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A designer metamaterial has shown it can engineer emitted "blackbody" radiation with an efficiency beyond the natural limits imposed by the material's temperature, a team of researchers led by Boston College physicist Willie Padilla report in the current edition of Physical Review Letters.

Sites such as Ideeli, Lot18, Gilt Groupe, and Rue La La are offering carefully curated deals at reduced prices.

Now that the battle against the bulge in the U.S. has reached the grade school level, plenty of efforts have begun to fight childhood obesity and its dangers

Companies that tout their support for breast cancer research are often the same companies whose products may be causing breast cancer. But you won't hear them mention that when they slap pink ribbons on everything. Consumers, beware: You may already be watching out for greenwashing (unsubstantiated "green" claims) but you probably don't pay much attention to pinkwashing--when companies that use chemicals known to cause cancer position themselves as leaders in the fight against breast cancer.

Living with limited mobility can be tough - so Boston nonprofit helps by training capuchins to do more than just monkey around

FanGo makes a sports app that lets fans order food from the concession stand using their phones. Can it raise $435,000

Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husbands and her doctors advice that she slow down. She has since divorced and opened a fourth store. The best medicine Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husband's and her doctors' advice that she slow down.

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In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I have an idea for a business, but there is already a lot of competition.

Google will keep you from sprinting to the bus every morning by telling you when it's actually coming, not just when it's supposed to come. Veteran public transit users know that scheduled departure times rarely match up to actual departures.

As a psychologist, I have always found the concept of speed dating fascinating. In fact, some years ago, I decided to try it myself.

Meet the 2.0 car service: Uber is a start-up that lets you book a stylish ride from a smartphone app. Imagine your flight arrives four hours later than expected.

By sending out a tweet for action, businesses can connect with their customers in a fun way, while rewarding their most loyal and enthusiastic customers with lucrative prizes. When JetBlue social media strategist Morgan Johnston and his colleagues were called to a meeting to discuss how to increase awareness of the @JetBlueCheeps Twitter account, they opened up the discussion to their Twitter followers—asking their opinions on what should be done differently

How does Facebook Places stack up against Foursquare ? It's a question many have wondered since the world's largest social network jumped into the check-in game