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Insects are the most mystifying flying creatures on earth. They can hover, easily move in any direction, and artfully but maddeningly dodge a fly swatter. And they have inspired a group of engineers to build the world's ...

What appears to be widespread support for an overhaul of the corporate tax system may be a veneer covering deep splits between businesses that get the breaks and those that don't.

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Di Florio to set up new unit to ID emerging vulnerabilities for investors and markets.

Any company is at risk when its founder dies. But Steve Jobs' death has taken much more than a founder. With Jobs gone, Apple has lost its mind.

What you see here is a real-life lilliputian, the tiny mythical characters from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." This is not a hoax. The tiny mummified skeleton has been baffling researchers since it was discovered...

Pornography cannot exist in the workplace if high levels of productivity are desired. It distracts workers from their jobs and has the potential to offend other employees if they happen to catch a glimpse.

Well, this doesn't look good. A shuttered California nuclear power plant's bid to reopen may have been dealt a blow -- in the minds of...

Learn to think like a billionaire, or at least tweet like one.

Dear Steve, I received settlement offers from my creditors. How do I ensure that they do not sell my account to another party for collections after receiving the settlement?

When I was fresh out of college, supervising a dozen or so telephone company technicians, I held a weekly meeting. Why? Someone told me to do it, so I did it.

Just one death by suicide to one-far-too-many, but the increasing rate at which Americans are killing themselves is deeply disturbing. Suicide now accounts for more deaths in the U.S. than car crashes, according to a new...

When you're driving unfamiliar streets or seeking a nearby spot to fill up your tank and your belly, it helps to have that patient, all-knowing GPS voice directing you to "exit to the right," or, if you've ventured off-c...

In government, corporate and nonprofit offices across the country are women who are smart, work hard and care about their profession but are regularly ignored because they are viewed as too mousy or too pouty or too inex...

Major retailers are meeting this week to discuss worker safety in Bangladesh after a building collapse last week killed at least 433 garment factory workers. And the death toll in the collapse will likely continue to ris...

One of the biggest frustrations of working on a start-up is encountering a recurring problem and failing to successfully develop and implement a sustainable solution to address it. Imagine, for example, that the deadline...

As I look at Wall Street headlines I better understand why so many owners and stakeholders of privately held companies aren't jumping into the IPO line and some publicly traded firms are jumping out.

WASHINGTON -- A House committee chairman renewed his criticism Thursday of the bonuses paid to senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department and called on...

In the grand scheme of personal finances, your take home pay is like an apple pie. Your bills are the hungry flock of kids banging their fists on the table to get their share. For renters in America, housing is usually t...

NEW YORK -- The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the...

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $30.24 billion to $2.563 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Shaun King founded HopeMob to crowdfund for people in need. Today, he launched Upfront to connect influencers with their audience, and raise money for good on the side.