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Rafflesia cantleyi , perhaps better known as the corpse flower for its pungent scent, steals everything from its host. Though each blossom can be in excess of three feet across, the massive buds cannot support themselves, and have no leaves, stalks or true roots

Forget time management. If you can't manage your energy, you'll never be able to manage anything else

Marketing attribution tracks user behavior before an online sale, allowing each channel that played a role in influencing the consumer to get credit for the purchase.

When cash is tight, our tendency is to try to do everything ourselves. Even when we have no idea what we're doing

Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe on how he found two mentors who taught him most of what he knows now about running a $130 million company. You’re starting a new business but you don’t know everything there is to know about it. (Really, you don’t)

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Many meat-eating animals have lost their ability to taste sugars over the course of evolution. Sea mammals, spotted hyenas and other carnivores have all shed a working copy of a gene that encodes a `taste receptor' that senses sugars, finds a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . An animal with a diet devoid of vegetables may have little need to detect sugars, says Gary Beauchamp, director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the lead author of the study.

It's that time of year again. What seems to be another chore to you is hugely important to your employees -- so don't blow it. Let me guess: You give your employees annual performance evaluations.

A Robb Report reader entered the rarefied world of grand prix drivers when he participated in Lotus Renault GP’s i-Race program at the Hungaroring circuit in Budapest, Hungary.

Entrepreneurs share how they launched their businesses in just 54 hours at Startup Weekend. We've heard it before: You have a great idea, but you just don't have the time to build it into a sustainable company. Startup Weekend proves that notion false

New study reveals that more people are starting businesses as a source of higher income than out of opportunity. Necessity, not opportunity, is driving entrepreneurship, says a new report. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a nonprofit research consortium, Monday released its latest National Entrepreneurial Assessment for the United States.

The patient had endured 20 years of pain: her calves had turned into two bricks,

It wasn't too long ago that traditional riojas and sherries were the only wines associated with Spain. And while the crazy popularity of Spanish cuisine has definitely bolstered appreciation for the country's wines in America, Katrin Naelapaa, executive director of Wines From Spain, makes it her business to ensure Spanish grapes get just as much love as their Italian and French counterparts. Naelapaa, who's been with the company since 1992, tells us how she helped build the once-fledgling industry into a $2 billion export business

GM has autonomous, electric pods that can be summoned by a smartphone and will whisk you, hands-free, to wherever you want to go. They're almost ready, now we just need to wait for GPS to catch up

Whoops. Diet soda might have no calories, but that doesn't keep it from growing your waistline. A new study finds that diet drinkers might be even worse off than regular soda drinkers.

We must think about biotechnology differently, says Reshma Shetty , cofounder of Boston-based startup Ginkgo BioWorks. And we must evolve how we view the science's purpose and participants. During a recent talk at Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business event, Shetty, No.