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St. Olaf College senior Andrew Foxwell founded a marketing company with the help of a $3,000 Finstad Entrepreneurial Grant and has transformed it into a business that is on track to make $10,000.

The US government has caved in to pressure from conservation groups and listed the polar bear as a threatened species.

Our view of the cosmos is veiled by dust and the universe actually shines twice as bright as astronomers had thought, a discovery that will lead to a massive reevaluation of space images.

A bird is able to make drops of water defy gravity and flow into its mouth.

The US government has caved in to pressure from conservation groups and listed the polar bear as a threatened species.

I'm here at the DFJ East Venture Challenge and with 250K on the line, everyone is buzzing. Some of the greatest business leaders in New York City here from Morgan Stanley bankers to Fox Interactive executives to venture capitalists to

I'm back! People are starting to trickle back into the auditorium. I just sat next to Naveed Hasan, former software developer at Bloomberg and Shadowtv.com, who thinks that Ecovolve and Yan Engines are the current favorites. Ecovolve provides technology to

The problem of collisionless shocks is posed as the problem of understanding how in a completely collisionless streaming high-temperature plasma shocks can develop at all, forming discontinuous transition layers of thickness much less than any collisional mean free path length.

We explore the dynamics of a ``cluster wind'' flow in the regime in which the shocks resulting from the interaction of winds from nearby stars are radiative. We first show that for a cluster with T Tauri stars and/or Herbig

We discuss the applicability of the kinematic $\alpha$-effect formalism at high magnetic Reynolds numbers.

We examine nonlinear oscillations of slender tori in the vicinity of black holes and compact stars.

Archaeologists excavating an enigmatic burial mound in Sussex believe that grave robbers beat them to the prize of finding the remains of a Bronze Age chief.

Baby birds babble, just like human infants, a discovery that sheds new light on why younger people are more creative, writes Roger Highfield.

The world's first exhibition of 'extinct and impossible' smells is under way, from the metallic fallout of the first atomic bomb to the aroma of cloves and oranges from first aid kit of a medieval plague doctor. By Roger Highfield.

Future missions to the moon could be a case of one small step for woman, one giant leap for womankind.

As MPs prepare to debate a Bill updating the law on embryo research, Science Editor Roger Highfield examines the complex issues at stake.

The family tree of mankind has been redrawn by a new computer analysis that attempts to sum up what it means to be human.

Human memory could work more like Google one day, says Gary Marcus.

A space probe sent to search for alien life signs is preparing for a risky descent onto Mars that's "no trip to grandma's house" as a senior Nasa official put it.