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7 Hottest Retirement Start-Ups

From a bed-and-breakfast to a consulting practice: See which businesses people start most often after they quit the rat race. Some people are not looking forward to retirement—they are not ready to settle into a golf routine and move to Florida just yet.

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How to Win Google’s Backing

Want Googles money? A sweet spot for Google Ventures managing partner is where the cloud meets genome sequencing. Want Google’s money

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A Video Visualization Of Earth’s Fires From Space

Though the Texas fires dominated the news this summer, they were not America's largest. NASA's fire detection satellites are useful beyond just generating pretty but painful pictures.

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Dropping Bombs from Flying Machines

In this age of scientific armament, every new invention that bears at all upon the art of warfare is carefully weighed in. the balance of military usefulness.

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Monsanto Plans To Sell Sweet Corn In Your Local Supermarket

There is genetically modified produce in a lot of the processed food you eat, but this is the first time that Monsanto is taking fresh GM produce from the ground straight to your mouth. If it works out, there will be plenty more. Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, is known for developing engineered crops (i.e.

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Will Future Nuclear Power Reactors Be Safer? (preview)

Editor's note: This article appears in print with the title "In Search of the Black Swan." Half a world away from Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, deep in the pine forests of Georgia, hundreds of workers are prepping the ground for an American nuclear renaissance they still believe is on the way. Bulldozers rumble across sunken plateaus of fresh, hard-packed backfill that covers miles of recently buried piping and storm drains.

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