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I admit I can't discern star hires from average Joes. Instead, here's four ways I help my people thrive.

Gene therapy can only be effective if delivered by a stable complex molecule.

Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and Facebook president, says early-stage investors will fund almost anything these days. That's not good. The normally party-happy but press-shy tech entrepreneur Sean Parker was a bit of a buzzkill on the subject of Silicon Valley Tuesday

In the first university-based planetary science experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), researchers have gradually compressed a diamond sample to a record pressure of 50 megabars (50 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure). By replicating the conditions believed to exist in the cores of several recently discovered "super-Earths" -- extra-solar planets three to 20 times more massive than Earth -- the experiments could provide clues to the formation and structure of these and other giant planets, as well as the exotic behavior of materials at ultrahigh densities.

Even veteran disaster investigators were stunned by the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 .

Peering far across space and time, astronomers have located a luminous beacon aglow when the universe was still in its infancy. That beacon, a bright astrophysical object known as a quasar, shines with the luminosity of 63 trillion suns as gas falling into a supermassive black holes compresses, heats up and radiates brightly. It is farther from Earth than any other known quasar--so distant that its light, emitted 13 billion years ago, is only now reaching Earth

As spring begins to give way to summer, this year's weather conditions so far have been responsible for everything from an above-average allergy symptoms to blazing wildfires. But how is the current weather affecting your health? Allergies [More]

It's not just what we put into the air of cities that makes the air hard to breathe, it's the cities themselves.

You know those solar backpacks they sell?

Layering on the outerwear may keep you warm and dry in changing weather conditions while navigating the greens, but it’s not always great for the golf swing. In its ongoing effort to create functional attire for the golfer, FootJoy, the 154-year-old Fairhaven, Mass.-based golf shoe maker, introduced a collection of ...

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IBM Yorktown Heights, New York | Photograph by Reed Young David Ferrucci Principal Investigator - Watson Project, IBM Yorktown Heights, New York The principal investigator for IBM's DeepQA/Watson project, Ferrucci, 49, led the creation of the Jeopardy-playing robot, Watson.