How can we get the other half of the world online? | Continue reading
9 out of 10 Finnish companies already offer their workforce flexible-working options. | Continue reading
Singapore, a steamy, low-lying island city-state, is the fifth most likely country in the world to face extremely high water stress by 2040. | Continue reading
Autonomous vehicles could have a transformational impact on society. But they never will unless the general public overcome their current fear of them. | Continue reading
Professor of Economics at MIT Daron Acemoglu believes we ought to be wary of simple solutions - and says universal basic income is no exception. | Continue reading
It's often said that the AI revolution will only benefit highly skilled workers. But there is a hidden army of labor labelling the data on which it relies. | Continue reading
The Finnish company, Solar Foods, has designed a high-protein powder made from CO2, water and electricity. | Continue reading
Farming octopuses is not only unethical but deeply damaging to the environment, scientists say. | Continue reading
For most of us, the humble lamppost is just that. We pass them in the street every day without a thought, but the European Union believes they are the key to the future of Smart Cities. | Continue reading
The computing ecosystem must continue to evolve – maybe into the quantum realm – if AI is to come to full fruition. | Continue reading
Today, farming is a major cause of climate change 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. | Continue reading
Madeleine Hillyer, US Media Relations, Tel. +1 (0) 646 592 5044; madeleine.hillyer@weforum.org | Continue reading
Looking at natural climate cycles as an explanation for rapid global warming is a misleading metric, evidence suggests. | Continue reading
AI has already revolutionized a number of industries. Could it do the same for fashion? | Continue reading
Mussels are known as a foundation species — they provide shelter and habitat for a lot of animals, so when you impact that core habitat, it ripples throughout the rest of the system. | Continue reading
Rising temperatures are causing the frozen ground that covers large parts of the Earth to break up, adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere | Continue reading
If you're especially into a piece of music, your brain does something called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), which feels to you like a tingling in your brain or scalp. | Continue reading
The study also suggests that reforesting such a large area wouldn't impact our capacity for growing and farming food. | Continue reading
A new study shows that bilinguals do indeed think about time differently, depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events. | Continue reading
Designed to reach speeds of up to 600 km/h, the prototype magnetic levitation train could travel between Shanghai and Beijing in just three and a half hours. | Continue reading
Microplastics are now so prevalent throughout the environment that a study by the University of Newcastle has reached a worrying conclusion about just how much we each consume. | Continue reading
Between 2010 and 2018, setup costs for solar have fallen by 80% in India, the most precipitous decline of any country. | Continue reading
Backed by complex machines and artificial intelligence, government action will become even more impenetrable for the average citizen. How can future governments work with and for the governed? | Continue reading
Body language can be a lot more telling than what people say. That's why its important to know what to look out for. | Continue reading
Many environmentally-conscious Swedes are encouraging others to opt for rail over air. | Continue reading
This animated map shows how early migrants from Africa populated the planet. | Continue reading
Working less would have a range of benefits for workers and the world should embrace the four-day working week, according to two experts at Davos 2019. | Continue reading
The philosophy of Stoicism can help people reach a level of clear-headed thinking, says cognitive behavioral psychotherapist Donald Robertson. | Continue reading
"In Star Trek, the characters were knowledge workers and did not seem to worry about food, lodging or acceptance." | Continue reading
Instead of labeling millennials as 'snowflakes', we should take a long, hard look at modern work culture, argues one expert. | Continue reading
In the context of modern times, flags are best known as national symbols — and they’re used to air a country’s past, present, and future vision all rolled into one. | Continue reading
Starbucks plans to open one store every 15 hours across China, but Luckin has plans to be even faster. | Continue reading
You can walk, ride, cycle, ski and camp on any land you like in Sweden, regardless of who owns it, with just a few exceptions. ‘Everyman’s right’ is a medieval custom that's been passed as law in modern times. | Continue reading
The ChallengeBlockchain has the potential to revolutionize sectors and ecosystems in which trust is needed among parties with misaligned interests. It is precisely within these contexts, however, that deploying such a new and complex technology can be the most difficult. Providin … | Continue reading
Indian cities dominate a list of the fastest-growing urban economies in the world between 2019 and 2035. | Continue reading
The AI also came up with a motto for the game - 'Face the ball to be the ball to be above the ball’. | Continue reading
Some occupations are held in higher esteem than others. But what if, in the future doctors or lawyers were robots, would people still have as much respect for professions like medicine? | Continue reading
With demand for meat outstripping production, what are the alternatives and how commercially viable are they? | Continue reading
A compulsory recycling scheme in South Korea has dramatically cut the amount of food the country throws away. Here's how it works. | Continue reading
It also causes 800,000 premature deaths in Europe every year, with an 'Iron Curtain' dividing East and West. | Continue reading
A look at how gun culture and legislation varies around the world, as New Zealand seeks to ban semi-automatic weapons after a deadly shooting. | Continue reading
This index on innovative countries covers everything from the concentration of tech companies to the number of science and engineering graduates. | Continue reading
Design free-thought can break us out of the traps of ideology and commercial imperatives that have driven entrepreneurship in the past. | Continue reading
A new report argues that the digital technology sector is probably the world’s most powerful influencer for accelerating effective climate action. Here's how it might work. | Continue reading
Against the backdrop of a "techlash", the CEO of Microsoft called for new global norms on privacy, data and Artificial Intelligence. | Continue reading
Surging market volatility and plunging trade growth have increased the risk of recession, writes IHS Markit's Chief Economist Dr Nariman Behravesh. Here are his top forecasts for this year. | Continue reading
While record-low interest rates have made it easy to service existing government debt, it’s also created a situation where debt has grown to over $63 trillion in absolute terms. | Continue reading
Globalization 4.0 is the theme of Davos 2019. Professor Klaus Schwab explains what it means and how it will benefit us all | Continue reading