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I’ve written before about the many ways that bacteria can move around. Considering that they’re just one cell long, micro-organisms have a whole range of ways to travel through their little world. Movement is useful for finding food and for changing your environment when all nearby resources have been exhausted

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok , a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. [More]

By The prototype for Google's HUD glasses has been seen, according to tech news site 9to5Google .

* Tokyo hopes to win local govts' approval -report * Will mark first restart of reactors since March 2011 quake [More]

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/lisegagne Those little pursed lips and that tiny crinkled nose might not just mean that your baby isn’t a fan of pureed peas or mashed sweet potatoes.

There’s a delectable irony in the fact that Facebook’s IPO was announced the same week as the Super Bowl. While they are both the subject of obsessive media attention, they actually represent two radically different versions of the future of branding and advertising.

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Anthrax courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Marcus007 The white powder that arrived in envelopes addressed to lawmakers and journalists in 2001 proved to be a deadly delivery for several people. The lethal substance spores commonly known as Anthrax (from the bacterium Bactillus anthracis ) can cause a toxic reaction in a host’s blood stream , killing cells and leading to tissue damage, bleeding and death

This stuffed coelacanth, described by Smith in 1939, achieved worldwide fame. Source . It was supposed to be extinct

PHILADELPHIA -- When the Allies needed a weapon terrible enough to end World War II, scientists devised the atomic bomb. When the Soviet Union hurled Sputnik into space, American scientists rallied to build the world's top space program

Satellite composite showing location of Vostok within the Antarctic continent (NASA) Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica’s central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok , after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia.

Yes, producing a podcast is a lot of work, but you are missing a major revenue driver if you don't.

The thought of shuffling off our mortal coil can make all of us a little squeamish.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Amazon Retail Store In Seattle? Amazon is rumored to be building a retail store near home base Seattle.

By Carey Gillam HALLSVILLE, Missouri (Reuters) - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country