6 Immigrant Stories That Will Make You Believe In The American Dream Again By: Monte Burke Thomas Peterffy was born in the basement of a Budapest hospital on Sept. 30, 1944. His mother had been moved there because of a Soviet air raid. After the Soviets liberated Hungary from Nazi occupation, [..]
Google Daydream vs. Samsung Gear VR: Which VR ticket out of reality should you choose? By Scott Stein Wanna get away? If you’re looking for a ticket out of this universe, at least temporarily, VR can deliver that on your phone. Or, even give you ways to reach out and communicate [..]
MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs By: Rob Matheson | MIT News Office MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced the creation of The Engine, a new kind of enterprise designed to support startup companies working on scientific and technological innovation with the potential for transformative societal impact. President Reif made [..]
An Entrepreneur’s Biggest Fears (And How To Conquer Them) By: Samantha Harrington With Halloween approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about fear. When I was a little, costumed kid I was afraid of ghouls and masks and the way the cold fall breeze rustled through the trees. Now I’m afraid of [..]
NIH to double funding for chronic fatigue syndrome, but patient distrust remains By Meredith Wadman The most anticipated speaker late last month at an international conference devoted to the mysterious malady commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was not a scientist with a hot new finding—although there was excitement [..]
Solar cells get boost with integration of water-splitting catalyst onto semiconductor Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. Led by researchers [..]
Fuel from sewage is the future — and it’s closer than you think It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The [..]
7 Lessons On Startup Funding From a Research Scientist By Dharmesh Shah My wife isn’t in business, but she is wise in the way of funding. Just as I have experience on both sides of the funding table (as an entrepreneur and as an angel), so does she. As a [..]
The 5 Motivations That Drive People to Choose Entrepreneurship By: Larry Alton Entrepreneurs take major financial risks, work long hours and practically torture themselves trying to stay afloat and build a business from the ground up. If you think about it, it’s a downright harrowing ordeal. Why would anybody want to [..]
5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Stay Motivated Every Day By Drew Hendricks Entrepreneurs need motivation by the bucketful, but some days it’s easier to stir up than others. It’s fantastic to have big, long-term goals, but don’t underestimate the power of little, daily ones. These easier to attain goals keep you going even [..]
Lightbulb made of modified E. coli fuses biology and electronics By Alex Pearlman It could soon be possible to make a light source out of bacteria. So says a group of students from Newcastle University in the UK who are attempting to combine electronic engineering and synthetic biology to create “electro-biological” [..]
Robot surgeon can slice eyes finely enough to remove cataracts By Sally Adee See what it can do. A new surgical robot can make the micro-scale movements needed for a particularly delicate procedure: cataract surgery. Axsis, a system developed by Cambridge Consultants, is a small, teleoperated robot with two arms [..]
The perfect cybercrime: selling fake followers to fake people By Sally Adee Hackers are recruiting the internet of things into a botnet. But this time they’re not trying to take down the internet. They’re just using them to make fake social media accounts – which they can then sell to [..]
How to start a data science business? By Aditya Joshi, Data Scientist Never start an ambitious project alone. It is important to know that how customers are obtained, how ruthless marketing is done, how you lure experts to hire. You need someone for managing such issues – while you continue working [..]
Starting from scratch: How do you build a world-class research lab? By: JOHN TIMMER What does it cost to build a research center from scratch these days? Gerry Rubin, who runs the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Virginia, estimated that his organization will spend a few billion dollars before it’s [..]
From idea to start-up – founding a company in the field of life sciences BY ANKE WILDE Founding a company in the field of life sciences is associated with high initial investments for good equipment and capable minds are required. Scientists who dream of founding a company will find the [..]
A Radical Idea for Pure Science: The Scientist-Entrepreneur David J. Teece Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business, Haas School of Business As much as we celebrate new technology and treat successful entrepreneurs like rock stars, there is still a tension at many universities between the mission of fundamental research [..]
Scientific Entrepreneurship Is an Option By Sonya Clemmons Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then [..]
The Entrepreneurial Bug By Alan Kotok Whereas some budding entrepreneurs start a company so that they can be their own boss or get rich quick, scientists usually have a different motivation: to transform their research findings into products or services that help people. This is what motivated three academic researchers [..]
Mice made easy By Jon Cohen The genome-editing tool CRISPR upends the vital business of creating mutant mice The CRISPR revolution that has made genome editing simpler, cheaper, and faster has come to the laboratory mouse, a leading animal model used to study everything from human disease to the function [..]
These images were created on the paper of the future!! By Katherine Kornei Digital media may be prevalent in today’s society, but sometimes an electronic screen just won’t do. The average office employee still prints thousands of pages of paper each year, and large posters and banners remain the norm [..]
Are U.S. schools teaching hands-off science? By Jeffrey Mervis U.S. high school students who regularly handle rocks or minerals in science class did much worse on a recent national science test than those who never engage in such hands-on activities. Students who never mixed chemicals or peered through microscopes in [..]
Why painkillers sometimes make the pain worse By Kelly Servick Mark Hutchinson could read the anguish on the participants’ faces in seconds. As a graduate student at the University of Adelaide in Australia in the late 1990s, he helped with studies in which people taking methadone to treat opioid addiction [..]
Global Conference 2017 Startup Showcase! STARTUP GRIND SOCAL Join 1,000 entrepreneurs and investors for a whole day of stories and strategies from 50 speakers building empires in technology, media, film, and entertainment. Southern California will be host to conversations on technology’s influence in the region and on investing and building [..]
MobileSparks 2016 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 9:00AM – 6:00PM At Indian Habitat Centre , South Delhi Rs 7499 This year marks the fifth edition of MobileSparks, where mobile-focused entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and corporates from all over India will once again come together to explore opportunities, collaborate, network, and discover everything that’s [..]
TiE Global Summit 2016 The TiE Global Summit is to be held on December 16-17 at Taj Palace, New Delhi. This Summit, in partnership with the leading agencies of the Government of India, 20+ TiE chapters from India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and Dubai, and global venture capital funds will [..]
BioAsia 2017 International Conference Accelerate your pathway to partnerships in Asia The BIO Asia International Conference, co-hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), BioCentury and the Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA), brings together the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry to explore licensing and research collaborations in the current Asia-Pacific business and [..]
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