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Are you on the path to domination? Here are the key business traits you should routinely measure and assess to find out.
Read More »Hot Industry: Water Conservation
As demand for clean water rises, and the supply of clean water decreases, the time for innovation in the water sector is now. Why It's Hot Every statistic about water scarcity is more staggering than the next: One out of eight people in the world doesn't have access to clean water, and one out of every five deaths in children under the age of 5 is from water-related disease.
Read More »New quantum information record set
Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut f
Read More »Research helps quantum computers move closer
The quantum computer is a futuristic machine that could operate at speeds even more mind-boggling than the world's fastest super-computers.
Read More »Breaking the limits of classical physics
(Phys.org) -- With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense the world is different than most people believe. The experiment illustrates that light does not behave according to the principles of classical physics, but that light has quantum mechanical properties.
Read More »The World Is Living Beyond Its Resources
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Biodiversity has decreased by an average of 28 percent globally since 1970 and the world would have to be 50 percent bigger to have enough land and forests to provide for current levels of consumption and carbon emissions, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday. Unless the world addresses the problem, by 2030 even two planet Earths would not be enough to sustain human activity, WWF said, launching its "Living Planet Report 2012", a biennial audit of the world's environment and biodiversity - the number of plant and animal species. Yet governments are not on track to reach an agreement at next month's sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro, WWF International's director general Jim Leape said
Read More »Cadet Nursing Corps, World War II
To commemorate National Nurses Week, Ancestry.com launched an archive to spotlight the Cadet Nursing Corps that served during World War II
Read More »Asian Demand Forecasts Boom for Coal
China will widen its gap with the United States as the world's largest coal-producing country by the end of the decade, riding continued strong demand from its electric power and steel-making sectors, according to a new analysis from New York-based GBI Research. [More]
Read More »Predicting Summer Box Office Hits With Social Media And People, Algorithms Be Damned
Could Twitter have foreseen the tsunami that was the Avengers opening weekend? Fizziology uses social media to make predictions about box office success--and is doing as well or better as traditional industry predictions. With summer movie blockbuster season upon us, it’s time for a favorite seasonal pastime: box office revenue predictions.
Read More »Denver Zoo Embraces Dung Power
Vying to become the 'greenest' zoo in the world, the Denver Zoo has installed a new energy system run entirely on animal dung and garbage. The system uses a process called gasification to turn waste into energy
Read More »IWC Launches Flagship Store in NYC
Boxing and the life of Muhammad Ali were prominent notes as IWC launched its impressive New York flagship boutique April 26.
Read More »U.N. Struggles to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
As it attempts to lead the world toward a more sustainable future, the United Nations has set a policy to move "towards a zero carbon future." [More]
Read More »What College Students Can Teach Entrepreneurs
Five ways I was recently amazed by undergrads competing in a business plan competition at Texas Christian University. As I get older, I love to talk about how times have changed
Read More »Traces of Elusive Species Sought in Bloodsucking Leech DNA
By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Bloodsucking leeches are offering the best hope of finding one of the world's rarest animals. [More]
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