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Is creative destruction on the decline?

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The displacement of the old with the new, a capitalist ideal popularised as “creative destruction” by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in the 1940s, actually has eastern roots. In Hinduism, creation and destruction are considered two […]

Science

creative solutions for time-starved researchers

Illustrations: Richard L. Tillotson Art and science have a long and intertwined history. During his five-year research trip on HMS BeagleCharles Darwin drew his own finches; and Marianne North, his contemporary, was both a prolific painter and a botanist who set up a dedicated gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. Their artistic […]

Science

how cash-strapped research teams are getting creative

Credit: OlekStock/Getty In 2022, Carolina Quezada was on the hunt for a new piece of equipment. To synthesize the metallic nanoparticles she works with, she needed a dry bath incubator to heat the starting materials. She checked online, but held off on making a purchase because she was worried about the cost. In the end, […]