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Commentators are claiming that Gen Y-ers and Millennials are start-up naturals, and great salespeople.

Some of the start-ups that made the list are no-brainers. Others might have you scratching your head.

By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine Nano-sized flakes of graphene oxide can be spun into graphene fibres several metres long, researchers in China have shown. [More]

One of the pleasures of editing a magazine like Scientific American, with its 166-year history as the country’s longest continuously published magazine, is getting a “you are there” view of science as it was whenever I take a spin through our digital archives . The other day, while reading some 100-year-old prose, I was reminded of a famous incident.

I want to start by saying I love music. Sharing music with my friends and colleagues is even more fun.

As if bedbugs weren t gross enough already, entomologists have now found that they get ahead by mating with their own mothers, brothers, sisters and fathers.

It happens to all of us: we suddenly and inexplicably feel cheery or blue, even though our mood was quite different just moments before. Often the culprit is a subliminal cue, or, as psychologists call it, priming. But we do not have to be at the mercy of these unconscious cues.

When you think of old age – of people over the age of 65 years – what immediately comes to mind?

You need to get the word out about your new product or service. What if you paid someone -- or a lot of people -- to review it for you?

NASA's orbiting Kepler telescope has discovered its first planet in the habitable zone of another star. By "habitable," astronomers mean that a planet could harbor temperatures conducive to liquid water--and maybe life. [More]

DURBAN, South Africa--My share of the carbon dioxide my flight to Johannesburg emitted over 15 hours amounted to 1,391.3 kilograms, according to the helpful information provided by South African Airlines. Add a dollop of 53.8 kilograms of CO2 for the jet jaunt to Durban and you can see that the aviation industry--and the Durban climate talks --have an emissions problem.

Chimpanzees meld sounds and colours, associating light objects with high tones and dark objects with deeper tones. [More]

As a biological feat, it was the equivalent of an 80-year-old woman giving birth: Because of a mutation, Coleen Murphy's worms were still fertile and laying eggs right up until the end of their lives. The worms' impressive performance adds weight to the evidence that the biological clock that rules reproduction is separate from the one that grants us the traditional threescore and 10. [More]

[youtube pjIK5BOADVI] Apps are coming at us from all directions, and they're getting both more sophisticated and simpler--the app economy is booming. But as everyone and their dog makes something they deem fit to call an "app," the supply will arrive like a flood. Then what will we do as a consumer society--wallow, sink, or swim?