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Is Planning Bad for Business?

A young entrepreneur presents a few disruptive strategies to help grow your business. Her message: Stop planning. Its useless

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The Science Behind Dreaming

For centuries people have pondered the meaning of dreams. Early civilizations thought of dreams as a medium between our earthly world and that of the gods.

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Steve Blank On The Broken Relationship Between Investors And VCs

Veteran entrepreneur of Silicon Valley shares his funding stories, what he's learned about the entrepreneur/investor relationship over the years, and the best way to pitch to a venture capitalist. Funding Stories When I was at E.piphany, my last startup, I was negotiating with a company called Infinity Capital at the time

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Strain on the Brain (preview)

In 2007 Nobel laureate James Watson eyed his genome for the very first time. Through more than 50 years of scientific and technological advancement, Watson saw the chemical structure he once helped to unravel now pieced into a personal genetic landscape that lay before him. There was one small stretch of DNA on chromosome 19, however, that he chose to leave under wraps

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Racing to Build the Next Spacecraft

Heres a look at the top four contenders for developing the next spacecraft, how much funding they have received through the program, and how close they are to sending a crewed flight into orbit. After the shuttle Atlantis makes its final flight this summer, NASA will shut down the program responsible for 135 manned space flights since 1981. Now, NASA is turning to commercial companies to develop space-flight capabilities through its Commercial Crew Development program, which has doled out $320 million in funds since 2009.

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"Virtual Cane" Lets Visually Impaired Navigate Via Sonar

A new prototype device allows the visually impaired to more easily walk the streets using sonar-like technology to create an impromptu spatial picture. Blind and visually impaired individuals may soon be walking easier with “virtual canes.” A new device developed by a team affiliated with Israel's Hebrew University allows users to detect all objects within 10 meters for safe navigation. The cane uses sonar-like technology, turning users into virtual batmen and batwomen

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After Spurning Android, HP May Offer Windows 8 Tablets

For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS.

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How do electrons become entangled?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton researcher and his international collaborators have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the development of quantum computers.

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