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As a biological feat, it was the equivalent of an 80-year-old woman giving birth: Because of a mutation, Coleen Murphy's worms were still fertile and laying eggs right up until the end of their lives. The worms' impressive performance adds weight to the evidence that the biological clock that rules reproduction is separate from the one that grants us the traditional threescore and 10. [More]

The retail music landscape may be walking dead, but the carefully curated soundtracks to the Twilight franchise are alive and well, thanks to music supervisor Alex Patsavas "marriage" of story and song, featured in the upcoming Breaking Dawn--Part 1. Darkness may have washed over the retail music landscape (RIP, Tower Records ; Fare thee well, Virgin Megastore ), but hordes of teenagers dressed in black and clutching hardcover books nonetheless descended upon Hot Topic stores in malls across America last weekend for a nationally synchronized CD listening party. On November 5th , Twi-hards, those obsessive, dedicated fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series and the blockbuster movies it spawned, gathered to listen to the soundtrack to Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1, just as they had in 2008 , 2009 , and 2010 .

Recently an article was published on www.mainstreet.com about the Ten Companies with the Toughest Interview Questions , questions that would make anyone nervous if they were put on the spot and asked these questions in a job interview. The idea is to see how people think on their feet, how they decipher a problem or issue, and how they go about processing a problem. It's not necessarily about if they got the answer "right" (many of the questions don't even have a right answer), but what was the candidate's thought process?

Funding science has always relied on public support. Traditionally, scientists at research institutions are awarded money from government agencies and sometimes private foundations.

In places around the world where the grid hasn't been extended, they're still figuring out ways to power their gadgets. We could learn a thing or two. Globally, there are 5.3 billion mobile phone subscribers--but according to Green Power For Mobile by The GSMA Development Fund, nearly 500 million people worldwide do not have a means of charging a mobile phone at home.

Known for its vast photo library, Getty wanted its office to showcase the work of its best photographers.

“You shouldn’t wait for change—you should pioneer it,” said Paul Block, CEO of Merisant, the company that makes the sugar substitute Equal, and his remark pretty well summed up the theme of last Thursday’s conference session, “Growth and Innovation: Leveraging the Momentum.” A standing-room-only audience attended the panel discussion, in which Block was joined by serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman, CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Digital Media Arts Academy, and Lisa Price, CEO of Carol’s Daughter, a cosmetics company she launched 18 years ago while working as an assistant writer on “The Cosby Show.” Perhaps the best illustration of Block’s precept came from Price. Four years ago, she said, she and her management team had detected early signs of a major change in the tastes and preferences of their customer base, principally African-American women

Instead of simply blocking HIV from replicating, a new drug in trial stages causes it to mutate. If it works, it could eventually fully eliminate HIV in people who have the disease, freeing them from a lifetime of drugs. HIV is big business

Unbound publishing , the Kickstarter for books,

But one expert says small business owners keep working "because they love what they are doing and don't see the point of retiring." Small business owners’ biggest fear? Not having the money to retire, says a new study.

VCs do not support an entrepreneur in a garage with a vision or an entrepreneur who just got his first product out the door. VCs focus on rapidly growing businesses that can be scaled in the very near future--so they can simply cash out. It's been a year since my article " Angel Investors More Powerful Than VCs "

Editor's note: The following is a response by climatologist Michael E. Mann to a Q&A article that appeared in the June 2011 issue of Scientific American , which became available to readers in May. Last month, Scientific American ran a disappointing interview by Michael Lemonick of controversial retired University of California, Berkeley, physics professor Richard Muller.

As a business owner you may be a great salesperson but a lousy sales manager. So remove yourself from the equation by hiring a self-directed salesperson.

The Financial Times follows Inc.'s Argentina story with its own take on the country, focusing on the difficulty businesses have raising money : With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools. “There is no culture of investment. People stick their money under the mattress, they don’t put it to work,” says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start-up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply chain store, and is now that company’s Argentina country manager

Kitty and Lala are Chinese photographers and bloggers introducing playful, modern angles into fuddy-duddy Chinese wedding photos. Now they're part of Intel 's global campaign to promo its new-gen Core 2 CPUs