A generation of African-born founders left good jobs abroad to come home and build companies, and their governments are now trying to turn that choice into policy.
A generation of African-born founders left jobs abroad to build companies at home, turning diaspora capital into deliberate economic strategy.
A new global map shows precisely which coral reefs are likely to survive the climate crisis, and the unglamorous, community-level work already underway on some of them.
A new global map shows which coral reefs can survive climate change, and the Bahamian community already restoring one of them.
Cut a cross-section through a Douglas fir trunk and you are looking at a machine that has been moving and banking energy, without pumping, for a century or more. Materials scientists have started looking at that machine less as a metaphor and more as a blueprint. ONE IDEA A tree’s vascular system solves a problem
Biomimicry researchers are looking to plant biology for clues that could make grid-scale energy storage cheaper and longer-lasting.
Sensor networks and old infrastructure are an unlikely but increasingly common pairing, and the results are already reshaping how utilities decide where to dig. Most of the pipes carrying drinking water under major cities were laid before anyone thought to make them smart. Some of the cast-iron mains beneath American streets predate the automobile. Retrofitting
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Sensor networks and old infrastructure are an unlikely but increasingly common pairing.
Every recession produces the same headline twice: a wave of household-name public companies cutting jobs and slashing dividends, and a quieter observation, usually buried further down the story, that the family-owned firm down the street just kept going. The pattern is common enough that researchers have spent two decades trying to explain it. The explanation
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A look at why multi-generational businesses tend to survive downturns that sink their public competitors.