Smart new sunglasses could instantly change into virtually any color on demand with just a turn of a tiny electronic knob on their frames.

A biodegradable plastic that dissolves into nontoxic components in seawater could make it environmentally safe to ditch "disposable" forks, spoons, wraps and other such waste overboard from ships to free up valuable space.

Cell phones and iPods could soon be made with all-plastic chips that would allow the gadgets to survive being dropped over and over, thanks to work of a Dutch researcher.

Researchers discovered twins who are identical on their mom's side of the equation but share only half their genes from dad.

People refer to "Darwin's finches" from time to time as a symbol of evolution in the Galápagos Islands, but the father of evolutionary theory actually dropped the ball on those birds, collecting better details on mockingbirds, tortoises and other species.

In the hills of the Appalachia, scientists spotted a new species of bamboo called hill cane. Dubbed Arundinaria appalachiana, the plant differs from the other two native North American bamboo species in that it drops its leaves in the fall.