Both companies yanked ads from The Learning Channel’s "All-American Muslim." That's when the trouble started. But all is not lost--companies and brands that want to avoid losing customers because of a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease can find their way back again.

Enzymes locked away in the stomachs of cows might help us manufacture biofuels more quickly and cheaply. That's according to a new paper in Science, published online today.

I spoke to Dr. Eddy Rubin, one of the authors of the study and director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute. He explained that burning biofuel -- fuel made from plant material -- can be, gallon per gallon, up to 10 times less polluting than fossil fuel.

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned in early 2011 that California would inevitably experience a winter megastorm--a big one. It might not happen this year, or next. But, based on California's history of storms in the past, another winter megastorm will happen sometime, these scientists say.

An English inventor has come up with a sturdy papier-mache bottle that can be recycled or composted. So how does it work?

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Why do we love music so? A new study suggests it is because listening to music releases dopamine, the same brain chemical associated with food, drugs, and sex.

Is bottled water slightly better if you're foregoing funneling remote mountain springs into plastic containers, and bottling recycled wastewater instead?

The 26-year-old paper billionaire says he will donate half of his wealth to charity.