Take a look at the nutritional benefits of 5 popular tree nuts, and you'll realize nuts are a great snack!

Aflac employee and Auburn alumnus rallies colleagues to raise more than $70,000 for boy with leukemia.

An Aflac CSR Hero volunteers to instill a sense of purpose and confidence in New Hampshire children who need it most.

Sea slugs could tell us a lot about why we fall into a food coma.

It's not just that your mom encourages second helpings. Studies show that a phenomenon called "social facilitation" is one factor in why we overeat with others.

A new study seeks to define what a 'hyper-palatable' food is, and how they're specifically designed to make us eat more than we should.

The holiday season is a weighted one, full of food and food-pushers. Here's how to gently, but firmly, stand your ground.

With careful planning and strategic shopping, you can prep a week's worth of soup so that getting dinner on the table isn't so hard.

Sneak preview of National Geographic's investigation on climate change, agribusiness and the global food crisis.

Sneak preview of National Geographic's investigation on climate change, agribusiness and the global food crisis.

Kid Rock is using a sustainable brewery to brew his new American Badass Beer.

Carbon Motors' E7 is a purpose-built cop car headed for the market in 2013 (assuming a $300 million government loan comes through). And it's got a BMW turbo die

Diesels were noisy, smelly, polluting and slow. They're not anymore. Clean diesel is a real alternative, with 650-mile range one big benefit.

First North American Biochar Convention pulls in top Obama brass and puts this fledgling industry on the map.

Sunlight in the form of fuel? A breakthrough new discovery brings science one step closer to creating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.

Facility makes DNA parts for biologists to use in experiments.

The new materials could one day be used for building devices that have the properties of living things, such as the ability to self-heal.

Signals that coordinate the rhythms of our heart and lungs offer inspiration for creating 'unbreakable' security codes.

Breakthrough technology could make long-distance space travel feasible, clean our air here on Earth, and even combat global warming.

Gloves designed after a gecko's feet allow human climbers to scale walls with ease.

Researchers have learned how to compensate for imperfections in a honeycomb lattice that could lead to new advances in architecture.

Those baby blues mean something, but perhaps not what you think.

Quantum theory offers an answer to one of the oldest and most fundamental questions in biochemistry.

Wired's video series, 'Five Levels of Difficulty,' challenges an expert to explain a complicated concept to people at five levels of expertise — and it's cool.

Researchers working on the ASSISI project recently tested the limits of interspecies communication by constructing a makeshift robot translator.

The Spanish tipple is no longer just for tapas. This fortified, food-friendly wine is having a revival among cocktail enthusiasts.

Italians have mastered 'la dolce far niente' and so should you.

In 10 or 20 years, we're going to need a lot of buildings like this senior living community in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle — resilient and efficient.

Smog in northern India is so bad, it's the equivalent of smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

Even partial shade can dramatically cut an entire solar array's output — but not any more. An award-winning team believes it has the answer.

New documentary from the director of 'Fuel' and 'The Big Fix' offers real alternatives to fossil fuels.

Increased renewables, decreased emissions and falling energy prices. Germany's ambitious energy plan may be starting to pay off.

The conceptual Dutch Windwheel takes the term 'mixed-use development' to dizzying new extremes.

Build enough Powerwall batteries and you can run the world on renewable resources.

The Swedish furniture giant is spending staggering amounts on renewables and climate adaptation, putting entire countries to shame.

Developers hope the design will bring affordable lighting to people worldwide who live along the coast.

U.N. task force looks at turning one big problem into an energy resource.

No outlet needed for this lamp — just plug it into the nearest plant.

The same thing that keeps the lights on and appliances humming tastes great on a cracker.

Massive investment coupled with falling prices has created a perfect renewable storm in the Golden State.

Your next camping trip should include this camp stove, which is capable of efficiently burning biomass materials like pine needles, small twigs and wood chips.

Sure, you've seen classics like 'A Christmas Story' and 'Miracle on 34th Street.' But have you heard of 'Holiday in Handcuffs'? We didn't think so.

Watch street magician Andrew Mayne knock people's socks off with these eight stunts.

Luxury treehouse on Orcas Island in Washington state is truly a unique getaway.

A freewheeling conversation with the 'World War Z' author on Bear Grylls, Rambo and the 'Casablanca' musical his 10-year-old son is writing.

New book about the painkiller industry has already been optioned by Warner Bros.

Politically active Facebook users are much more likely to "unfriend" people, a new study finds.

Atlanta to Appalachia columnist Benyamin Cohen and his wife prepare for the arrival of their first chicks — and the wide new world of raising chickens.

Author John Temple was granted unprecedented access to the controversial family.

A dozen of my dogs' cousins got spoiled and are returning for more spa treatments and manicures. Here's what went down at our first spawtacular pug party.