La tecnología que permite a nuestros jefes controlar la actividad de nuestro cerebro ya está aquí. El SmartCap es un invento australiano diseñado para controlar los niveles de fatiga en l...
DNA tests on almost 1,000 people have shown all non-Africans are related to a single population that migrated from Africa between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Technology is allowing us to monitor our health and fitness like never before. Our smartphones can track every step we take. Dedicated monitors like the Fitbit analyze our movement and ou...
Most of us wouldn’t know where to begin answering the question that frames one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. Twenty-one-year-old Boyan Slat is not like the rest of...
Cancer is a frightening disease and one that’s difficult to talk about for many people. Global rates of cancer are increasing, mostly as a result of longer lifespans. While recent medical...
Neuroeconomics is a relatively new branch of science. Professor Jonathan Cohen, a director at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, describes it as a discipline that tries to bridge econo...
A hundred years from now, Elon Musk could be lauded as a visionary genius – or labelled a fantasist.
The United States is the world’s largest economy and has the mightiest military force on the planet. The US president is routinely referred to as the most powerful person in the world.
Juan Manuel Santos has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, just two weeks after declaring to the United Nations:“There is one less war on the planet.”
Computers that can feel emotions and think for themselves have been a staple of science fiction for decades. Now scientists are trying to teach machines to imagine. The aim is to speed up...
India is a key topic at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on India’s Turn to Transform here.
When the last Concorde touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport in November 2003, the first era of supersonic passenger flight came to an end.
“Coal is China. China is coal.” That was the summary given by the International Energy Agency in 2012 as it attempted to contextualize the global industry. At that time China was producin...
《全球护照指数》通过统计持该国护照可以免申请签证的国家数量而对各国护照进行排名，这份最新的排名告诉我们到底哪个国家才是“护照力”最强的国家。德国和瑞典在这个结果中排名并列第一，持这两国护照的人可以无需申请签证而前往158个国家。美国和英国在去年的这份排名中占据首位，但今年美国滑落至第四名，英国和法国、西班牙、瑞士、芬兰几个国家一起排在第二位。 下图展示了全世界各国的护照...
Engineers in China have begun trial operations of the world’s biggest ship lift at the Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River.
