Beyond Ribbon Cutting

When we started Fixes, we were hoping that interested readers would write in with their own ideas and experiences.  Anyone who read the comments on our debut column, &...

The Electric Car Industry Is Going To Make You Love Them

How many people are ready to kick the century-old gasoline habit?

American car buyers are signing for more electric cars than ever, and more manufacturers are enter...

Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People A Year — Over Half Of Them In China, India

Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mort...

The People Building Elon Musk's Hyperloop

The hyperloop, Elon Musk’s futuristic, tube-based “fifth mode of transportation” has stoked imaginations unlike any recent transportation technology ...

Elon Musk On The Hyperloop: 'I’m Starting To Think It’s Really Going To Happen'

Hyperloops will use partially pressurized tubes to propel “pods” or passenger cars on a bed of air at speeds of up to 760 mph. SpaceX hosted a competition this ...

Amazing Things Happened When New Delhi Halved The Number Of Cars On The Road

On January 1, India's capital made an attempt to address its status as the world's most polluted big city, according to the World Health Organization, by implementing a tem...

The World Is Paying A High Price For More Frequent Extreme Weather Eventsa

"Weather and climate are major drivers of disaster risk and this report demonstrates that the world is paying a high price in lives lost," Margareta Wahlstr?m, head of UNIS...

Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive

A newly-awarded research grant from the National Science Foundation is devoting $300,000 to a project to study the ways that bumblebees navigate, and to apply tha...

Self-Driving Cars Are Coming To Canadian Roads In 2016

In a bid to compete with the US on developing self-driving cars—technologies that companies such as Google and Tesla are already working on—self-driving cars ca...