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What made the difference? Inc.com asks savvy entrepreneurs to reveal the one thing their business couldn't have lived without--and how much it cost. She was tired of New York City.

Nanotechnology makes the seemingly impossible true: Trapping the sun's heat for release later, whenever and wherever you need it. MIT's researchers have discovered a way to blend carbon nanotubes , current media darlings of the chemistry world, with an existing material used for storing heat energy

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Martin Kaymer has drawn little attention in the buildup to the British Open despite being ranked No. 3 in the world.

A new study shows using iron to fertilize marine plants fundamentally alters seafloor ecosystems. But that might be worth it to slow climate change. “Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you an ice age,”

Google's Internet-based science fair brought in awe-inspiring teenage scientific contributions from 91 countries around the world--with three girls taking home the gold in all age groups.

Hubble is amazing, but its replacement, the James Webb, is having problems. That makes a scientific telescope ride aboard a commercial space plane all the more compelling an idea.

Sepiolite is a lightweight porous mineral used in cat litter and other applications. The extraordinary properties of this clay make it a highly sought after mineral, despite its scarcity in the Earth's crust: only a few mines worldwide extract it, several of them clustered near Madrid in Spain, the world's biggest exporter of this material.

By order of the Shadow Proclamation (okay, Facebook), select episodes of Doctor Who will materialize online for fans around the world. Including one that's never been released before. The BBC, that venerable broadcaster adored by grandmas across the globe, is trying something new: Its Worldwide arm is putting select episodes of one of the BBC's content jewels, Doctor Who, online as a paid video-on-demand service on Facebook .

Davidson is a professor at Duke University, a dyslexic, and a geek: The combination has made her a savvy, realistic, and observant critic of today’s technoculture. | Photograph by Adam Golfer Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach ...

The scandal that helped shutter Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid and left at least nine News International journalists facing possible criminal charges has brought phone hacking into the spotlight as a means of subversively gathering information for news articles. As investigators study the scope of the problem, including the role phone hacking played in News of the World 's coverage of the disappearance and death of teen Milly Dowler in 2002, it's become clear that breaking into someone else's voicemail isn't very difficult

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B Lab--a nonprofit that certifies sustainable businesses--is riding a wave of interest in social responsibility for corporations. Now it has plans to expand even wider as states around the country begin to give tax breaks to its companies

For several years, public health officials have been concerned that gonorrhea, one of the most prevalent STDs in the world, might become resistant to the last widely available antibiotic used to treat it. Now, it has.

Given the ubiquity of automated teller machines (ATMs) in most Western countries, it may be difficult to envision places in the world where people have never set foot in a bank much touched an ATM. Efforts to change this are often stymied not only because locals are unfamiliar with the concept of financial services but also because they are semi-literate or illiterate, making the use of an ATM challenging.