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Palestine has grabbed the lion’s share of attention at the U.N. [More]

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine A 90-year-old tuft of hair has yielded the first complete genome of an Aboriginal Australian, a young man who lived in southwest Australia. [More]

NAMCHE BAZAAR, Nepal -- By this time next month, Kancha Sherpa will, once again, become a busy man. At 79, he is the last man living among the 103 guides who accompanied the famous mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful 1953 expedition to Everest. Come peak tourist season in this ancient village of Internet cafes, Nepali crafts and gear shops that serves as the gateway to Mount Everest Base Camp, Kancha Sherpa will be besieged by journalists and climbers alike eager to hear his memories of the ascent

Bill Nguyen recently told Fast Company "Facebook is broken." So why is he planning to re-introduce Color, his flop of a $41 million app, in conjunction with Facebook and its f8 developers conference? Nguyen explains.

Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some companies are putting versions of their products--called "canvas apps"--directly in Facebook, like music companies that will let people listen to their music right inside the social network. Yahoo, however, is taking a different tack

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have reconstructed the internal “movie” that plays in a person’s head. [More]

Among the many reasons I chose to pursue physics was the desire to do something that would have a permanent impact. If I was going to invest so much time, energy and commitment, I wanted it to be for something with a claim to longevity and truth.

In an extended interview, astronaut Ron Garan speaks with Fast Company about his nerve-wracking return to earth, what technology startups should develop for space travel, and life on the International Space Station. "We really need to start not just exploring space," Garan says, "but utilizing space." NASA astronaut Ron Garan has an amazing story to tell.

Go big or go home? Forget that. These strategies for increasing your brand influence take hardly any time, and very little money.

The Minnesota Twins are my favorite baseball team. [More]

"Food is always more or less in demand," wrote Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations. [More]

A warm, fuzzy feeling toward your bobblehead dolls or a shoe collection, say, may reveal a lack of secure relationships, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology . [More]

Even if Taliban forces and opium warlords do not try to interfere with mining by Afghan or international companies, other factors could complicate commercialization. Challenges faced at the country’s largest development project, the planned copper mine at Aynak, 20 kilometers south of Kabul, are emblematic

We love our smart phones. Except when they run out of batteries. And we find ourselves cruelly cut off from the wireless world.

Just when you thought you’d heard every quantum mystery that was possible, out pops another one. [More]