Vincent Fournier has the dream job of anyone who ever fantasized about being an astronaut (but shrinked away from the zero-G simulator): For the past decade he has traveled to space facilities around the globe to snap pictures of ...READ»
Plastic Logic's e-reader may yet live as an educational tool in Russia, just as Apple and Microsoft bid for millions of tablet PCs destined for Turkish schools. The e-education game is getting serious.READ»
Every northern country is making territorial claims to land being exposed under melting ice, creating a truly cold new Cold War near the North Pole.READ»
Understanding people through direct experience has become a forgotten part of American business. Here's how strangers can and should help shape brands.READ»
In this installment of the Butterfly Effect, climate change is creating incredible economic opportunity in the Arctic, leading to saber rattling from Canada and Russia. Whichever region benefits the most will have enormous geopolitical consequences.READ»
A new development outside of Moscow, powered by renewable energy, is being built to foster research. Intel, Nokia, Siemens, and Cisco may set up shop there. READ»
Ah, Pangea. The symbol of our united prehistory, the pot to our primordial soup. You could read about it in some drab old geography book or, better yet, come 2014, hop on over to Russia and see it in real life -- right down to the ...READ»
Yuri Gagarin is probably spinning in his grave faster than he ever spun in orbit: Russia's deputy prime-minister has denounced his nation's space agency for being "childish." Is it time for a U.S.-style commercial space industry in Russia?READ»
As the first decade of the new century ends and the second begins, it is easy to embrace a Declinist vision for the United States. A decrepit infrastructure, gaping inequality (one in five children live in poverty), bleeding ...READ»
Mikhail Prokhorov is spending $198.4 million on building and selling a gasoline and electric hybrid car in Russia, a country that hasn't exactly embraced sustainable energy initiatives.READ»
Yesterday, WikiLeaks detonated the usual veil of secrecy that shrouds diplomatic negotiations, by releasing 250,000 cables that detail everything from Saudi Arabia urging the U.S. to attack Iran, to U.S. diplomats being ordered to spy ...READ»
Russia announced it will be investing $2 billion in a program to capture some of the thousands of pieces of dangerous debris that threaten the future of space technology. How might it work?READ»
In “The $15 Trillion Treasure at the End of the World” Josh Hammer chronicles the Russian effort to control the market for Arctic natural resources. Russia’s efforts center around the Yamal Peninsula, a finger of land extending ...READ»
Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»
The workplace of your average Internet company is like, a totally fun, super-awesome, big-kid dorm room. Bean bags mandatory! Unless, of course, you’re talking about Russia, in which case it’s about as quixotic as Soviet public ...READ»
The Smolensk nuclear power plant produces 1/7th of the nuclear power in Russia,
contributing an average of 20 billion kilowatt hours of electricity
each year. It's rare to see the inside of these power plants.READ»
