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This article explores the most intimate space in a home — the bed. We spend about a third of our lives there, so the importance of a place for sleep...

Human history is not only a chronicle of wars and scientific breakthroughs. It is also a grand gastronomic thriller in which the way calories were obtained dictated the conditions...

In a world of oversaturated marketing, creating a new brand from scratch comes with astronomical costs, while the risk of failure remains critically high. This is why venture funds...

Sometimes, strategy is only half the story. The rise of some companies was helped just as much by being at the epicenter of unpredictable events, such as black swans, unexpected...

The kitchen of the future shifts from mass production to personalized nutrition. Food preparation and consumption are synchronized with a fitness band and a medical chip. Resource-intensive traditional agriculture gives...

In Thailand, the market for cat products has reached an enormous size — the equivalent of $11.8 billion. The government no longer treats it as a mere hobby of citizens;...

For a long time, archaeology was a matter of chance and exhausting blind digs. But now, the rules of the game have changed — excavations are not aimed at finding...

In the modern world, stress levels often rank among the main threats to social stability. Urban planners increasingly design color environments based on proven brain responses to specific spectra. Color...

Alongside the "hype" startups burning billions of investor capital in pursuit of reach, a wave of low‑profile unicorns is growing. Profit‑first models operate in the B2B space, solving specialised logistics...

Modern people are fed up with the abundance of gadgets and appreciate the right to silence, the ability to pause, and not to be "always on." Psychologists note a paradigm...