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Over the decades X-ray crystallography has been fundamental in the development of many scientific fields. The method has revealed the structure and function of many biological molecules, including vitamins, drugs, proteins and nucleic acids such as DNA.

When it comes to branding, the larger danger is spending too much, rather than spending too little. It's a myth that having lots of brands and plenty of branding is good for business. After a certain point, both brands and branding cease to be useful–and, in fact, can be positively toxic.

The best companies are those that can bounce back from failure. Here's what it takes to do it well.

Struggling against difficult odds in business? Consider this wisdom from an Inc

Use these questions to analyze your recent sales performance--both wins and losses--to get more wins in 2012. “Learn from your mistakes.” You’ve probably been hearing this all your life from well-meaning parents/teachers/bosses.

It's not just for marketing. Crowdsourcing is an efficient way to take advantage of cognitive diversity

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Start-up founders don't just wake up one day and decide to launch something entirely different. It's a gradual--and more grueling--process.

Students need work, and real on-the-job skills. That's just your luck. This start-up hopes to help you find the right matches for your task, and your price

Picture your business helping millions of people solve a problem.

The dumbest thing you can do is to assume all prospects are potential customers. Here's how to tell the difference.

Want to know which of your employees are doing a bang-up job, and which are falling down on it? Take a few calls from irate customers.

Rainfalls are suspected to trigger the spread of a multitude of foliar (leaf) diseases, which could be devastating for agriculture and forestry. Instead of focusing on the large-scale, ecological impact of this problem, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the University of Liege in Belgium are studying the phenomenon from a novel perspective: that of a single rain droplet.

If you're a pushover, you'll completely lose a customer's respect. Follow these six steps to diffusing customer anger without caving in. My recent column Top 5 Ways Big Customers Screw With Small Vendors points out that some buyers see sellers—that means you—as scapegoats

What do you do when a species is rapidly disappearing in the wild and two of its most likely in-captivity studs decide to cuddle with each other instead of with eligible bachelorettes? That’s the problem Toronto Zoo is encountering this week as two endangered male African penguins ( Spheniscus demersus ) recently brought to the zoo for breeding purposes seem more concerned with spending time with one another than with two eager females. [More]