Reduce light pollution to avoid insomnia, cataracts and other health issues — as well as save energy and preserve ecosystems.

The Bortle Light Pollution Scale is a good model for understanding how tainted our night skies are by light pollution.

Skylines and landmarks from across the globe turn off their lights for 60 minutes in celebration of Earth Hour.

Deadlier than Glenn Close with a kitchen knife, light's 'fatal attraction' kills millions of birds each year.

Time-lapse artists and filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović traveled North America and photographed the impact of light pollution in ‘SKYGLOW.’

If you think it looks cool, wait till you see its caterpillars.

Researchers are trying to better understand how light pollution affects the endangered animals.

The latest from the SKYGLOW project looks at the sky from the river level of the Grand Canyon.

Will Kindles save the rainforest? Now that Amazon’s debuted its new $359 Kindle, an e-reader available Feb. 24, e-reader and e-book marketers alike are busy b

Among other things, Rob Kutner thinks we're on the verge of a new Ice Age.

This weekend, before your kids hit the baseball and softball fields, read about how energy and sports drinks can damage tooth enamel, plus take a look at a few

Amazon honors National Bullying Prevention Month with a daily deal on two titles that help empower kids against bullies.

Scare up some family reading fun with these Halloween ebooks filled with ghosts, and goblins, and freaky Halloween legends.

A round up of online stores that have coupon codes, free shipping, and special Cyber Monday deals for cookware, appliances, cookbooks, natural cleaning products

A list of tips and sources of finding deeply discounted and free cookbooks for Kindle.

This step-by-step Kindle book will help families of all sizes get home-cooked meals on the table.

After amassing a collection of cookbooks and other book on her Kindle, our food blogger tries out the Book Collections app to organize them.

In honor of Julia Child’s 101st birthday, Kindle is offering 'As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto' at a bargain price for one day.

Guide to pulling off a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with style from the former New York Times restaurant critic is a bargain.

ames Beard Award winner Elissa Altman's book about her relationships with food and those she loves is a bargain right now for Kindle.

New meta-trackers integrate data for an overall view of users' activity and aim to find hidden connections that might help users improve their lives.

These apps make shopping convenient with capabilities like visual searches, price comparisons and recommendations.

Business doesn't stop just because you're snowed in.

Introverts rejoice at the launch of a new 'anti-social' media app that can help you avoid unpleasant situations.

On the occasion of the new mobile launch, we talked to the FarmVille animators about how the country critters come to (virtual) life.

New empathy-building app lets you swap lives with people you don’t know.

A new app has launched in the Philadelphia region with guides to sustainable businesses in 20 categories.

These apps work in conjunction with store sales and printed coupons to help you make the most out of your holiday grocery budget.

If you’re unfamiliar with grape varieties like Assyrtiko, this app will teach you the basics, including pronunciations.

Recycling or donating your old iPhone is sensible. But these projects are much more fun.

Shared mobile health app will allow doctors to monitor a patient's health in real-time — and intervene before a hospital visit is needed.

Here's how to capture gorgeous close-up photos in any scenario, with nothing but your smartphone and an affordable lens attachment.

A new study finds that we cannot remember phone numbers anymore. Shocking!

The design world is agog at its ugliness, and the fact that it was needed in the first place.

If you use apps like SavingStar or ibotta, you'll want to know about these apps, too.

From toilets (which keep you healthy) to phone connections (that don't need wires), we've never had it so good.

The company will do the work for you.

NBC’s Adrienne Mong ventures inside one of China’s fake Apple stores to look at the bogus products being sold under the guise of the legitimate American tec

Orangutans are great communicators, whether through sign language, gestures or sounds. Now, trainers at Jungle Island in Miami are using technology to help the

A week after an Apple spokesman downplayed the lackluster Maps app in iOS 6 by saying, "We are just getting started," CEO Tim Cook has a few words of his own fo

Accessory manufacturers have confirmed rumors about Apple's new 7 inch iPad Mini, which is set to be unveiled on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at a press conference.

This all-article, no-recipe magazine about food and cooking packs a lot into its first free issue.

This is one fun way to learn a language and play with your food.

From magnifiers to medication trackers, these apps can help savvy seniors stay on track.

This worry-free form of the popular multimedia chatting app limits children's activities to drawing and taking photos to store on your device.

Apple's app store hasMark Bittman’s go-to book on the basics of how to cook just about anything you can imagine for free.

An addictive game and millions of micro-transactions equal success for King.

Apple’s suppliers are reportedly preparing to release a new miniature iPad in Q4 2013.

The technology industry is spurred by those who think ahead and think big — but these predictions were all wrong.

Improve your study habits and track your learning progress with these 5 study-aid apps.