3 Factors That Influence Solar Forecasting
The future of solar energy can shed light on what impacts energy use today.
How to Motivate Your Team to Innovate
There are three important ingredients to innovation: willingness to experiment, measuring progress and carving out time for your team.
Texas startup is creating clean hydrogen from microbes in old oil wells
Charles Nelson, chief business officer at Cemvita, told Newsweek "the ground is our equipment, so we don't have to build anything new to be able to do this."
Worm spit can digest the world's most-polluting plastic
Enzymes isolated from wax-worm saliva have been shown to break down the most-commonly used form of plastic, polyethylene.
Fleet Electrification Is Accelerating: Here's How Technology Is Helping
Taken together, I believe the advantages of EVs explode out to buyers on just about everything.
Americans Are Being Turned Into Human Compost to Save the Planet
A new bill in California has legalized human composting. "We can't just keep putting bodies in the ground," said one advocate to Newsweek.
Scientists Discover Monkeys Use Stones as Sex Toys
Researchers have found that long-tailed macaques in Indonesia use stone tools to masturbate, in a rare occurrence of tool use for sexual pleasure.
Unpacking the Cycle of Commercialization of New Technology
For blockchain software to enter the mainstream market, it will need to evolve beyond the use case of purely speculative cryptocurrencies, to be embraced by more traditional markets and institutions for their own innovation.
Joe Biden Wants More Defense Contractors to Fight the New Cold War
"We undoubtedly have 20th-century contracting rules and regulations in a 21st-century world," Congressman Jason Crow told Newsweek.
Change Management: How To Stop Fearing Automation and Embrace Technological
Managers are ultimately in charge of taking their people to the next stage of automation; leadership must come from the top in order to generate bottom-up change.
Democrats Look to Recapture Middle America with High-Tech Manufacturing
"If we offer a real plan, a real vision, and we deliver on that, then I think we can start to win back the trust of voters who have left us," Rep. Khanna said.
Ford's Mega Power Frunk is a Funky New Cargo Space
The Mega Power Frunk front cargo space in the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning allows for a new type of pickup truck storage area.
Building the Miami Movement
It started with a response to a late-night query: "why don't we move Silicon Valley to Miami?"
K-Pop Music Helps Put South Korea on United Nations' Innovation List
"What COVID has done is that it has disrupted certain industries, but it has accelerated certain industries," WIPO Director General Daren Tang said.
We Need a Strong U.S-E.U. Partnership To Counter China
We need all hands on deck to confront the China challenge.
'We Made a Hospital Ward Out Of Trash'
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we became aware that there was a lot of PPE waste. So, we diverted all our resources back into our community and figured out how to build hospitals.
Operation Warp Speed Was a Tremendous Success. Let's Build on It
Our national stockpile should be used to strengthen essential American industries—not to foster greater dependence on China.
Three Things We Need: Bipartisanship, Innovation and National Security
America has long had its eye on a range of critical areas, ensuring that we have domestic production and do not have to rely upon unfriendly foreign sources.
Innovation Is Not Enough
The talent to create innovations ultimately follows the production facility.
These Sustainability Innovations Around the World Are Revolutionary
From Copenhagen's ski slope atop a waste-to-energy plant to the world's first 3D-printed neighborhood in Mexico, these innovations are helping to create a more sustainable tomorrow.
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Innovators in Japan Are Developing New Technologies to Counter Coronavirus
Solutions are needed as we face this "new normal," and several innovators have stepped forward with some new ideas.
Pendo CEO Todd Olson Reinvents Digital Communication in Businesses, Schools
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated many U.S. industries, but speeded the transition to the digital economy — and Pendo took full advantage of the opportunity.
Innovators Should Turn to a Frontier as Challenging as Space: Food Poverty
All too often, the ideas that get people excited tend toward the futuristic, like rocket ships and quantum computers. In an unequal society, these sorts of things don't benefit those most in need.
New U.S.-U.K Trade Agreement Must Prioritize American Intellectual Property
A U.S.-U.K. trade deal is the perfect opportunity to create a new, gold standard for international trade.
Cultural Adaptations in the Time of Corona
From bringing back a tradition of "paying it forward" in Italy to a 1950s American throwback to drive-in movies, here is how people around the globe have looked to the past—and to the future—for ideas to get through the current crisis with aplomb.
Property Rights Protect Global Innovation
Intellectual property rights do for scientists what proper PPE does for doctors and nurses.
Can You Sell Driverless Cars to Loyal Car Customers?
Forget cars: Ford is now in the "mobility" business. In an exclusive Newsweek interview, company CEO Jim Hackett says autonomous vehicles are the biggest revolution since the Model T.
How Driverless Cars Could End Traffic Jams, Road Rage
Autonomous cars will remake your world - mostly for the good, and sooner than you think.
Inventors Hall of Fame Adds Several New Members
Past honorees include the inventors of breakfast cereal and technology to manufacture shoes faster.
Elon Musk, Toyota and the Case for Open Patents
Could making intellectual property available to everyone spur technology and economic growth?