Wading through the river of tweets in the wake of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs's death. Steve Jobs's death [became] the trending topic of all trending topics ( @deliacabe ). He was the most innovative entrepreneur of our generation ( @SteveCase )
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What's the most important lesson entrepreneurs should learn from Steve Jobs? Gary Hamel, a management expert, believes it's how to talk to your employees. Have you told your employees you love them recently
Read More »Video: Afghanistan midwives give a better chance at life
The Afghanistan province of Badakshan was once recorded to have the world's highest maternal mortality rate.
Read More »Check This Out: The New Coke 5!
From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
Read More »10 luxurious African safari camps
At these lavish safari camps, guests get up close and personal with the world’s most elusive African wildlife — without sacrificing comfort.
Read More »ARPA-e Attacks Rare Earths, Biofuels in Latest Funding
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced the winners of its latest round of grants yesterday in a telephone conference. The funds will advance research projects geared toward improving energy efficiency, developing alternative fuels, improving electrical infrastructure and reducing U.S. dependence on foreign resources.
Read More »Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)
A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics.
Read More »Recommended: Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids
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Read More »Argonne scientist energizes quest for lost Leonardo da Vinci painting
Perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paintings has never been reprinted in books of his art. Known as the "Battle of Anghiari," it was abandoned and then lostuntil a determined Italian engineer gave the art world hope that it still existed, and a physicist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory developed a technique that may reveal it to the world once again.
Read More »Waiting for the Higgs (preview)
Underneath a relict patch of illinois prairie, complete with a small herd of grazing buffalo, protons and antiprotons whiz along in opposite paths around a four-mile-long tunnel.
Read More »Tevatron Collider Set to Shut Down for Good on Friday
The Tevatron. Credit: Fermilab The storied Tevatron particle collider, the most powerful machine of its kind in the U.S.
Read More »Danger! Article Up Ahead!
What has become the underlying reason for why we do things in our lives?
Read More »JetBlue Airways Chairman Joel Peterson: Innovation Is Hiding In Plain Sight
Sometimes innovation looks like good old fashioned customer service served with a heaping helping of passion from a forward-thinking entrepreneur.
Read More »Scientists stunned, sceptical on faster-than-light particles
Physicists around the world expressed astonishment and scepticism in equal measure Friday after European scientists reported particles apparently travelling faster than light.
Read More »CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured
Scientists at the world's largest physics lab say they have clocked subatomic particles traveling faster than light, a feat that - if true - would break a fundamental pillar of science.
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