G7 finance ministers at London’s Lancaster House on Saturday June 5.
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To weigh the prospects of a transformation, it pays to look at the markets.
An aritst’s impression of the Boom Overture – the supersonic jet set to carry fare-paying passengers by 2029.
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Supersonic jet technology has moved on since Concorde’s final flight in 2003.
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Crude text scams, sent en masse, only have to work a handful of times to make criminals significant sums of cash.
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Well known retailers are too often stifled by risk averse corporate culture.
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Why do groups of knowledgable people sometimes all make the same flawed decisions?
A Eurasian beaver swimming in Devon’s River Otter catchment, UK.
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By studying where rewilding has worked well around the world, we’ve worked out the dos and don'ts.
For cybersecurity, your best bet is to assume that the enemy has already slipped inside.
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Most people think of trust as active – you place your trust in someone or you don’t. But weak cybersecurity, like leaving your front door unlocked, is a matter of trust, too.
Sneakers have become highly covetable collectors’ items.
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As sneakers have gone from sportswear to fashion item, the market for the shoe has exploded.
Becoming ‘unfit’ happens a lot faster than it takes us to get ‘fit’.
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We lose some fitness ‘gains’ in as little as four weeks.
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Lost revenue is money that could be spent on lifting people out of poverty.
Are microbes travelling around in the galaxy?
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A new study argues we should search for microbial life rather than human-like aliens.
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We shouldn’t allow disingenuous uses of net zero to discredit the concept as a whole.
SpaceX concept of Starship.
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Three private companies have recently been commissioned to develop nuclear fission thermal rockets for use in orbit around the Moon.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
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Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a view of the city in the background. Date: circa 1908.
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A missing girl, a sensational trial, and the troubled history of anti-trafficking.
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Or have we reached peak human intelligence?
An ironworks in Durgapur, India.
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Countries cannot be expected to all tread the same path to net zero emissions.
Production line 2021.
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A new study asked over 1,000 workers how productive they were at home, and the results shine a light into how companies should approach remote working in future.
A tropical rainforest in South America.
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Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
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It may seem a long way away, but meeting targets in 2035 demands taking action today.