Innovation

The paint, invented by scientists at Stanford University, works by regulating a building's heat—keeping it cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.

Quality and safety must be engineered into the very fibers of groundbreaking innovation to achieve sustainable results over the long haul.

Congress can take a small but significant step toward ensuring our patent system continues to serve as an engine for American innovation and economic growth.

Bad policies and inflamed rhetoric won't help us deal with climate change. Addressing climate change requires lowering American energy costs.

Aside from being of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Franklin was a notable inventor and an early advocate for paper money.

For decades, the U.S. has allowed countries like China to capture the value of its domestic innovations.

The creation of innovation hubs in healthcare to rapidly prototype emerging tech in areas like wearables and telemedicine can not only save healthcare systems billions of dollars, but improve outcomes for all involved.

What can policy learn from the lessons of business philosophy?

While failure does come with significant downsides, actively encouraging employees to take risks can be worthwhile.

There's so much more to this term, from pivoting and risk-taking to just forging your own path, regardless of what others may think or tell you.

Newsweek's second annual Auto Disruptors Awards featured presentations from industry leaders and a panel discussion on where automotive manufacturing is headed.

AI will evolve way beyond the simple examples you see today.

Artificial intelligence conjures up justified and irrational fears such as job losses, machine takeovers and insurmountable skill gaps.

Creativity fosters innovation, but no one has great ideas every single time. So the number one way to encourage creativity is to ensure your team knows it's okay to fail.

If you're a startup looking to disrupt an industry, you likely have the benefit of low overhead and a "nothing to lose" attitude.

Lawmakers are trying to use the lame-duck session to cram in wasteful pet projects before Republicans take the majority

You may be so busy getting ready for the holidays that you believe you don't have time to schedule to innovate.

Innovation invariably comes with risks — expenses, instability or, potentially, success — but innovation makes the difference between stagnation and growth.

A hotbed for innovation

The sensible Japanese brand had a disruptive streak in its DNA from Day One.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke to Newsweek about how technology will change the future of farming and sustainable food production in the U.S.

Sometimes innovation comes from unexpected places. Jennifer Thompson, executive director of the New Jersey and Delaware chapters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and a member of the Newsweek Expert Forum, explains why c-suite leaders are increasingly incorporating social workers into their decision-making process.

London startup Polymateria has developed a low-cost solution that helps make conventional plastics biodegrade.

The future of solar energy can shed light on what impacts energy use today.

There are three important ingredients to innovation: willingness to experiment, measuring progress and carving out time for your team. 

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."

Enzymes isolated from wax-worm saliva have been shown to break down the most-commonly used form of plastic, polyethylene.

Taken together, I believe the advantages of EVs explode out to buyers on just about everything.

A new bill in California has legalized human composting. "We can't just keep putting bodies in the ground," said one advocate to Newsweek.

Researchers have found that long-tailed macaques in Indonesia use stone tools to masturbate, in a rare occurrence of tool use for sexual pleasure.