Listen to would-be space explorers for long enough, and eventually they will likely argue that humans must develop outposts on other worlds in case of disaster here on Earth, as a so-called Planet B. But that’s a dangerous narrative, said Kathryn Denning, an anthropologist at York University in Canada who …

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, shown in this photo taken in Para state in August 2019, has risen sharply this year Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to official data released Saturday.   The 563 square kilometers (217 square …

In their embrace of more digitized ways of working, many organizations have adopted robotics to automate repetitive processes. Now those organizations are seeking to scale these solutions with artificial intelligence to go beyond the routine to the innovative. In May 2019, Deloitte surveyed 523 executives in a range of industries …

The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of Greenland’s annual mass loss occurs through calving of icebergs such as this. Credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washington Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is …

HBR Staff/Pexels/Unsplash Unlike the earth’s climate, the climate for business deals remained stubbornly unchanged in 2019 — or did it? Business deals are both a lagging and a leading indicator of economic transformations. Some reflect past conditions; others signal emerging trends. A review of the past year’s most remarkable deals …

HBR Staff/mheim3011/Getty Images In 2012, facing growing competition from Apple and Google, Microsoft unveiled what it believed would be the next big thing: Windows 8. The team at Microsoft poured millions of dollars into R&D, creating countless innovative features, but ultimately the platform struggled to gain traction with customers. With …

The Israeli invention was selected for a special grant provided by a joint U.S.-Israel initiative to advance clean energy technologies. By United with Israel Staff Israeli researchers working with a company called Exency in Sderot are developing “a low-cost and high-efficiency solid biomass and solid waste fueled electricity generation system,” …

When I looked into the user interface of Mojo Vision’s augmented reality contact lenses, I didn’t see anything at first except the real world in front of me. Only when I peeked over toward the periphery did a small yellow weather icon appear. When I examined it more closely, I …

IRINGA, Uganda — You could hear a pin drop as we all stood together just outside the door of the local clinic, focusing on a single light bulb above. “One, two, three,” intoned Robert Khakhosi slowly, as the tension mounted. The freshly installed solar-panel-powered light was switched on, and the …

dorian2013/Getty Images On paper, crowdsourced innovation makes a lot of sense: If two heads are better than one, why not 20,000? Surely, some of those outsiders will have fresh solutions to your problem. But in practice, such programs have often not worked out as well as hoped. More often than …