This week the European Union outlined the world’s first comprehensive green-financing guidelines to regulate finance-industry claims in the thriving area of environmentally sustainable investment AKA ESG products. While the rules will apply only in the EU, they could have a broad effect due to Europe’s large financial markets and leadership in the sector. Lancelot King, counsel in...Read More

IMAGINE investing in a good story. A big story, tracing the arc of a megatrend – not just a cycle – that will propel those riding the wave far forward. That’s what thematic investing is about: betting on the robotics revolution, rapid urbanisation, or the fact that many of today’s incumbents will be heavily disrupted...Read More

  3D printing has proven itself useful in so many industries that it’s no longer necessary to show off, but some people just can’t help themselves. Case in point: this millimeter-tall rendition of Michelangelo’s famous “David” printed with copper using a newly developed technique. The aptly named “Tiny David” was created by Exaddon, a spin-off...Read More

It’s goal-setting season, and many of us are looking to switch things up in our working lives next year. This can be tricky because, even when you know it’s time for a change, it can be hard to know exactly where to start and what to do. Sometimes, it’s hard to define what it is...Read More

  Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind model to control traffic and intersections in order to increase autonomous car capacity on urban streets of the future, reduce congestion and minimize accidents. In the not-so-distant future, city streets could be flooded with autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars can move faster and travel closer together, allowing more of them...Read More

  Guangdong becomes focus as China races the US to build bigger particle accelerators Scientist says the competition between the two countries will ultimately be for the good of the human race. Scientists in southern China are planning to create machines that will be used to unravel the mysteries of the building blocks of the...Read More

  This fall, there were nearly 250,000 fewer students enrolled in college than a year ago, according to new numbers out Monday from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which tracks college enrollment by student. “That’s a lot of students that we’re losing,” says Doug Shapiro, who leads the research center at the Clearinghouse. And...Read More

Ten years after the publication of their first plan for powering the world with wind, water, and solar, researchers offer an updated vision of the steps that 143 countries around the world can take to attain 100% clean, renewable energy by the year 2050. The new roadmaps, publishing December 20 in the journal One Earth,...Read More

For the world of social media, 2020 arrives with no shortage of drama. As the U.S. presidential election cycle shifts into high gear, controversies over political ads and privacy have resurfaced, with talk of “breaking up” the big networks gaining momentum. At the same time, brand new social platforms like TikTok have emerged to give...Read More

Transforming our economies from linear to circular can help us reach our climate change goals. What does going circular mean? Using energy-efficient manufacturing processes, making products with a long life-span, designing waste out as much as possible and recycling and reworking products that have reached their end of life for new uses. Source: World Economic...Read More