A team of scientists announced they have harvested hydrogen from water in microgravity—a proof-of-principle test that…

It’s understandable that you want to be as careful as possible when handling explosive material like rocket fuel—but…

This past Saturday, a tanker transporting oil from Iran to South Korea collided with a freighter about 160 miles off…

Scientists recently developed a method to convert sewage into biocrude oil, so it appears that our future will quite…

In news that offers hope that human civilization won’t end up drowning in soda bottles and plastic wrap, Chinese…

Is it the fuel? Not really. Even though giant passenger jets do guzzle down fuel at a ridiculous 0.67 miles per…

The future looks dark for coal miner Peabody. America’s biggest provider of the fossil fuel has admitted that it may…

Nepal is home to the best climbing, trekking and mountaineering on earth. But, earlier this year, it also had a massive…

Jet airplanes load up with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel for transcontinental flights, which can lead to massive…

In the ongoing search for a non-nuclear energy, Fukushima could find a partial answer in living, green, microalgae. And…

For the first time ever, coal has been unseated as America’s largest source of fuel to generate electricity. As of…

Yowza. That burns hot. Watch as a Petrogen Multi-Fuel cutting torch nicks right through a stack of metal and cuts it…

The UK’s poop-powered bus is officially one fast son-of-a-bitch. As reported Friday by Ars Technica, the bus recently…

The practice of pricing fuel with a fraction of a penny is thought to have started around the 1930s. While we can’t be…

America has the Tesla electric car, Britain has... a poop bus. Bristol Airport now has a bus that will shuttle people…

Even after Deepwater Horizon we're still not ready for the next big spill—but that doesn't mean we're not trying.…

Now here's some welcome innovation in the airline industry. Southwest Airlines announced today that it will be using…

E. coli is an exceedingly common bacteria that lives in many places including your very own gut. It's also a favorite…

It's a problem as old as sailing itself. Ever since man set out sea, barnacles have been clinging like, well, barnacles…

Astronauts have been able to drink their own (treated and filtered) urine for years, but thanks to a new technique,…