How to get over your fear of public speaking
When it comes to people’s greatest fears, public speaking is up there with fear of spiders. While fear teaches you to protect yourself in risky situations, letting that fear stand between you and your audience could prevent you from sharing inspiring ideas, speaking about important work, and Read More...
The craze for ethical investment has reached Japan
Japan is prone to fads—usually in fancy desserts or fashion ripe for Instagram. A less photogenic one has hit finance: investing in assets screened for ESG (environmental, social and governance) Read More...
Lagos is set to overtake Nairobi as Africa’s startup capital
As Africa’s tech startups and their founders go about creating disrupting industries or, in some cases, building new ones, they’ve typically tended to mushroom across three major ecosystems: Nairobi, Cape Town and Lagos. But over the past year, Read More...
Waymo marks a major self-driving milestone
Waymo's autonomous cars have steadily rolled through test routes in multiple states over the past few years, and now the company claims it has passed a new milestone: 4 million self-driven miles logged on public roads. That makes the Waymo fleet Read More...
SkyCool’s panels can cast heat into space
In the small rear suite of a light industrial building near the San Francisco airport, Eli Goldstein looks over a set of silver panels tilted on metal racking. The panels look like simple mirrors, but Read More...
Dark ocean bacteria discovered to play large role in carbon capture
Marine bacteria that live in the dark depths of the ocean play a newly discovered and significant role in the global carbon cycle, according to a new study published in Science. The "dark ocean" - everything that lies below 200 meters - makes up 90 Read More...
Fighting climate change starts with what you put on your plate
While meat is considered to be the main food-related contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, there are plenty of highly processed foods that also add to emissions. Worst of all, these processed foods such as salty snacks and sweets add to the burden of greenhouses gases without doing anything for Read More...
This microbot made of algae can swim through your body
While microbots are expected to flow through our bodies to keep them in check by 2030, the prospects for these microbots are still limited by challenges in powering the devices and guiding them through the body. A team of researchers from China may have found a solution to both problems. See here Read More...
Shell to install rapid-charging stations across Europe
Oil-giant Shell is teaming with a Munich-based venture company to start installing charging stations in 10 European nations. The agreement will initially have charging points put in at 80 of Shell’s biggest highway fuel stations, with an average of six posts in each. Best of all, the charging Read More...
From immigrant to CEO: The humbling story of Uber’s new CEO
When Dara Khosrowshahi arrived in the United States from Iran at the age of 9, his family lost almost everything they had. Now, some 40 years later, Khosrowshahi has become the CEO of Uber. Take a look here at the Uber CEO’s unlikely rise to the top and learn why loss is a valuable part of Read More...