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Let's face it: When you're small, every hire counts. Make sure you aren't making one of these common hiring mistakes. The smaller your company , the more hiring the right people matters

Let's face it: When you're small, every hire counts. Make sure you aren't making one of these common hiring mistakes

Let's face it: When you're small, every hire counts. Make sure you aren't making one of these common hiring mistakes

Let's face it: When you're small, every hire counts. Make sure you aren't making one of these common hiring mistakes. The smaller your company , the more hiring the right people matters.

Poaching of elephants and the illegal trade in their tusks and related ivory products were out of control in 2011, with more than 2,500 animals confirmed killed and thousands of kilograms of tusks seized by customs officials around the world. This was the worst year on record since the international ivory trade ban was established in 1989, according to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

Media darlings and mavens of masterful storytelling who took center stage with aplomb in 2011. Welcome to Part 2 of my annual list of who’s been naughty and who's been nice as a speaker or communicator. This week, the winners

Jeanne Gang designed the Nature Boardwalk at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo: "It's a hyper-urban site, and yet it provides a space for a natural habitat." Photo by Michael Lewis See more of the best photos of 2011

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine Two scientists from New Zealand will travel to Antarctica on December 28 in a quest to continue a 100-year-long record of Earth's magnetic field: a record begun by British explorer Robert Scott at the start of his ill-fated expedition to the geographic south pole (see "Turning the world upside down "). Record-keeping is necessary because the magnetic poles move about, thanks to the complex circulation of Earth's fluid outer core

In his book Predictably Irrational , Dan Ariely notes that from about 1978 to 1993, the average pay for a public company CEO climbed from 36 times the average worker’s pay to 131 times. In order to “shame” companies into holding back on lavish pay for CEOs, the Securities and Exchange Commission began requiring publicly held firms to disclose the pay of their top five executives in their financial reports. The result?

Researchers at Kyoto University have announced a breakthrough with broad implications for semiconductor-based devices. The findings, announced in the December 20 issue of the journal Nature Communications, may lead to the development of ultra-high-speed transistors and high-efficiency photovoltaic cells.

Researchers at Kyoto University have announced a breakthrough with broad implications for semiconductor-based devices. The findings, announced in the December 20 issue of the journal Nature Communications, may lead to the development of ultra-high-speed transistors and high-efficiency photovoltaic cells.

By Declan Butler of Nature magazine It is a nightmare scenario: a human pandemic caused by the accidental release of a man-made form of the lethal avian influenza virus H5N1. Yet the risk is all too real

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S.

By Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine The U.S. [More]

By Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine The U.S. [More]