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UGG boots, the fuzzy-lined sheepskin boots best known for warming the toes of female celebs as they trot around Aspen and college girls as they trudge from class to class, are trying to recapture the interest of their original customer: dudes. As UGG Australia prepares to introduce its largest assortment ever of men’s styles for fall, the company has enlisted Patriots quarterback Tom Brady as the new face of UGGs for men.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that it is possible to reduce the minimum voltage necessary to store charge in a capacitor, an achievement that could reduce the power draw and heat generation of today's electronics.

The eBay-owned micro-investment vehicle is coming to the United States, starting with California's Freshworks Fund. If you have a few bucks, you can make some money while eradicating food deserts. The investment market has a high barrier to entry.

From Nature magazine Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.

U.S. products almost certainly have a market across the pond.

The next tournament in America for Tiger Woods will be in California. The question now is whether he can play another tournament in California at the end of the year.

Oil prices--which spiked during the start of revolts around the Middle East--have now come down due to low demand and a sluggish economy. Will the extra oil produced once the area calms down be enough to save the economy? With the Libyan Civil War winding down the question on the rebels' NATO allies now becomes : “When can we bring the oil fields back online?” It wasn’t until the Arab Spring arrived in Libya that worldwide oil prices really began to fluctuate, as the country's output of light sweet crude quickly dwindled from 1.3 million barrels a day to a mere 60,000, a loss equivalent to five percent of Europe’s total supply, or more than 15 percent of Italy’s, France’s, Switzerland’s and Austria’s

So much for range anxiety. A new study of people given a test EV found that every single one of them was happy with it as their primary car. It can seem crazy to think that electric vehicles will replace gasoline engines anytime in the near future: range anxiety, charging times, price, and plain old inertia are all touted as deal-killers

A new law in California would make it legal for Chevy Volts to use parking spots equipped with electric chargers. But does the law actually make it harder for electric car owners

If you have $60,000 to spare and like to show off to your neighbors, ClearEdge Power may have the product for you: a giant fuel cell that can power up your house, and perhaps take you entirely off the grid. Bloom Energy burst onto the clean energy scene last year with the Bloom Energy Server (you know it as the Bloom Box), a so-called fuel cell "power plant in a box" that can run on natural gas, hydrogen, or biogas. Bloom has cornered the big business fuel cell market, with installations at eBay's headquarters, multiple AT&T sites, Adobe's headquarters, and more

Last year 10 children died in California in the worst whooping cough outbreak to sweep the state since 1947. In the first six months of 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 10 measles outbreaks--the largest of which (21 cases) occurred in a Minnesota county, where many children were unvaccinated because of parental concerns about the safety of the standard MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. At least seven infants in the county who were too young to receive the MMR vaccine were infected.

A CEO has to weigh his ideals against financial reality The room was cool, but emotions were not.

From online deal sites and gamification to digital marketing and online payments, these Internet companies are reaping all of the benefits with none of the brick and mortar overhead. Paul Hurley, CEO New York City No. 1 2010 Revenue: $77.7 million Three-Year Growth: 40,882% Founded in 2006 and based in New York City, ideeli has pioneered the idea of the flash deals site and is the Inc.

Find out what happens when a journalist crowdsources a piece about a crowdsource company to the people who work there. From DARPA soliciting the masses to design aspects of next generation combat vehicles , to

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Scientists in California are reporting raised levels of radioactive chemicals in the atmosphere in the weeks following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [More]