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7 things you didn’t know about CERN and the strange world of particle physics

The Large Hadron Collider is colder than outer space, 95% of the universe is unknown and other surprising facts about CERN's ambitious experiments.

Brexit, China, Zika and oil – how the IMF sees the global economy in 2016

The IMF has revised its outlook for global economic growth slightly downwards for 2016 and 2017 in the wake of Brexit, the first major indication of the toll that the uncertainty stirred ...

10 interviews with inspiring female scientists

Ahead of our meeting in China, which focusses on science and technology, we’re publishing a series of interviews with 10 inspiring female scientists: from young researchers starting out i...

Introducing a series of poems on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The World Economic Forum has commissioned Brian Bilston, the “unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter”, to write a series of four poems on the theme of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

“You can’t do it with miserable people watching the clock all day”: Jeff Bezos on work-life harmony

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, shared his thoughts on how to foster innovation at work, the importance of happiness, and the job he would most hate to do.

The hyperloop, passenger drones and other audacious transport breakthroughs

A “hyperloop” transport system that could one day propel people through giant tubes at 750mph, a brainchild of the prolific pioneer Elon Musk, has undergone its first test in the Nevada d...

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7 leadership lessons from Shakespeare

Leadership advice from some of Shakespeare's most famous – and infamous – of characters.

'It’s a man’s world, sweetie' – how 3 female leaders dealt with sexism

Christine Lagarde walked out of a job interview; Drew Faust ignored her mother's advice.

Women and work. The system is broken, so how can we fix it?

Over 100 years after women first gained suffrage, and progress towards workplace gender parity is still too slow. How can we speed it up?

The economics of the Valentine's Day rose

Nothing says I love you like an arbitrarily fixed number of uniformly coloured flowers wrapped in cellophane and sold at a 50% price premium. Right?

A brief history of the fight against cancer

This week in Davos, US Vice-President Joe Biden will give an update on his call for a “moonshot” to beat cancer.

Recap of Davos 2016

Some of the highlights from the Forum's Annual Meeting.

Top blogs of Davos 2016

From the Fourth Industrial Revolution to feminism, education to Europe, the ideas that dominated this year's Annual Meeting in Davos also resonated online.

Recap of day 3 at Davos 2016

A run-through of the third day in Davos.