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Rapid cooling of ordinary water or compression of ordinary ice: either of these can transform normal H2O into an exotic substance that resembles glass in its transparency, brittleness, hardness, and luster. Unlike everyday ice, which has a highly organized crystalline structure, this glass-like material's molecules are arranged in a random, disorganized way. Scientists have studied glassy water for decades, but the exact temperature at which water acquires glass-like properties has been the subject of heated debate for years, due to the difficulty of manipulating pure glassy water in laboratories.

NASA’s plans for human spaceflight, the subject of much hand-wringing since the curtains closed on the agency’s space shuttle program in July, took a big step this week when the agency announced plans for a powerful new rocket to take astronauts into deep space. [More]

Evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin has made his career studying the evolution of cooperation, so it makes perfect sense that the subject of his latest book would be an anarchist. [More]

Craftsman is sending an un-handy man into the wild. His survival story depends on tools both physical and digital. It’s a poor workman who appears in a new reality-based campaign for Craftsman.

The short answer: When you're prepared to accept it's a risk. Should you —can you?—fire employees for complaining about work-related issues online

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's David Dean.

The Fast Company web team is searching for a design intern. Do you have a strong foundation in HTML and working knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and FTP software? Can you multitask and juggle multiple projects under tight deadlines?

It’s the subject no one wants to discuss: sexually transmitted diseases. And even fewer want to have an in-depth conversation with their doctor or nurse about them.

Fitting fossils together to assemble massive dinosaur skeletons is certainly no small feat.

Twitter's director of media partnerships, Chloe Sladden, discusses expert hashtag tips for TV shows At the 2011 NAB Show this week,

When we launched Scientific American Mind as a new publication in 2004, it seemed like a great opportunity to give readers more stories about popular areas of mind and brain research--which, fortuitously, were also booming because of imaging and other advances. What I didn’t realize at the time, but probably should have, is how often the findings in our pages would shake loose what I thought I knew about how our gray matter works

How do you get people to speak more candidly than they might care to? In most cases, some amateur psychology does the trick, says Greg Hartley, a former U.S. Army interrogator and co-author of The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read.

Fast Company is looking for a software developer with an eye for UI/UX. This is a full-time job in our downtown New York City office. You'd work closely with designers, editors and engineers to build special edit packages, redesign pages, and launch new sites in the Fast Co.

Our web team is in search of a photo intern. This is a support role, working with the editors and news team to find, crop, and upload images to the site. The ideal candidate has experience working with illustrators, editing infographics, and can whip up a photo-mosaic in minutes.