Switching out some surprisingly toxic household products for cleaner, greener alternatives can help save your health, money and the planet.

Traveling in the states this summer? You’ll want to follow this Facebook page to help you find farm-to-table restaurants all over the country.

This book with blessings from many cultures and religions will make practicing gratitude for food, family and friends a renewed experience.

Yes, says a new campaign that champions backyard pools as a drought-friendlier landscaping alternative.

The Ooho 'water bottle' is a gelatinous blob that allows you to have your bottled water (minus the plastic) and eat it too.

Are you a cyberslacker? Turns out checking Facebook and laughing at LOLcats makes you a more productive worker, research shows.

Researchers propose developing nanobots that connect our brains with the cloud.

NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a "human-tended waypoint" near the far side of the moon — one that would embrace international partnerships

These critical elements are abundant in Alaska's Bokan Mountain, but extracting them could be a long and difficult process.

From fission and fusion to biomaterials, NASA hopes these innovations will benefit Earth and space science.

Scientists have developed a glass that changes from opaque to transparent and can be adjusted for different wavelengths of light.

Updated standards for furnaces and furnace fans, combined, could save consumers roughly $37 billion over three decades.

This fraudster has an overactive imagination.

Technology projects a touchscreen onto your hand, clothes, a wall, or any surface, so you can operate your phone without removing it from your pocket.

Why does the North Dakota outpost of Williston have the highest rents for a one-bedroom apartment in the entire country according to a new survey?

A new coalition of Japanese tour operators is trying to seize on the country's waning interest in killing wild cetaceans.

Buying for back to school can add up, so check out these tips to make getting your kids back to class a leaner and greener experience.

Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for The Rolling Stones and the cofounder of MNN, sits down with noted environmentalist Ray Anderson of Interface Inc. Anderson, a not

NASA is getting ready to launch a daring test flight of a capsule that could eventually bring humans to deep-space destinations like Mars or an asteroid.

Intriguing features photographed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity probably don't have a biological origin, mission team members say.

Paying taxes is an inescapable reality — even in space.

Extraterrestrial business questions about asteroids and spaceflight finally answered.

Holiday gift ideas for future astronauts and solar system aficionados.

NASA unveils new spacesuit for the first woman and next man to wear on the moon in 2024 and eventually Mars.

Goat farmers 'The Fabulous Beekman Boys' take million dollar prize on 'The Amazing Race' after a rocky season.

Event showcased the latest green products to eat, wear, and buy.

Meet the environmental organizations wielding the power of Facebook to inspire, educate and advocate for the planet.

Parents and teens should be on the lookout for this new privacy setting that affects 13- to 17-year-olds.

A new quiz making waves across Facebook has many users changing their profile photos to pictures of giraffes, all in the name of good fun.

Facebook knows who your romantic partner is, even if you keep that information private, and can even predict if the relationship will last.

Why actually create your own status updates when your computer can do it for you?

World Wildlife Fund, the Red Cross and UNICEF are among the first users of the new "Donate Now" button.

Comedians Tripp and Tyler have envisioned a funny — and much more accurate — Facebook movie of their own.

The boy who eats lunch alone in the school office everyday because no one will sit with him now has more than 1.2 million likes on his Facebook birthday page.

Facebook tops the list of the country's best companies for internships.

Facebook is in talks to buy a drone company that manufactures ultra-lightweight, solar-powered planes.

Feeling down? Happy? Angry? No matter how you're feeling, you can now blame it on your friends' most recent Facebook posts.

The social network's acquisition of the makers of the Oculus Rift headset promises to change the way we experience online media.

Years of futile searching didn't work, but a single Facebook plea connects the two women in less than 24 hours.

Back in 1971, Jane Goodall observed a group of chimps break out in civil war. Now new social network analysis offers an explanation for this violent behavior.

New research finds some surprising reasons that people air all of that drama on Facebook.

Many of the social media network's users were outraged to learn they could've been unwitting participants in the study.

The '99 Days of Freedom' project has launched an experiment promoting happiness by helping users give up the social networking site.

One Australian is on a mission to have coffee, one-on-one, with each of his 1,088 Facebook friends. The question is, would you want to do that?

The idea grew out of disaster message boards that sprung up on Facebook after Japan's most recent natural disaster.

The number of updates you make a day, how often you use the 'like' button and even your photo album organization can tell your Facebook friends a lot about you.

Have you noticed a plethora of puppies on your Facebook page? This is why people are posting them.

New research shows that just clicking the 'like' button reveals more about us than we realize.

The social media giant has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help get out the word when kids are in danger.

For many Facebook users, the urge to like a kitten video or snoop on a high-school flame is almost irresistible.