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Researchers in Massachusetts have developed a prosthetic ankle that works more like the real thing than ever before. As Wyatt Andrews found out, many amputees see the limbs as so functional, they stop seeing themselves as impaired.

Israeli entrepreneurs create a "Cheers" for the Internet.

The pressure to discount can be overwhelming. These conversational tricks can help you push back

Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that.

Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that

Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that. Wallit is a new location-aware app which advertises itself with the tagline "walls for places." Essentially it lets its users place a digital Post-it note, or an invisible piece of graffiti if you like, on a virtual "wall" connected to a real place on Earth

Fear is the main obstacle to success in business--in business as well as elsewhere. Don't let it rule your life. Most people aren't as successful as they might be, simply because their fear is keeping them from taking action.

The company that made its name peddling drugstore paternity tests to uncertain parents now says that more than 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. has had reason to ask the question: Who’s your Daddy

Monday, November 14 Build a game, and they will play--and pay. Of the 62 million Americans who will log game time on a social network this year, some 10% will open their real-world wallets to buy virtual goods. That small percentage is nothing to scoff at, says Paul Verna, analyst at eMarketer.

Parents never want their tots to learn to fumble over words, but they need not worry about their own “uhs” and “ums”--

SAFEPED is a traffic simulator that takes into account how human beings make predictions about speed and distance, so planners can see exactly where people are going to run into the street.

MALTA-- Contagion , a film released earlier this month, depicts a gruesome outbreak of an exotic and deadly new virus. In the real world, a not-so foreign infection is circulating among animals every day of every year

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In the future, electric cars will work together with the smart grid to charge at off-peak hours and put energy back into the grid when its needed. For the first time, we're seeing this plan in action. Automakers and power companies have talked for years about the day when electric cars could work together with the smart grid by charging only during off-peak times and even giving energy in their batteries back to the grid.