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7 things you didn’t know about CERN and the strange world of particle physics

Four years after the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, the world’s biggest science experiment is still seeking to unlock the mysteries of our universe.

Brexit, China, Zika and oil – how the IMF sees the global economy in 2016

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its outlook for global economic growth slightly downwards for 2016 and 2017 in the wake of Brexit, the first major indication of the toll...

10 interviews with inspiring female scientists

From peering at the outer reaches of our universe to probing the innermost workings of our genes, women are pushing back the frontiers of science.

Introducing a series of poems on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The World Economic Forum has commissioned Brian Bilston, the “unofficial poet laureate of Twitter”, to write a series of four poems on the theme of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

“You can’t do it with miserable people watching the clock all day”: Jeff Bezos on work-life harmony

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, shared his thoughts on how to foster innovation at work, the importance of happiness, and the job he would most hate to do, in an interview at the Code Conf...

The hyperloop, passenger drones and other audacious transport breakthroughs

A “hyperloop” transport system that could one day propel people through giant tubes at 750mph, a brainchild of the prolific pioneer Elon Musk, has undergone its first test in the Nevada d...

“亲爱的，这是男人的世界。”真的吗？

7 leadership lessons from Shakespeare

Shakespeare, arguably the most celebrated writer who ever lived, died on 23 April in 1616. World Book Day is held on this date to recognize the passing of the Bard, as well as the death o...

'It’s a man’s world, sweetie' – how 3 female leaders dealt with sexism

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Women and work. The system is broken, so how can we fix it?

It will be 118 years before women have the same career prospects as men. No country in the world has closed its gender gap. Even as female leaders steer multinationals and major economies...

The economics of the Valentine's Day rose

Nothing says I love you like an arbitrarily fixed number of uniformly coloured flowers wrapped in cellophane and sold at a 50% price premium. Right?

A brief history of the fight against cancer

Watch US Vice-President Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot here.

Recap of Davos 2016

Are we on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution? Most participants in Davos think so. And it’s unlike anything we’ve ever experienced: “As a society, we are entering uncharted territ...

Top blogs of Davos 2016

From the Fourth Industrial Revolution to feminism, education to Europe, the ideas that dominated this year's Annual Meeting in Davos also resonated online. Below is a selection of the mos...

Recap of day 3 at Davos 2016

“We are not the prisoners of a predetermined future,” John Kerry said at Davos on Thursday, as world leaders discussed just what that future should look like -- from the fallout of the Fo...