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Brian Grossman’s fund bought $96m of shares in doomed startup

China projected to emit 31% of global emissions this year, says carbon group

Well-educated and culturally rich employees will quit jobs if work from home not option

Reducing sodium helps address high blood pressure, which affects most over-45s

Research showed immigration does not always cut pay for native-born workers

David Card awarded half of prize, other half shared by Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens

Consider letting your child text with a best friend on a shared family device to start

My Career Path: English literature grad Dr Maurice J Casey received a Fulbright student award to study at Stanford

Islamabad fears takeover will spark flood of refugees and rouse extremist groups in region

Trinity climbs to 146th, but four colleges slip down Times Higher Education league table

Wearable technology may make exercising easier or help patients who struggle to walk

Smoky California air may have caused 7,000 preterm births, Stanford study finds

Huffington’s wellbeing start-up Thrive Global is opening up an operation in Dublin city

Foods like yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha lead to less inflammation

Apple acknowledges it had handled communications around the issue poorly

App luring newbies into stocks and cryptos valued at up to $40bn ahead of flotation

Study opens door to similar gene-cutting strategies to cure a range of genetic diseases

Several Silicon Valley companies are aiming to make flying as easy as calling for a taxi

The perception that 2020 was unprecedented is inaccurate, says Niall Ferguson

Already well-managed businesses were better at adapting to remote working in 2020

Endless stream of video calls can cause exhaustion, dissonance and fatigue

Just Women’s Sports hopes to level the playing field for female sports content

The ethics of editing humans are fraught and complex, argues Henry Greely

Net Results: Ireland’s attractiveness to US multinationals is built on far more than tax

The company is yet to determine the number of shares to be offered and the price range

Karlin Lillington: New study suggests simple ways to help you get through virtual meetings

Start-up Nua Surgical’s SteriCision, a retractor device, tackles many major unmet needs

Reductions due to coronavirus pandemic will prove temporary, concludes global stocktake

As energy storage becomes a greater part of our lives, R&D is set to keep making strides

Biodiversity loss and climate change coupled with inaction ‘threatens survival of all species’

German car giant plans to switch to Solid State EV batteries by 2024

New vaccines should protect you from Covid. It’s unclear if they stop you spreading the virus

You may not be able to speed up the election results or a Covid vaccine, but you have the power to take care of yourself

There are fears Nipah virus – which has a mortality rate of between 40 and 100% – could become more transmissible

Visitors ‘can see that Borat’s homeland is nicer than they may have heard’

Former FF minister among doctors who say Ireland is ‘lurching from crisis to crisis’

Planet Business: Miss flying? Thai Airways has an almost perfect solution

Bob Wilson had to wake fellow winner Paul Milgrom when news broke in the middle of the night

Stanford professors responsible for new formats used widely around the world

The pandemic has stolen a basic ingredient from everyday working life: humour