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Continuing with the tradition from last three years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2011 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January 2011. [More]

Juntos Finanzas, a budget-by-text program started at Stanford with a group of janitorial workers, is part Mint.com, part Weight Watchers. Now it's making real changes in the lives of lower-income workers. Saving money is hard for most people

Post-revolution Egypt is in a state of flux overlooked by outsiders. New political parties are forming while various factions hustle for power.

What distinguishes a fling that ends in tears from long-term love? Past research suggests that the most successful couples share common interests, values and personality traits. Now new research published in Psychological Science proposes that the simplest words lovebirds use to speak to each other also make a difference--both in determining how attracted they are and how likely they are to stay together

More than two years ago Inc. covered the “ Unconference ” trend

Users pretty much ignore search ads, a new eye-tracking study says. So-called organic search results were viewed 100 percent of the time, and study participants—the study was conducted by user experience research firm User Centric —spent an average of 14.7 and 10.7 seconds looking at them on Google and Bing, respectively. (For tips on search engine optimization, click here .) But just over one-quarter of participants (28 percent) looked at right-side ads on Google, and just 21 percent did on Microsoft's Bing