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Tips to fuel creativity and invention--geared to your brain type. One afternoon in Oregon, apparently in 2006, artist Eric Singer contemplated a piece of orange Madrone wood from his neighbor's yard and had an "Aha!" moment. Why not combine wood and sunglasses
Read More »India’s $35 Aakash Tablet Comes Apart
Months after India's healthily anticipated $35 tablet was first unveiled, its owners are embroiled in a spat that is raising questions about its future.
Read More »India’s $35 Aakash Tablet Comes Apart
Months after India's healthily anticipated $35 tablet was first unveiled, its owners are embroiled in a spat that is raising questions about its future.
Read More »Polarization imaging: Seeing through the fog of war
Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the development of a new circular polarization filter by a collaborative team of scientists at the Colorado School of Mines and ITN Energy Systems has the potential to aid in early cancer detection, enhance vision through dust and clouds and to even improve a moviegoer's 3D experience.
Read More »Fear-Resistance: How Worried Should We Be about "Totally Drug-Resistant" Tuberculosis?
A few weeks ago a clinic in Mumbai claimed to have identified a dozen patients with a strain of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to all known treatments.
Read More »When to Admit Your Business Has Failed
The only thing worse than failing is sticking with a doomed business long after its fate is sealed. Here's how to know it's time to move on
Read More »Spotify Growing By 8,000 Subscribers Per Day, More Than Netflix, Sirius XM
Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, the Financial Times reports . That may sound like an impressive milestone for the popular on-demand music service, but how impressive is it really? Only about 64 days have elapsed since Spotify announced it reached 2.5 million subscribers in November
Read More »There’s An App For That App
In a booming app economy come apps made for helping you develop and test apps, just as apps get more important. Read on for hot app-on-app action! A firm called SOASTA, which dubs itself the "leader in cloud-based performance and functional testing" has some news today about a release of its CloudTest Platform--something that "for the first time" allows "functional test automation for continuous multi-touch, gesture-based mobile applications." Multitouch, gestures, apps, and the cloud all in one thing--it's a tech writer's heaven. Within the news, though, are a couple of important trends, connected to the development of smartphone and tablet technology
Read More »Warfare in 1912: A Look in Scientific American ‘s Archives [Slide Show]
These implements of warfare were developed to fill a perceived need or follow a specific doctrine. Some, such as the development of artillery, became a central facet during the Great War, the first “total war” that involved all of its citizens, industries and scientific ingenuity. [More]
Read More »The Creative Capital Advantage
For the entrepreneur, creative capital can be the catalyst to compel investors to sign on earlier in the start-up process. In 2006, after designing products and brands for other companies for 12 years under ASTRO Studios (my design firm), I teamed up with some outstanding business partners and spun-off a separate, product producing, direct-to-consumer brand of premium video gaming products called ASTRO Gaming
Read More »What’s Your Story? How Personal Narratives Impact Leadership
Everyone has a success story and a failure story.
Read More »NSTX project will produce world’s most powerful spherical torus
DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is getting an earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million, nearly three-year project as the next stage of its mission to chart an attractive course for the development of nuclear fusion as a clean, safe and abundant fuel for generating electricity.
Read More »One step closer to controlling nuclear fusion
Using a heating system, physicists have succeeded for the first time in preventing the development of instabilities in an efficient alternative way relevant to a future nuclear fusion reactor. Its an important step forward in the effort to build the future ITER reactor.
Read More »Brainiacs for Your Business
Our company is stocked with scientists, but we still can't solve every technical challenge ourselves. Enter the scientific advisory board
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