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A new white paper asserts that if you want to build a company, an advanced degree in a subject like engineering beats an MBA any day.

So you want to change the world? Cynics may send you off to Wall Street or a white-shoe law firm. Those with gumption will look for another way.

Natural gas produced in the Marcellus Shale gas basin in Pennsylvania and New York is not as big a contributor to climate change as coal, according to a study of the "life cycle" greenhouse gas emissions of natural gas by researchers in Pittsburgh.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apple Goes To War, Legally, Against Fake Apple Stores . Apple , among numerous moves to protect its IP at the moment, has filed suit in New York to shutter "fake" Apple stores that try to capture some of the look and feel of the real stores, but aren't necessarily approved resellers.

Can our expectations for the future change how we remember the past? According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology , they can--we remember unpleasant experiences more negatively if we expect to endure them again. Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people’s expectations shape their memories

Google just bought a high-tech face recognition unit called Pitt Patt.

If you're into technology that can stroll convincingly like a human, or creep, roll, climb, spy, and even deliver drinks with uncanny mechanical smoothness, then you've come to the right place. In our second installment of This Week In Bots we share tiny flying drones, amazing magnetic climbing spy machines...and a friendly NASA thespian robot

Decades of optimization have made the electronic switch both tiny and efficient.

Imagine snapping a panoramic picture from the top of the Empire State Building, then zooming in on a speck to reveal a quarter lying on the sidewalk. That’s the promise of single-shot gigapixel cameras--cameras that shoot images composed of at least one billion pixels, or picture elements