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Remember the last time you visited a new office building, airport, or university campus and were lost the moment you stepped away from the main doors? That's a problem that buildings like large hospitals try to fix with color-coded lines painted on the floor, complex signage systems, and other tweaks--usually very low-tech

When real brains operate in the real world, it’s a two-way street.

(PhysOrg.com) -- By measuring the motion of a vibrating, porous membrane separating water and air, researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory, the University of Maryland, and Boston University have revealed a new regime of fluid behavior near solid surfaces that has not been previously observed.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Spotify To Enable Third Party App Access . Spotify boss Daniel Ek has just revealed his music streaming website will enable third party HTML5 apps to integrate right into the Spotify platform

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Blake Simmons, the VP for deconstruction at the Department of Energy's Joint Bioenergy Institute about competing with the fossil fuel industries, balancing needs for food and fuel, and becoming the Radio Shack of bioenergy.

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Nearly one metric ton of hardware will land on Mars in about nine months' time, uncurl its limbs, and start rolling around in the name of science. Designing something like Curiosity isn't easy. Around August 6, 2012, a spacecraft will reach Mars' surface after a nine-month journey from Earth

[youtube 9psNh-dJTDU] Kinect House Maids Meet SmartPal VII , a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion-tracking interface powered through a Microsoft Kinect system

The video search technology, which cost Microsoft a reported $70 million, will be integrated into XBox.

Someday, 3D printers may become as common as inkjet printers. Until then, there are affordable and easy ways to try them out.

Rainfalls are suspected to trigger the spread of a multitude of foliar (leaf) diseases, which could be devastating for agriculture and forestry. Instead of focusing on the large-scale, ecological impact of this problem, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the University of Liege in Belgium are studying the phenomenon from a novel perspective: that of a single rain droplet.

The soft drink giant teams up with a top production studio to create an immersive experience so vivid you can practically taste it. Cascada means waterfall. But there's not a drop of H2O falling on visitors to the Cascada exhibit in Quito, Ecuador.

An image of an inventor, captured with his own invention: Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (1844) [More]

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue, we speak with Marianne Wu, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures. "A lot of people assume that green biofuels mean higher prices or worse performance," Wu says.

Neuroscience is proving what sales pros have long suspected: Customers decide with their emotions, not their brains. Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system. It's a big deal in the academic world—and it could end up being a big deal in the business world, too