In 2005, the English Folk Dance and Song Society gave sound sculptor Henry Dagg six months and $90,000 to create some interactive pieces. Nothing went according to plan.
A group of French engineering students want to see what their solar blimp — the helium-filled, solar-panel-studded Sol'r — can do. They have their eye on the English Channel for their first big test run, though the team has taken...
If the pharaohs of old ever decided to build Popemobiles for themselves, I imagine they'd look something like this. What you're looking at is the Dreamcar 123, described by inventor Greg Zanis (pictured above) as a vehicle for the future...
Not too long ago, Spanish designer Miguel-Angel Iranzo Sanchez showed off the Seat Brisa, which was essentially a solar-powered love seat. Now he's designed the Brisa's successor, the Duna, which comes off looking a bit more like a car with...
Last November, when the president was still President-Elect Barack Obama, we asked him to humbly consider a "New New Deal" on clean energy in the United States. The focus was on the part of the power grid that most of...
In Britain, the lovable red squirrel — think Tufty, he of the dated public information films — has been virtually wiped out by its cousin, the eastern gray. While some people have more dramatic methods of making sure the species,...