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It's a low-cost commodity, but make no mistake--there's money to be made in water. Water entrepreneurs are problem solvers who look at global issues like water scarcity and failing infrastructure and see opportunity.

It’s easy to to be impressed when you walk the halls of museums by the quality and quantity of specimens on display, but it is only a fraction of what institutions like the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and other comparable institutions have in their collections. This year, the Academy celebrates its 200th anniversary and to mark the occasion, has created a year-long exhibit titled The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery

This is the only way to win at networking: Always offer to help. Never expect anything in return. I call it Golden Rule of Networking, and it should permeate all your networking efforts

Young entrepreneurs often pursue funding first, product second. That's a dangerous path--and it won't do your company much good.

How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation. We now have the possibility to be connected continually: text messages, emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn… all of which can be accessed from our smartphones, our iPads, our computers

Your genetic tolerance for risk, coupled with new productivity gains through smart technology, can help your company revolutionize its industry. Mankind's most innovative , large-scale achievements: building the Pyramids of Egypt and the Panama Canal—even putting a man on the moon—were each accomplished with roughly the same number of people: 100,000. Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie Mellon professor who researched these epic projects, makes the observation that 100,000 may well be the practical limit on the number people it was possible to organize, using pre-Internet technology.

A study says commenters with pseudonyms leave the most high-quality comments. Quick, guess who leaves higher quality comments: those with pseudonyms, anonymous commenters, or those with real names? It's those with the aliases, according to a study from commenting platform Disqus

Pizza chain parlays transparency initiative and recipe makeover into a new gourmet line.

Charter the quality and comfortable INEVITABLE this Thanksgiving holiday, and enjoy 8 nights for the price of 7.

In the not-too-distant future broadband speeds will be measured in gigabits per second rather than megabits per second, the former being 1,000 times faster than the latter. Such blazing fast data transmission will vastly improve the quality of streaming high-definition video, playing online video games, participating in video conferences and using voice over IP, all of which struggle with latency at today's average data transfer rates, which range from less than one megabit per second (Mbps) to 10 Mbps (pdf) . The sticking point over gigabit-per-second broadband: who will pay for it?

The five semi-finalists of the Data Design Diabetes Challenge have made apps to help manage and curtail the United States's growing epidemic. A staggering one in four Americans suffer from diabetes, making it one of the biggest health epidemics in the U.S

A new source of very cold electrons will improve the quality and speed of nanoimaging for drug and materials development to a trillionth of a second.

The college-is-a-bubble meme just keeps growing . Student-loan debt surpassed credit-card debt for the first time in history last year

The Erica Hill Experiment looks at improving the quality of Erica's sleep through improved fitness and diet while maintaining her busy lifestyle.

New year, more love? Psychotherapist Robi Ludwig offers advice on improving the quality of the relationships you have with the most important people in your life. (TODAY show)