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Kristof Retezár While you're pedaling furiously on the uphills, your water bottle could be hard at work, too. Fontus, a water bottle that takes in moisture from surrounding air, can produce clean, drinkable water in und...

YouTube/Japan Times In 2011, a tsunami initiated by an earthquake caused a massive nuclear meltdown in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Although the Tokyo Electric Power Company has worked to reduce the amount of...

Nearly half of young black men in Chicago are neither in school nor working, far exceeding the share nationally and in comparable big cities, according to a new report. Forty-seven percent of 20- to 24-year-old black men...

Plummeting prices, U.S.-led sanctions and diminished oil exploration raise questions about the capacity of Russia's oil industry to continue underwriting President Vladimir Putin's ambitions at home and abroad.

Traders and portfolio managers worry that sophisticated institutional investors, who generally tend to take a longer-term view, have been the ones driving the selling over the last six months.

3D printing has loomed on the horizon for many years. Only now has the technology advanced to such an extent that we can confidently say 3D printing is becoming a practical part of the way businesses operate today.

Atomic 212 In 2017, approximately 132 billion business emails will be sent and received per day, according to The Radicati Group. But Australian media agency Atomic 212 won't be contributing to that statistic. "We've to...

Yan-Hong Nie Autism, a complex set of brain disorders of social interaction and communication, has been widely studied in lab animals — but most of the research has been in mice, whose brains are very different from t...

Another drop in energy prices is dragging down oil and gas companies' stocks in early trading, leading the overall market lower. Chevron fell 2% shortly after the opening bell Monday, and Exxon Mobil lost more than 1%. T...

Twitter Inc. says four executives are leaving the company. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey posted a statement to the microblogging service saying that Alex Roetter, Skip Schipper, Katie Stanton and Kevin Weil are exiting. Do...

New year, new podcasts -- that's how the saying goes, right? Now that your aspirations to lose weight and be nicer have dissolved in this winter weather like so many Vitamin C-fortified tablets in a drink, it's time to m...

Stifel analysts downgraded Twitter on news of four executive departures, while SunTrust analysts still see hope for the company.

WSJ Theranos has had a fairly quiet 2016 up until now. The controversial blood-testing startup ran into trouble late in 2015 after The Wall Street Journal launched a series of pieces that questioned the company's finger-...

Japan's trade deficit fell to its lowest level in four years in 2015, the Finance Ministry reported Monday, as import costs dropped thanks to the collapse in oil prices.

Workers at many companies now face stiff financial penalties for refusing to undergo health screenings.

Ben Cohen, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, has created a new Bernie-Sanders-themed ice-cream flavor.

Flickr / Niall Kennedy Sometimes it's easier to do something yourself than to take the time to teach someone else how to do it. But it's not always the best move in the long run. In a recent interview with Adam Bryant of...

Brain-boosting activities don't have to feel like homework. NOW WATCH: Scientists can't explain these mysterious spots on one of Saturn's most remarkable moons

Economists at U.S. companies are less optimistic about the nation's economic growth but are upbeat about wage increases for workers, according to results of a closely watched private survey released Monday. For the first...

Economic growth and environmental sustainability have often be seen as mutually exclusive. It seemed like countries could not really boost their GDP without sacrificing a bit of sustainability.

Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing (李嘉誠）might be the first Hong Kong tycoon to be accused of abandoning the motherland at a time of sharp economic downturn. He is not the last. This month, the Cheng family of New...