Marketers are eager to get on Facebook's latest product, which went live to the masses Thursday. For some brands, however, that's a terrible idea.

Once you're done being scared of the goblins and ghouls, there are some larger issues to be scared about. But unlike the undead, these problems can be defeated with a little ingenuity.

We put cars under rigorous tests to determine if and how they will break. Can the same techniques help show the weakest parts of an oil rig?

If oil rig operators could see real-time data about how each part of their operation was performing, they might have a better chance of stopping explosions.

The latest X Challenge asks for a device that can remove 2,500 gallons of oil from water in a minute.

Without a clear understanding of what has changed since the disaster, we will be blindsided when a similar accident happens in the future.

The Protei project is creating open-source, autonomous sailboats to handle the types of aquatic environmental disasters that humans either can't or won't deal with: oil spills, nuclear meltdowns, and floating garbage islands among them.

There's no way to get around the Deepwater incident in the oil company's first corporate social responsibility report since the disaster--but that hasn't stopped BP from trying.

Regardless of how lousy they make the organization look, the Coast Guard's failures have much to teach us about how to better prepare for oil disasters.