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A shift in Gen Y customers' expectations mean businesses need to do more than just make money. Or does it

Dear EarthTalk : I heard that the less meat one eats, the better it is for the environment. How so? [More]

Starting and running a company in an emerging market means you need to forget some of the basic things you've learned about entrepreneurship.

The idea isn't new, but what you get for the money just keeps getting better. In the very early days of your company , it might make sense to call your garage (or basement or kitchen table) headquarters

The fundamental resource that drives a quantum computer is entanglement—the connection between two distant particles which Einstein famously called 'spooky action at a distance'.

Can't compete with Wall Street salaries? Use these creative strategies for attracting the best Gen-Y talent. While building your business , you are probably overflowing with ideas and enthusiasm.

Chief Executive Officer doesn't reflect the CEO's most important responsibility. Here's a title that does. I propose dropping the "Executive" part of the CEO title

The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results.

When we look back at 2011, many will remember it as the year of the Occupy Movement, as the representation for the 99% found their voice, aiming to bring about change by influencing the controls of economic wealth and political power. Meanwhile, earlier in the year, Professor Michael E

Lichen loves to grow on tall, rocky mountains. But it doesn't know the difference between that and a skyscraper. Covering our buildings in it would keep them cool for free, if one artist's experiments work out.

Scientific papers tend to be loaded with statistics and jargon, so it is always a delightful surprise to stumble on a nugget of poetry in an otherwise technical report. So it was with a 2005 paper in the journal Development and Psychopathology , drily entitled “Biological Sensitivity to Context,” which looked at kids’ susceptibility to their family environment. The authors of the research paper, human development specialists Bruce J.

Don't be like your teenager.

Economists are trying to quantify both the spread of the 15-year-old biomimicry industry and its economic effects, and the results are eye-opening. Introduced in 2010, the Da Vinci Index is an attempt to quantify the impact of biomimicry in the U.S. Compiled by Lynn Reaser , chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University's Fermanian Business & Economic Institute in San Diego, the Da Vinci Index measures the use of terms unique to biomimimetic thinking in scientific publications, patents, and grants ( PDF )

Storing information in long-lasting quantum states is a prerequisite for building quantum computers. Intrinsic properties of nuclei known as magnetic spins are good storage candidates because they interact weakly with their environment; however, controlling them is difficult

A prep school's new environmental center turns energy use into a living game. Illustration by Radio After spending their childhood playing online games, students at Choate Rosemary Hall will soon be able to live inside one