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Seymourpowell’s Caroline Jacob on the power of biotech and how it can transform materials.

Biofabrication has been selling the promise of a harmless, resilient, and versatile alternative to traditional materials for nearly a decade, and yet the industry has never truly scaled. Efforts are often stymied by complex, labor-intensive, and expensive processes.   

Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.

This story was originally published by Grist and Public Health Watch.

The 100% affordable apartment building is the first in the city to be permitted under a state law designed to streamline new construction.

Until recently, a strip of land near a transit station in San Francisco was an underused parking lot. Now it’s home to more than 100 affordable apartments.

The three most common forms of toxic leadership create self-defeating cultures that stifle innovation, undermine trust, and destroy engagement.

Interest in Apple’s spatial computer has apparently fallen off a cliff too. Here’s why, and why Apple’s loss isn’t Meta’s gain

In high-rises around the world, gashes and slashes are the hot new architectural trend.

Featuring dramatic cuts in the facade or portions of floor plates sliced away—a new kind of architectural detail is reshaping the exterior of high-rise towers on a global scale. Distinctive gashes are splitting the surface of new buildings with a kind of surgical intent.

Leaders have an opportunity to demonstrate the difference between responding and reacting to uncertainty when things go wrong.

As leaders, we receive the most attention when things are going wrong, whether we know it or not. Yet when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan, our teams need certainty more than ever. Certainty can be found in many forms such as clarity, direction, comfort, safety, and security.  

Not quite wide-leg, not quite baggy—the jean of the moment has an unconventional silhouette.

For more than a decade, the skinny jean reigned supreme.

With a new race underway to create the next teaching chatbot, IBM’s abandoned 5-year education push offers lessons about AI’s limits.

In the annals of artificial intelligence, Feb. 16, 2011, was a watershed moment.

The top winners are invited to mingle with professional developers at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this June.

Software engineers will soon descend on Cupertino to hear about potential updates to Apple’s operating systems and developer tools, get advice from company experts, and mingle with others working to build apps for Apple’s platforms.