Starbucks to cities: Improve your recycling

Starbucks to cities: Improve your recycling

Starbucks talks cities and recycling, including what it's doing with the four billion disposable cups it sells each year. Read the full story

Atlanta lands $47.6 million DOT grant for streetcars; at 'vanguard of renaissance'

The city of Atlanta has won a $47.6 million from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to fund a modern streetcar system linking business and tourism. Read the full story

PepsiCo sustainability work yields crop management technology

Seeking to cut water usage by 50 percent in five years, the beverage giant is testing the i-crop solution at more than 20 farms in the U.S.. Read the full story

World's first all-robotic surgery performed in Canada

Would you agree to an operation by robotic surgeons named "DaVinci" and "McSleepy"? One patient did. Read the full story

Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who has the best vital signs of them all?

A Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology graduate student has developed a system that measures your pulse rate in real-time. Read the full story

To deter poachers, African rhinos fit with GPS chips

Officials in South Africa are fitting rhinos with GPS chips to monitor them and deter poaching, according to a new report. Read the full story

New nanospheres are stiffer than steel; use for medical implants

Scientists have developed self-assembling, transparent nanospheres that are stiffer than steel and Kevlar. Read the full story

Why feds won't approve a pill to cure obesity epidemic

A new obesity drug, lorcaserin, has either been shot down or put into an FDA purgatory. nbsp;Read the full story

The carbon footprint of space tourism

As the first commercial runway to outer space opens in New Mexico, a new study predicts the atmospheric costs of space tourism. Read the full story

Google cracks down on privacy -- again

We need more control over our own data. Read the full story

Innovation important, but stymied by short-term thinking, executives say

IT departments have often been accused of slowing down change or innovation, since systems can take time to adapt to new processes. Read the full story

Three organizations pledge to drive 20% cut in fleet emissions

Environmental Defense Fund, Donlen and GreenDriver commit to five-year plan that will hinge heavily on data collection, benchmarking and education. Read the full story

The mysterious processor behind China's first homegrown supercomputer

Forget Intel and AMD: a little known family of chips is finally drawing China into the processor wars. Read the full story