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Feed Subscription10 Tips for Deciphering Diet and Nutrition Claims [Excerpt]
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the new book Coffee Is Good for You: From Vitamin C and Organic Foods to Low-Carb and Detox Diets, the Truth About Diet and Nutrition Claims (Perigee, 2012), by Robert J.
Read More »Can A Startup Store Change The Retail Business?
Rachel Shechtman just launched her new venture, A Startup Store , in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. The store, still in "beta," currently features a rotating selection of startups and their products in a physical retail space, including: Artspace, Birchbox, Baublebar, Joor, and Quirky. But A Startup Store will be ever-changing and ever-morphing
Read More »The Sharing Economy Tries On Prada
As the sharing economy expands, peer-to-peer exchange sites such as Refashioner have pushed the industry from power drills and waffle irons into communities trading in penthouses, Porsches, and Prada.
Read More »How to Act Like a Psychopath without Really Trying [Excerpt]
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt adapted from the book, People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation , by John Whitfield (Wiley, 2011). Copyright
Read More »Which Nations Conform Most?
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Volume 205, Number 6 of Scientific American in December 1961. [More]
Read More »The Drone Threat to Privacy
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on security and privacy during the age of drone warfare. Part one is available here . [More]
Read More »Video: Fish fraud?
Rebecca Jarvis sits with Consumer Reports Editor in Chief Kim Kleman about what the magazine says is the intentional mix-ups of different kinds of fish in fish markets and restaurants and how it can affect your health.
Read More »Netflix Will Stream To U.K. And Ireland In 2012, Google Launches "Person Finder" In Turkish, NASA Mulling Space Filling Stations
Breaking news from your editor at Fast Company, with updates all day. Netflix Will Stream To U.K.
Read More »30,000 Feet High And Rising To The Challenge: Staying Productive In The Air
How to engineer your non-first-class flight into a comfortable chance to get serious work done.
Read More »How an Interconnected Planet Is Fueling the Brewing Viral Storm
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a chapter in Nathan Wolfe's new book: The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (published October 11 by Times Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright
Read More »Why Is Pancreatic Cancer So Deadly?
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2008. We are reposting a version of it in light of the death of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs from complications from pancreatic cancer.
Read More »"You’re the Top…" [From the Archive]
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the July 1994 issue of Scientific American and describes the first tentative sighting of the top quark.
Read More »The Discovery of the Top Quark [From the Archive]
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the September 1997 issue of Scientific American (a PDF version of the original is available for purchase below). We have resurfaced this article to commemorate the end of the Tevatron
Read More »Good news for people with specific phobias: Cortisol may increase efficacy of exposure therapy.
Originally posted at Field of Science on April 21, 2011, where it was a Research Blogging Editor’s Selection. [More]
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