Emma Luxton is a writer at Formative Content. Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
Imagine you’re an astronaut, zooming about in space. Suddenly your spacecraft malfunctions. You could fix the problem immediately, but you don’t have the right tools. Instead you wait day...
You’re looking for your dream job, and you receive an offer, but how do you know if this one is the one? Maths.
They’re set to make up a third of the global workforce by 2020 and are expecting to work well into old age, so businesses need to know what millennials look for in a job.
Encouraging people to work from home doesn’t just appeal to employees; it could help build trust and increase productivity, according to an MIT study.
Ever since humans have been able to glimpse Jupiter’s swirling storms and mysterious red spot (twice as wide as planet Earth), the planet has been regarded as one of unusual beauty.
Hong Kong has come in first as the city with the highest cost of living for expatriates, knocking Africa’s most expensive city, Luanda, off the top spot.
Malnutrition has become “the new normal”, affecting one in three people – many of whom are overweight, according to a World Health Organization report that warns of the scale of the healt...
Child mortality rates have declined sharply in the last 25 years. In 1990 almost 9 million children died before they reached their first birthday, a fact that helped spur the global commu...
Investment in green energy is on the rise, and a world powered entirely by renewables is no longer a distant dream, with a handful of countries hitting 100% renewable electricity producti...
Twice as fast and three times as efficient as its predecessor, China’s Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer has officially become the most powerful computer in the world.
References are a vital part of job applications. For employers, they provide insight into how potential hires work from the people who know them best: their former managers. But what if y...
Giving people tiny rewards can motivate them to put more effort into their work, a new study has found.
Five trillion individual pieces, weighing a total of 268,000 tonnes. When the numbers are so big, it’s difficult to take in the full scale of the problem of plastic waste in the world’s o...
Holding on to her title for the sixth year in a row, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops Forbes’ annual list of the most powerful women in the world.
The Arctic is becoming greener, according to NASA, which has released a video showing almost 30% of land in the region turning leafier over the past 28 years.
