Five innovative Indigenous startups have been selected to attend a "mini" four-week business-accelerator program at The Capital, the recently opened dedicated venue in Brisbane's CBD for digital technology startups and entrepreneurs.

The program is offered by Barayamal, a new not-for-profit business, which will run Australia's first Indigenous accelerator program from mid-2017.

Scientific efforts to find cures for cancer will be severely hampered if the scientific community does not change the ways in which patient data is collected, shared, and analyzed. The development of targeted therapies and immunotherapies — the two biggest hopes for cancer cures — depend on the existence of large data sets comprising patients’ genetic and clinical information. Today, that data is fragmented and guarded in silos. Indeed, the well-kept secret in the cancer space is that progress in finding cures is being impeded as much by the lack of sharing by the players in the precision medicine ecosystem as it is by the stubbornness of the underlying science.

If you're emerging from the holidays having put on a little weight, you're not alone: the average person gains about a pound between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. But the good news is that a few simple changes to your routine can help you shed the weight quickly. "After the holidays, it's smart to get back on track by making small, realistic changes, instead of setting yourself up for failure by being overly drastic," says Keri Gans, RDN, a New York City-based nutrition consultant and author of The Small Change Diet.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual Technology Transfer Report on Nov. 22, revealing the new inventions researchers, universities, and small businesses created in the past year.

This year’s report includes 222 new inventions, 94 awarded patents, and 125 new patent applications. According to a USDA press release, some prominent discoveries are a bio-refinery that turned a city landfill into an “energy park”, computer chips made from wood fiber, cost-effective solar-powered irrigation pumps for remote communities, and robotic apple pickers.

The National Science Foundation last week released its annual report on the top universities in total research and development expenditures. Johns Hopkins University led with $2,305,679,000 in spending in 2015, but Hopkins always leads this ranking because the university's total includes expenditures by the Applied Physics Laboratory, the largest of the country's affiliated research centers that conduct research to support national security.

By selecting Betsy DeVos to become the next secretary of education, President-elect Donald J. Trump has signaled his commitment to an ambitious plan to reform elementary and secondary education. But after a campaign during which Mr. Trump offered few details on higher education, the pick does little to clarify his vision for that sector.

In 2000, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published the results of a by-now famous research study examining the brains of London taxi drivers who had navigated the city’s streets for years. The researchers found that the part of the taxi drivers’ brains that deal with spatial relationships—the hippocampus—had grown in size and contained a higher number of neural networks. Essentially, the taxi drivers had changed their brains by navigating London so much.

It’s fun to imagine the AI future of home service robots, Amazon Dots in every room, delivery drones and more accurate home medical diagnoses. But while it’s natural that flashy consumer applications are capturing the public’s imaginations, AI’s capacity to transform another area doesn’t get as much attention – the way software itself is developed.

China joins the ranks of the world’s 25 most-innovative economies, while Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Finland and Singapore lead the 2016 rankings in the Global Innovation Index, released today by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The Commission's Start-up and Scale-up Initiative aims to give Europe's many innovative entrepreneurs every opportunity to become world leading companies. It pulls together all the possibilities that the EU already offers and adds a new focus on venture capital investment,insolvency law and taxation

Friedman (coauthor of That Used to Be Us), a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his work as a reporter with the New York Times, engages in an intelligent but overlong discussion of the faster paces of change in technology, globalization, and climate around the world. His core argument is that “simultaneous accelerations in the Market, Mother Nature and Moore’s law” (the principle that the power of microchips doubles every two years) constitute an “Age of Accelerations,” in which people who feel “fearful or unmoored” must “pause and reflect” rather than panic.

There’s a widespread misconception that the only way to start loving your life, is to quit your day job, move to Thailand, and start your own business from a beachside villa. While this surely makes for sweet pic on Instagram, the truth is that finding fulfilling work may involve starting your own venture, but it can also mean sharing your gifts by working for another organization, whether it’s a large company, or a tiny start-up.

The federal government has introduced legislation that will enable startups and small businesses to gain access to capital through crowdfunding, almost 12 months after the original equity crowdfunding legislation was unveiled.

Under the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Bill 2016, unlisted public companies with under $25 million in assets and annual turnover will be able to raise as much as $5 million a year on crowdfunding platforms.

Your nose may be the first place you think of as a source of mucus. But mucus is a major player in your gut, too. "There's antimicrobial peptides and proteins that are present in there. Bacteria live in there and forage on the carbohydrates. And it's a lubricant, it helps sweep contents down the GI tract, without injuring the epithelial layer." 

Located on a deserted beach in China, this library is gorgeous and would be the perfect spot to study to ace any test. 

The past couple of weeks must have been difficult for Donald Trump’s more zealous supporters, what with the president-elect doing a 180 on some of his more extreme campaign initiatives.

Remember all that talk about prosecuting Hillary Clinton? Now it’s, “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons,” as he told The New York Times.

And his vow to authorize waterboarding? That apparently went out the window, too, after Trump had a conversation with the former head of the U.S. Central Command, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who told him the technique didn’t work.

The intersection of big data and business is growing daily. Although enterprises have been studying analytics for decades, data science is a relatively new capability. And interacting in a new data-driven culture can be difficult, particularly for those who aren’t data experts.

Feeling stressed lately? Chances are you're not alone. We carry varying degrees of stress around with us all the time—sometimes more, sometimes less. Does that pressure make us more productive or less? As with so many aspects of human psychology, the answer is: It depends. But what it depends on is something called the Yerkes-Dodson curve, a theory that dates back to 1908. Here's how understanding it can help you channel the stress you may be feeling into energy to get things done.

On staying busy: "Once you’ve accomplished a goal, you’re all done. And I don’t ever want to be all done." On collaborating: "I don’t walk into a meeting with a ‘me, me, me’ attitude. I walk in and say, ‘How do I become your partner?’ "

2015 marked an important milestone for the American workplace.

The millennial generation — those born roughly between 1982 and 2004 — now surpasses Generation X in comprising the largest share of the American workforce. According to the Pew Research Center, more than a third of American workers are millennials.