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Whenever someone says "company growth", they usuallymean sales. Sell more widgets, add more salespeople, move into more markets, make more phone calls, buy more advertising. But what about other ways to grow

David Ronick started coaching Amanda Steinberg three years ago. Earlier this year she raised $850,000 from a group including Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures. When I met Amanda Steinberg through a mutual friend in July of 2008, DailyWorth was just an idea: A daily e-mail newsletter with advice on personal finance for women

Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind revels in discovering ideas that transform the status quo in physics. Forty years ago he co-founded string theory, which was initially derided but eventually became the leading candidate for a unified theory of nature. For years he disputed Stephen Hawking’s conjecture that black holes do not merely swallow objects but grind them up beyond recovery, in violation of quantum mechanics

Five years ago, Zack Lystedt suffered a concussion that almost killed him but recovered in time to walk at his own graduation paving the way for future concussion patients along the way. John Blackstone reports.

In today's why-the-bees-are-dying news: Giving hives checkups throughout the year yields a lot of things that kill bees, but do any of them cause colony collapse disorder? It's the billion-dollar question: why did colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon characterized by honeybees disappearing for no apparent reason, appear from nowhere in 2006

This month Scientific American launched 20 free at-home science activities with our inaugural Bring Science Home series. We hope you've enjoyed trying some of them and that you will continue to visit our Education page for more ways to do a little more science every day--at any age.

Ballengee: Rising star Rory McIlroy suffers an epic collapse at the Masters, but he gains respect and fans along the way.

A new "innovation center" opens in Mexico City. It's good business for local startups--and for IBM