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It's an old technology for storing energy that's finally getting an update, and it's appearing everywhere from power plants to Formula One race cars, and will soon be hiding in your wheels, helping save you fuel. It's a not a new battery or super-hot liquid salt .

Without effective public health insurance exchanges, we will miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a solution to the problem of providing affordable health care coverage to all Americans. Here, the President and CEO of Extend Health on how it can be done. The government's Affordable Care Act aims to make health insurance more accessible and affordable to millions of individual Americans and employees of small businesses

In my last post, I cautioned about the dangers of learning about venture capital from watching a TV show .

Everyone has a price.

In the future, students will use social networks for more than planning keggers. If Groupon's backers have anything to say about it

In California, Latinos and African-Americans simply are not buying electric cars. It's time for some new marketing. The Prius is an emblem of the environmentally aware upper middle class, and at this point, electric vehicle purchases are mostly limited to early adopters who have the cash to experiment with an entirely new kind of vehicle.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Amazon Ups Ante Against Netflix . Amazon's doing a deal with NBC that is really aimed at one thing--building a better net video streaming service to rival Netflix

Google launched a new service on Thursday that can automatically speed up a website's page load times. That's a good thing, as separate studies from Google and Aberdeen Group have shown faster-loading sites boost customer satisfaction and ad revenue.

Thanks to a new social media-centered marketing campaign, Whole Foods will become the first national retail chain to celebrate Ramadan. Whole Foods has become the first prominent supermarket chain to run a Ramadan marketing campaign--and they're hoping Muslim customers will return the favor as they break fast. Even though Muslims traditionally forego meals during the day, lavish evening Ramadan meals could mean big bucks for the natural foods giant ..

Surgically repairing delicate soft tissues like those on the face after an injury or illness is a tricky business. Surgeons can fix bones, joints and other body parts--but lips and cheeks simply aren't as repairable. But they soon may be, if a new material developed by medical researchers becomes commercially available.

The Golden Arches recently announced that it's Happy Meals will be getting a little healthier. Their nutrition expert explains the rationale and how they fast food chain is hoping a little bit of healthy eating can be the start of a larger change.

You may not be shocked to learn that a lot of rumored Apple news is bubbling up around on the Web--here's our round-up of the most interesting bits.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Social Net Hack Hits Millions Of Koreans . Malicious hackers have hit SK Telecom's popular Cyworld social sharing site and the email portal Nate too, stealing data that may include user phone numbers and other more personal (if encrypted) data about millions of site users.

Neuroscientists have found how brainwaves can predict hit songs, but listen (below) to actual music made from neuro feedback, and you'll understand why experts think the pop charts will remain mindless for decades to come.

A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry? Borrowing code is standard operating procedure for those who work with software.