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courtesy of iStockphoto/MrPants Instead of cutting into a dead body to determine the cause of death, some coroners are already calling in a radiologist instead .

Thursday, November 24 More than 3 million spectators will line city streets for the parade. | Illustration By Jing Wei Balloons may be just a bunch of hot air, but it takes more than that to keep them afloat when they're giant size

Social-media advertising start-up Adaptly is less than two years old and is growing at lightning speed. Its founder thinks it's ripe time to add a social mission.

What can a Kleiner Perkins VC pitch, and Hamburger Helper from General Mills, tell you about how to make your ideas tangible and real? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Made to Stick (2007) by Fast Company columnists Dan and Chip Heath .

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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 .

You and I and every single other decent person on the planet who has heard about the Penn State abuse allegations are having the same revenge fantasy.

Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Anthony Noguera, editorial director of Virgin's tablet magazine, Project

The Japanese government is searching for new ways to clean up the mess created by the reactor meltdowns earlier this year at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant . As lawmakers and officials study new energy policy options , which they plan to present by next spring, a company called Cyberdyne, Inc. is offering to help with the more immediate concern of removing radioactive debris in and around the reactors with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.

Everyone has ideas; it's how you execute them that will get you noticed. Adopting these five principles will help

By combining three layers of detection into one new device, a team of researchers from Japan has proposed a new way to monitor radiation levels at power plant accident sites. The device would be more economical that using different devices to measure different types of radiation, and could limit the exposure times of clean-up workers by taking three measurements simultaneously. Radioactive decay produces three flavors of emissions: alpha, beta, and gamma.

A new report warns that the exploding usage of radio waves by broadband-devouring smartphones and video threatens to deplete a finite wireless spectrum . “If you look at traffic patterns over the past five years, we went from things like illegal music downloads, to legal music downloads, to video,” said technology adviser and report author Michael Kleeman at University of California San Diego

A prep school's new environmental center turns energy use into a living game. Illustration by Radio After spending their childhood playing online games, students at Choate Rosemary Hall will soon be able to live inside one

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In any kind of nuclear reactor, there is a small amount of the radioactive isotope strontium-90 that is formed as part of the regular fission process.