Tracy Moran

We hear it from smokers struggling to quit all the time: "If only they'd make it illegal, then I'd have to quit."

A fifth of the world's population sucks on cancer sticks, and while the West has cleared the air in some places with public bans, the global consumption rate ...

In a head-spinning step, a handful of researchers from Cambridge, England, are experimenting with one of man's oldest building materials — the kind from trees — instead of steel as the primary structure for big buildings. And they're aiming really, really high.

Already, there is one timber apartment building with ...