What do you get if you mix sand, bacteria and sunlight? A self-replicating building material that pulls CO2 straight out of the atmosphere, according to research engineers at one universi...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaking up the global pecking order, allowing many smaller countries to stand tall in a new competitive landscape. Established metrics such as gross domest...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar might be the greatest 'bookworm' of all - he or she chewed actual holes in the book - part of the story's enduring appeal to generations of very young readers.
By 2050, Europe wants to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent – that’s the key message in a series of goals and initiatives announced by the European Commission known as the...
It’s around 4,800 kilometres from New York to Los Angeles – coast-to-coast, northeast to southwest, across the mountains, plains and prairies of 13 different states. It’s a journey that w...
Some of the biggest names in the global tech space have joined the fight against the coronavirus.
The novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has now been detected in 23 countries, with more than 17,000 people confirmed to be infected.
New schools and new views on teaching are springing up around the world to help prepare the next generation for a rapidly changing employment landscape.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Transparency International Chair Delia Ferreira Rubio unveiled the main themes and findings of the organization's new report ...
要实现男女平等任重而道远。事实上，到目前为止，可能还没有人在有生之年能够看到这一目标的实现——这是世界经济论坛《2020年全球性别差距报告》中令人震惊的结论。
Many world leaders attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, including prime ministers, presidents and royalty from across the globe. The European Union was represented b...
On 1 June 1941, with Europe in turmoil as the Second World War raged, Oliver Lyttelton, who was President of the British Board of Trade, announced that clothes would be rationed in the UK.
The challenges facing the world are overwhelming, from the climate crisis to stubborn rates of poverty, inequality and ill health.
Kayaking around the craggy shores of West Cork, in a remote corner of Ireland, Fionn Ferreira’s eye was drawn to the amount of plastic pollution being washed in by the Atlantic.
If you want to improve something you have to be able to measure it. That’s as true for elite athletes as it is for the challenge of reducing food waste. One-third of all the food produced...
