeball feels like a violation.

Some curious information came to light this week about Google Glass. For a company that owes its solvency to advertising–95% of its revenue comes from it–remarkably, Google is planning an ad-free experience for its on-eye computing exp...

Police can obtain huge quantities of social network data, but must sort out the junk to glean useful information.

Within hours of obtaining identifications of the Boston marathon bombing suspects, police likely obtained search warrants and extensive digital records from mobile phone networks and...

The Department of Energy and the Alaskan Government are speeding up development of oil sands and methane hydrates.

Many environmentalists are protesting the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline because it would help facilitate the delivery of oil from Canada’s oil sands and, they argue, increase carbon d...

Google tries to use its buying clout to prod utilities to offer renewable energy option.

Google has spent more than $1 billion in solar and wind energy projects but it ultimately has no control over the fuel that produces the electricity that powers its data centers. Google today is proposing a new...