CEO shakeup at Vow amid restructure at lab-grown meat startup
Blackbird-backed startup Vow has cut jobs and gotten a new CEO as it looks to use its cell-culture technology to expand beyond the development of lab-grown meats.
Sustainability
Inside the mission to restore Namibia’s lost migration
Supported by Rolex through the Perpetual Planet Initiative, the Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area is working to reverse a century of wildlife decline across one of Africa’s most degraded landscapes.
Titouan Bernicot is racing to outpace the decline of the world’s coral reefs
Backed by Rolex through the Perpetual Planet Initiative, French Polynesian conservationist Titouan Bernicot has turned a teenage obsession with coral into one of the most closely watched reef restoration operations in the Pacific.
Sylvia Earle has seen the ocean collapse. Here’s what still gives her hope
At 90, and after more than 100 expeditions, marine biologist and oceanographer Sylvia Earle is still asking the same question. “What or who is down there?”
Rolex marks 50 years of its awards program with five new Laureates for 2026
Fifty years after its launch, the Rolex Awards for Enterprise continue to fund projects still in progress, with the 2026 Laureates tackling challenges spanning biodiversity loss, disease prevention and ecosystem protection.
Ex-top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid
Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that move power to the grid more efficiently.
‘River guardians’: Inside the Great Spine of Africa’s push to protect the source
Steve Boyes and his team, backed by the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, have travelled tens of thousands of kilometres by river chasing one simple question: where does a river begin? His latest focus is the Zambezi’s “source of life” wetlands in Angola.
Inside Elon Musk’s year of blunders, bombs and payday bonanzas
From Trump frenemyship, the DOGE debacle, unmet self-driving car promises, chainsaws and “Mechahitler” to a $1 trillion pay deal, 2025 was the billionaire’s most chaotic and lucrative year.
The researcher rebuilding human movement after spinal cord injury
Courtine has spent years building a system that reroutes movement around a broken spine. Now, inside a Swiss research hospital, he is applying it to patients with complete spinal fractures to see how much of walking can be rebuilt through direct neural stimulation.