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Scientific community weighs in on controversy that follows Oscar Pistorius' Cheetah prostheses

Mercedes Formula One team strikes deal to provide costly high-tech prosthesis to English teen born without left hand

Think Facebook and Twitter are all you need to get the word out about your new business? Here are eight more ways to get some media attention. Now that you’ve made the bold move of opening up your own business, you’re likely faced with the challenge of spreading the word about your goods or services to potential customers

Money can bring you happiness, studies show, but not as much as you might think.

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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys Motorola .

In study of 664 infants whose sibling had autism, 132 developed autism - or 19 percent

Recall by major grocery store chains affects mainly products sold in Southeastern U.S.

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic agency would carry out international safety checks of ten percent of the world's reactor units over a three-year period, under a draft action plan to prevent any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis. [More]

An intimate look at a group of elite Beijing high-school students reveals how China's schooling system is one of the resurgent nation's greatest strengths--and biggest weaknesses. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {border-bottom:2px;} During recess, students at the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University--like their counterparts across the nation--gather in the courtyard to do calisthenics.

A new study suggests that a child with an autistic older sibling will develop the disorder.

Highly technical scientific debates are usually hashed out behind closed doors--in labs, in subscription-based journals, in the hallways at conferences attended only by a few specialized researchers. But in May the rest of us saw three real academic arguments playing out in public, largely via Twitter, blogs and wikis

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Data from studies as far back as 1966 show women smokers 25 percent more likely than male smokers to develop heart disease