The CeBIT 2010, the world's largest expo for ICT industry, was jointly inaugurated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Prince Albert of the house of Thurn und Taxis wants to build what would be the world's largest solar park on his lands. But the plans have angered residents who don't want to live next to a sea of solar panels.

A consortium including Germany's RWE, E.ON and Siemens was  issued permits by Britain Friday to develop offshore wind farms that will generate enough power to supply every home in the U.K.

The European Commission Thursday handed out over $1.4 billion in contracts to build and launch the first 14 satellites of Galileo, Europe's answer to GPS.

A German computer scientist has cracked the encryption algorithm that secures 80 per cent of the world's mobile phones, but it's far from a practical attack.

A young Austrian man has become the first European to drive a car with thought-powered prosthetic arms, German company Otto Bock announced on Tuesday. 

Students from Darmstadt won top honors by designing, building, and operating the most attractive and efficient solar-powered home, the U.S. Department announced on Friday.

Giant publisher Holtzbrinck and regional logistics firms are introducing a hybrid postal service that would deliver the mail faster and more efficiently.

Plans to build up to 40 offshore wind farms could lead to thousands of new jobs in the renewable energy sector and lower Germany's dependence on nuclear energy.

The world's biggest consumer electronics trade fair opened today in Berlin, defying the financial crisis and falling consumer demand.

The technology start-up scene in Germany's capital is thriving, reports Sabine Devins for the online newspaper The Local.

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The largest solar park in the world went on the grid in Germany on Thursday. It demonstrates new standards in cost-efficiency for solar power. And if solar is viable there, just imagine the efficiencies possible where the sun really shines!

The German government has called for the country to launch an unmanned mission to the moon by 2015. The project would boost research, but currently there's little money for the project.

A German-led consortium agreed to draw up blueprints for one of the biggest solar energy projects ever conceived. But some experts are sceptical because they believe that the costs cannot be calculated.

Citizens of a village in central Germany can use their mobile phone to switch on a street lamp  as part of an effort to save energy.

Twenty years ago this month, a software consultant named Tim Berners-Lee hatched a plan for an open computer network to keep track of research at the particle physics laboratory in the suburbs of Geneva. His proposal would become the blueprint for the World Wide Web.

The center of Berlin will be connected by a free wireless internet service as part of a public project. The local council plans to install Wi-fi on traffic lights.

European Union nations agreed Monday to phase out sales of standard light bulbs by 2012 as part of their efforts to save energy and reduce global warming

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla believes a huge patch of desert could produce all the electricity the US requires if we focus on solar thermal plants. Power from thermal costs less than power from solar panels already.

In the waning days of the regulation-hating Bush Administration the Environmental Protection Agency has in effect suspended all new construction of coal burning power plants. Why is this?

Space engineer Jesco von Puttkamer will be honored as “Distinguished German-American of the Year” at a fundraiser in December, the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA announced today. Puttkamer joined Wernher von Braun’s team of rocket scientists in Huntsville, Alabama nearly half a century ago.