Illinois has joined the ranks of states that allow their public road projects to use an asphalt mix that includes recycled shingles. Environmental advantages are just one of the benefits. With asphalt being made mostly of petroleum, the price savings on raw materials is significant (Missouri saved $20 million alone in 2009 by recycling shingles).
Glow in the dark road markings have been unveiled on a 500m stretch of highway in the Netherlands doing away with the need for streetlights -- and all the energy they require.
A professor of chemistry in Madurai, India believes the mounds of trash lining the roads and fields to be a "wonderful resource" for his country. The innovator created a method for building roads by transforming common plastic litter into a substitute for bitumen in asphalt.
Lauralie Mufute was disappointed in herself for forgetting the words to the national anthem – but thankfully, she had a compassionate crowd to help her out.
At an award ceremony Sunday, a star-studded cast of David Letterman's friends paid tribute to him at the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Just like in an action movie...
She noticed the 87-year-old's mail piling up so decided to take a look around- now, this mail carrier is a hero.
If you have never been on the actual "Wheel of Fortune" show, then have no fear - you can just use Anthony Alfano's Halloween costume instead.
Once again we set out on Halloween to de-bunk the myth that trick-or-treat candy is in need of an x-ray before our children are allowed to dig in. There has never been a single confirmed serious injury from "tainted treats" having been altered by a stranger since fears began spreading among the public in the late 50's.
Marking their first Halloween at the White House, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama honored military families at a Halloween party last night, doling out presidential candy and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters.
Spirit Halloween, the nation's largest Halloween retailer, launched Spirit of Children in 2006, a program created to bring Halloween to hospitals and rehabilitation centers for kids. The goal? To help make these places a little less scary.
Six-year-old Nico Castro from San Bruno, Calif., isn't letting his battle with brain cancer affect his spirit of giving this Halloween. After his doctor gave him the green light to go trick-or-treating thanks to a break in his chemotherapy, he began worrying about the other kids in the cancer ward who remain confined to beds.