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Lights that transmit data, Borders closes, prizes for small businesses, and more. First Wi-Fi, now Li-Fi?

Break a business plan into bite-sized pieces, to focus on what matters most right now. The first of a three-part series

AIDS experts worldwide excited over reports of reduced HIV transmission rates from two drug prevention studies

Adam Segal, one of the Council on Foreign Relations' top experts on China and technology, talks to Fast Company about what's special about Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese fears of NSA backdoors, and bored East Asian teenagers. Cyberwarfare in 2011 is an odd beast

Childhood obesity is unhealthy and dangerous - is it time for the government to intervene? Obesity experts seem to think so

Successful batters often report that the baseball looked “huge” just before they hit a home run. This effect, dubbed action-specific perception, has been noted for years in all kinds of physical activities. Yet questions remain about why the illusion happens

Will al Qaeda respond to the death of Osama bin Laden with serious cyberattacks? The short answer is no.

Distracted exercising may come with risks similar to those of distracted driving: Last year, for the first time in four years, pedestrian deaths rose — experts are blaming our beloved, never-leave-home-without-'em gadgets.

A pilot episode of It Ain't Rocket Science , an original, family-friendly television show that Time Warner Cable has created as part of its Connect a Million Minds venture, aired June 24 on NY1. The program shares information about STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) topics, aiming to cultivate a love of science in children through informational segments and interviews with experts--such as Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina. [More]

FanGo makes a sports app that lets fans order food from the concession stand using their phones. Can it raise $435,000

Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husbands and her doctors advice that she slow down. She has since divorced and opened a fourth store. The best medicine Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husband's and her doctors' advice that she slow down.

With business on the rocks, Susan Southerland was cutting back on everything. Could she really fire her best pal?

Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you can speed up your prototyping process to get your invention or product to market faster. One of the most famous stories of prototyping done quickly, cheaply and spot-on came from the inventor of the cyclone vacuum

Six-member panel of cancer experts said studies show drug to be ineffective, unsafe