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A road that charges electric cars has long been a pipe dream for combating range anxiety, but these Japanese scientists are making it work in real life.

Scientists from more than 70 countries gathered at the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau this summer to discuss the world’s greatest health challenges and how to tackle them. The young researchers followed in these films are working on malaria, cancer, viruses and more. They are also learning how to be scientists; how to write grant applications, how to collaborate with other research groups, and how to find the right career path

Given the weather, the traffic, and the general attitude of the drivers, you can now measure how annoying it will be to get on the road at any given moment. Traffic is, apparently, a hot button issue. First IBM came out with its Commuter Pain Index , a look at the cities with the world's most painful commutes, and now Audi has released its Road Frustration Index , a real-time site that quantifies driver frustration in different parts of the U.S.

Over the past four years, John Matthews has been traveling the world to better understand freshwater and climate change issues. He found that poor planning is creating one of the biggest water-related threats.

An African bike company builds bikes for the poor, funded by selling you a super-light sweet bamboo ride. In Zambia, bicycles grow on trees, or rather bamboo, the primary building material for many Zambikes .

While the United States might be done with the Space Shuttle, the rest of the world is picking up the slack. Iranians are planning new space capsules, China is launching Martian satellites... and India wants to put a man on the moon

Some of us spend the weekends kicking back. Or gardening.

Organizing a group-bought gift for someone special can be a gigantic hassle. Enter Shareagift--which leverages social networking, online payments, and gift-suggestion algorithms--to sweeten the whole deal. "It's your friend's birthday and you know she really wants an iPad, but you only have enough for the classic annual scented candle," teases the press release for Shareagift , a new London startup that brings online payments and social networking to collborative gift-buying

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams.

Hey Chicagoans! On Tuesday, October 11, Fast Company will host a Creativity Summit at Chicago Ideas Week .

...as former Campbell's Soup Company CEO Doug Conant brought the brand back by encouraging every possibility. It was 2001 when Doug Conant became CEO of the Campbell Soup Company—he was just the eleventh man to hold the title in the company's 132-year history.

A newspaper publisher in Philadelphia is giving a $99 tablet to customers who sign up for two-year subscriptions to its papers, and GameStop is planning a dedicated gaming tablet based on older hardware running Android--meanwhile it's confidently and cheekily offering cash back for traded-in iPads, iPhones, and iPods. Tablets as marketing gimmicks: This, ladies and gents, is the side effect of the iPad's continuing success in dominating the new portable computing genre.

One of the world's oldest publishing companies brought in a ringer to revolutionize the way the company does business.

Can you build a long-term business on other people's platforms? Illustration by Brian Staufferr The oxpecker is an African bird that ekes out a living from the ticks that live on the backs of rhinoceroses. I imagine even it would be embarrassed by Zynga 's dependency on Facebook.

In the far northern reaches of Atlantic Canada, energy companies seek to harness untapped river sites with a hydroelectric project that could replace fossil fuel plants and export power into New England. Utility company Nalcor Energy aims to build two hydroelectric sites along the Lower Churchill River in Labrador, downstream from an existing 5,428-megawatt station -- one of the largest in the world.