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(Reuters) - The U.S. government proposed protecting old-growth forests in Idaho and Washington state on Tuesday to save the nation's dwindling population of mountain caribou, popularly known as wild reindeer. [More]

iStockphoto/kali9 More and more physicians are investing in their own imaging equipment. But when a doctor stands to make money on each MRI he or she orders, it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that they might be inclined to order too many scans. [More]

The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson and the Center for Snake Conservation in Louisville, Colo., have put up a $500 reward for evidence that the South Florida rainbow snake ( Farancia erytrogramma seminola ) is not extinct, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared in October [pdf].

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Spotify To Enable Third Party App Access . Spotify boss Daniel Ek has just revealed his music streaming website will enable third party HTML5 apps to integrate right into the Spotify platform

The notion that robots must be rigid metallic automatons made mobile by wheels, tracks or even legs has constrained the imagination of their designers. The weight of all those rods, gears and motors quickly adds up, and complex mechanical and electrical control systems are needed for robots to handle delicate objects or navigate across different types of terrain. [More]

Path steps away from the "photo-sharing" category and firmly joins the emerging rank of apps--from Facebook to Erly--that are devising ways to create digital scrapbooks of our lives. When Path launched a little over a year ago, many people were puzzled: Why would an app that was about sharing photos let you only share with 50 people

In May, cloud-based enterprise company Salesforce.com acquired

Energy efficiency is not just for appliances and vehicles on Earth--spacecraft that conserve fuel can provide a boost to humanity, too. In a recent article for

In 1977, 22-year-old Steve Jobs introduced the world to one of the first self-contained personal computers, the Apple II.

When I was in fifth grade, my brother Alex started correcting my homework. This would not have been weird, except that he was in kindergarten--and autistic

Facebook will likely go public by next summer, making its founder Mark Zuckerberg (even more) stinking rich. Clearly, the 27-year-old has done a few things right.

For the Xhosa in South Africa, a boy's coming of age is often marked by an elaborate and lengthy set of rituals. One of the ordeals is circumcision , which is traditionally performed by a healer and occasionally leads to an ineffective cut, infection or even death. The young men who emerge from the ceremony healthy, however, achieve not only new social status but are also much less likely to become infected with HIV

After more than 15 years of international climate negotiations, it has become ever more clear that all the carbon dioxide emitted to shuttle diplomats from city to city to hash out a regime to curb climate change has been largely wasted. The success of harried diplomacy in Kyoto in 1997 has given way to Japan buying its way out of emissions reductions in 2011 and refusing to sign up for more.

Two researchers at Columbia University in New York say they've found a flaw in ordinary office printers that lets hackers hijack the devices to spy on users, spread malware and even force them to overheat to the point of catching fire. [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature of magazine With sales of more than $100 billion since it was introduced in 1997, the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor (atorvastatin) is an unparalleled pharmaceutical superstar.