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The townhouse on 4310 St. NW was just like any other family-sized unit in DC. Then the developers at energy-efficient-building company True Turtle Real Estate and construction-management firm C.A.T.

A joint French-U.S. research team made nanotech history this month by constructing a first-ever molecular motor that sports an array of “rotor blades” that one can turn clockwise or counterclockwise.

Singapore and the United States hold one trait very much in common: Both face external security threats and must exercise foresight to avert them. In fact, the United States could boost its own security considerably by adopting some of Singapore’s national-security-planning practices.

Moving files and programs into clouds sounds great, but how secure will they be? Business and organization leaders everywhere are asking this, and many remain undecided on the answer. They wonder whether they really should trust the cloud with their most sensitive records.

Cloud computing made big strides forward in 2012, and if a host of industry experts proves correct, it will make even bigger advances in 2013.

Hold a mobile phone and you hold a piece of the biggest technological and learning platform in history—and incidentally, it’s a platform that’s revolutionizing life in general around the world.

Tape recorders, portable music players, digital cameras—mobile phones and their apps are already substituting for, or even replacing, many such products that used to be ubiquitous in everyday life. Don’t be surprised if they soon stand in for car keys and credit cards, as well.

Chemical toxins are an increasingly serious threat to human and environmental health worldwide, according to Global Chemicals Outlook, a report that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released on September 5.

Although digital divides between the world’s industrialized and developing areas loom large, development experts are finding ways to cross them.

A huge step forward for family planning worldwide took place Wednesday, July 11, in London, where more than 200 leaders of the world’s governments, foundations, corporations, and nonprofit groups convened and committed a whopping $2.6 billion over the next eight years toward provision of contraceptive supplies, services, and information throughout developing-world communities.