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It was to be the ultimate urban paradise. Hundreds of pages of plans, maps and charts detailed the construction of a state-of-the-art eco-city called Dongtan on China’s Chongming Island, at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers studying the quantum mechanical particles has discovered some unusual properties that could aid the construction of quantum computers.

Government work already makes up the bulk of Theresa Daytner's construction business. Now she's pursuing new federal contracts targeting female entrepreneurs. When Theresa Daytner founded Daytner Construction with her husband in 2003 as a commercial construction consulting outfit, she was not planning to pursue government work

A decade in the making, the Small Business Administration finally put in place rules for its women-owned small business federal contract program. Here's how you can work it

A Chicago agency is finding that the best way to tackle a conundrum, no matter how big, is to put the best and brightest together to think it through.

The USA is investing over 7.5 million dollars in the construction of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald. In the three-year project, starting in 2011, scientists from the fusion institutes at Princeton, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos are contributing auxiliary magnetic coils, measuring instruments and planning of special sections of the wall cladding for equipping the German fusion device – one of a total of nine projects in the Innovative Approaches to Fusion programme of the USA Department of Energy who will accordingly become a partner in the Wendelstein 7-X research programme.

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Navman Wireless’s Vice President, Renaat Ver Eecke . What Renaat said about how he led his company to success sounded very similar to Adrian Slywotzky’s hassle map . Below, Renaat describes how market research led to big success for Navman Wireless.

Before settling on a name, consider these five traits that all great company names share. While a clever and appropriate name can impress your fan base, choosing an unoriginal, dull name communicates a lack of enthusiasm towards your new business venture.

Turns out that building bike lanes isn't just a benefit for bikers. Building those bike lanes provides a big boost to the economy.

E-books realize their unbound potential faster than expected as pixels push past paper in Amazon sales. Oh, and, hey, look! Kindles for sale! Since April the first, for every 100 print-and-paper books Amazon has sold, it's also sold 105 e-books, according to a fresh Amazon announcement . Kindle e-readers arrived, along with a small but fast-growing digital bookstore, in November 2007--by July 2010, Amazon notes, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and then six months later beat the paperback books sales rate

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By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine The International Space Station (ISS) is just one space-shuttle flight away from completion, but the construction boom in low-Earth orbit looks set to continue for at least another decade.

What a happy place the U.S.

Syracuse University Taught by: Michael Haynie Michael Haynie wouldn't dream of reality-checking his students with the possibility of failure. He teaches disabled veterans, whose confidence was shattered along with their bodies.

A new coating for concrete structures could result in seriously tough structures that better resist damage and thus saves money in reconstruction and repair. Better yet, the coating relies on waste ash from burning coal in power stations.