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The next start-up cities that will transform the global economy
There will be no 'new Silicon Valley' – but there are a pack of up and coming cities with thriving ecosystems for start-up ventures.
There will be no 'new Silicon Valley' – but there are a pack of up and coming cities with thriving ecosystems for start-up ventures.
Today, farming is a major climate change cause through emissions, nitrogen runoff and aquifer depletion. But it doesn't need to be this way. Here's how farms can become a key climate ally.
Despite this year's slowdown in AI investment in China, experts predict a transformative future for the industry.
Pulling out of Europe threatens the funding and international cooperation on which cutting-edge research depends.
After a bleak and unfinished ending to the Hanoi summit earlier this year, Donald Trump made a historic walk on June 30 as the first sitting US president to step into North Korea where he...
World Economic Forum Young Scientist Pierre Karam is integrating biosensors into smartphones in order to monitor and control waterborne and infectious diseases in resource-limited settings.
China's flagship project will bring much-needed development to many countries – but unless explicit carbon-limiting principles are adopted we have no hope of meeting the Paris Agreement.
The study of evolution allows us to reconstruct the past and to understand how life evolved from simple to complex organisms. Evolutionary reasoning can help us make sense of the biggest ...
With climate change and environmental degradation looming, technologies that can build greater resiliency into planetary and man-made systems are the new prize.
The Internet of Things means we will soon be surrounded by thousands of sensors and devices - they will need batteries that don't need replacing.
'Born digital' companies think in fundamentally different ways to traditional ones. Here are the key takeaway principles to build your business.
Long-term scientific projects like CERN and the European fusion project ITER produce many discoveries in unexpected fields along the way.
Beijing is at the helm when it comes to shaping what a marine industrial revolution will mean for the health of the seas.
The world needs innovation, wherever it comes from. A cheaper, more streamlined system for filing patents will level the playing field.
It seems as though the world is facing an increasingly polarised choice between closed-market nationalism and anti-prosperity socialism - which is why it's time to make the case for capi...