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It seems unlikely that the maker of hundred-million-dollar Hollywood blockbusters such as Armageddon and The Transformers could inspire scientists to develop an ultralow-cost tool for quickly sensing airborne chemical weapons . Yet one former University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (U.M.) researcher says his idea to use a nerve-gas antidote to create an inexpensive litmus paper–like nerve-gas sensor emerged shortly after watching The Rock on DVD a few years ago.

The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S.

Yoga and relaxation practices have been around for thousands of years. And modern research suggests that yoga could have a very real impact on many stress-related illnesses, including anxiety, depression and heart disease. [More]

AUSTIN, Texas Just two companies Verizon Wireless and AT&T control 60 percent of the U.S. wireless market. Four companies control 90 percent.

Previous studies have vastly underestimated the carbon footprint of the Canadian oil sands by not considering the industry's impact on peatlands, according to new research. [More]

It’s been a rough year for Western Australia’s iconic but endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos ( Calyptorhynchus latirostris ), which are endemic to the state and live nowhere else in the world.

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Who would have thought that a ringside seat at some of the Universe's most extreme events could come cheap? But by the standards of space-based astronomy, the NuSTAR telescope that NASA plans to launch as early as this month has a modest budget, US$165 million. [More]

An active severe weather season is anticipated in the U.S. during spring of 2012 with the most widespread warmth since 2004. [More]

Jason Egan does not walk, talk or eat like most nine-year-olds. He gets around in a wheelchair and depends on a feeding tube threaded into his stomach.

The EPA is offering $125,000 for citizen science projects in New York City [More]

With winnings from "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," Nik Bonaddio created a predictive sports system Billy Beane would be proud of. Nik Bonaddio was in the hot seat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire one night back in 2009. He had coasted through the first few questions.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Last.fm To Track Music With Musicmetric . Music artists now have a new free tool to track how their audiences are responding to their content on the web

Movies and television shows are full of scenes where a man tries unsuccessfully to interact with a pretty woman.

Life is too complex to be described by a simple food chain. Food webs offer a three-dimensional representation of predator–prey relationships within a habitat, providing a more nuanced view of the myriad connections between species

Humans have harvested the sea for tens of thousands of years, but only in the past few centuries have we begun to take a big toll on ecosystems. The two food webs below show predatory relationships among life-forms in the northern Adriatic Sea.