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I wasn’t paying attention as I took a diagonal shortcut across Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square this August.

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When US presidential science adviser John Holdren hosted a dinner and meetings between US and Chinese science officials in May, he must have known it would lead to a high-level stand-off. [More]

CHENGDU, China -- A convoy of white vans barreled down a dusty road three hours south of this provincial capital in late September. Lush valleys were drying out after another long and turbulent rainy season. U.S.

A New York City translation tech venture, Smartling , today released a host of new features and services to help users translate their websites, mobile, and other digital content into many languages, quickly, affordably, and accurately.

The Cayman Islands are hoping to stem a loss of cruise passenger business by completing a controversial deal with a Chinese firm to build a $300 million dock to accommodate modern megaships.

Fun and Functions products for special-needs kids were a hit with parents.

When you dont need a full-time employee to do the task at hand, hire an e-lancer from one of these new companies. Call it the joblet recovery. With unemployment at 9 percent and 2012 looking bleak, many job seekers find themselves adrift in a modern version of the preindustrial piecework economy

Who will be next to get to the moon? Maybe China

Nobel Laureate Eddie Fischer was born in Shanghai in 1920. Since then, China has emerged as an economic superpower

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys A Thousand IBM Patents .

Freshlist--one of the most exciting projects to come out of the 24-hour Cleanweb Hackathon--connects sellers and buyers of local produce so nothing goes to waste.

* New station crew will not fly until problem found, fixed * Former commander says it is time to bring in the Chinese [More]

A 580-million-year-old fossil is casting doubt on the established tree of animal life.

iPhone 5 Release Date A source inside Apple has indicated to Fast Company that the iPhone 5 launch event may be in the week of the September 19th, or possibly the 26th--giving a short period for pre-orders before the device is launched in multiple countries at once on a date in the first week of October (a rumor that's increasingly been believable). Speculation about the release date has reached fever pitch, and Deutsche Telecom has taken the extraordinary step of announcing a pre-order service without having official confirmation of the delivery date to give to its customers

The latest batch of leaked State Department cables from WikiLeaks reveals the U.S. government's deep interest in how tech giants like Apple and Oracle perform overseas.