The cities they run function as vertically integrated conglomerates that benefit not just from the success of their local ...

Robin Rivaton is a tech founder and author of Why China Will Run the 21st Century.

When America’s economy overtook Britain’s a century ago, it remade the world order. How it happened is still debated. Once upon a time, Western opinion leaders found themselves both impressed and ...

The phones we carry around in our pockets have two million times more memory and are thousands of times faster than the room-sized computers that guided the Apollo mission to the Moon. This incredible ...

Over three thousand years ago, on a plain beside the Orontes River in Syria, two great armies clashed in what may at the time have been the most colossal battle ever seen: the Battle of Kadesh. The ...

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing. Medical innovation has transformed our lives, but hardly anyone realizes it.

In recent decades, Europe has fallen behind the United States. In 2000, incomes in the original six members of the European Union were just 10 percent behind Americans. Today, they are 20 percent ...

1,961. That’s the number of documents contained within a single planning application for a wind farm off the northeast coast of England – capable of powering around 1.5 million homes. The ...

Between the 1860s and 1920, successive outbreaks of typhoid fever killed over 300,000 Americans. As population growth surged and people moved to urban areas en masse, American cities began to dump ...

Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6.4 percent, and ...

Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth. In ...