It's a battery that looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed. While the battery is only a prototype a few inches square right now, the researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who developed it have high hopes for it in electronics and other fields that need smaller, lighter power sources.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter is headed to the Arctic this week on a mapping mission to determine whether part of this area can be considered U.S. territory, after recent polar forays by Russia and Canada.

Making big cuts in emissions linked to global warming could trim U.S. economic growth by $400 billion to $1.8 trillion over the next four decades, a new study says.

Are your electric bills going through the roof? A solution just may be up there too:The roof is a great place to install solar collectors that convert the sun's energy directly into electricity.

he growing thirst for ethanol takes a lot of water to quench, but less than many people believe and not enough to cause serious problems, experts told farmers.

The Department of Energy should set an example in meeting President Bush's order to conserve energy and move to renewable sources, and for the nation as a whole, Bodman told the 2007 GovEnergy Conference, which teaches managers at all levels of government how to save energy.

Ford Motor Co. President and Chief Executive Alan Mulally said that federal regulations to improve fuel economy will cut into automakers' profits by pushing them to build more small cars than demand warrants.

The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development has pledged euro368 million (US$507 million) to help Ukraine build a new shelter for the Chernobyl reactor, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, officials said Monday.

A technical team from the United Nations nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran on Monday to discuss an "action plan" to give the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) more access to Iran's nuclear facilities.

Ash trees are being turned into park benches, baby furniture and baseball bats for Little Leaguers as cities around the Midwest try to get rid of millions of trees killed by a paper clip-size beetle.