<p>Innovation Hub brings the thinkers, researchers, authors, and visionaries who are crafting our future. The show challenges conventional wisdom and showcases creativity in everything from health to the economy.</p>

Innovation Hub 

Caitlin Faulds

Syringes of SARS CoV-2 Vaccine for COVID-19 produced by SinoVac are displayed during a media tour of its factory in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. A Chinese health official said Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, that the country's annual production capacity f

Pandemic set to widen global inequality

Nurse Ivonne Castellanos prepares a shot of flu vaccine as residents line up to get flu shots from a team of nurses who had been making a scheduled vaccination house call at an adjacent home, in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Amid the ongoing corona

Economics

Global economic inequalities could grow worse with a vaccine for COVID-19

Icons for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest are displayed on a window, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Science & Technology

How social media has changed society

The empty work area at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, in seen Thursday, March 19, 2020. Most employees are not working because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Capital Area Food Bank will continue to serve those who are food insecure, but have 

Jobs

Do offices have a future?

A shopper wears mask and gloves to protect against coronavirus, as he shops at a grocery store in Mount Prospect, Ill., Wednesday, May 13, 2020. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, grocery prices reach 50 year high amid pandemic.

Food

The behind-the-shelves story of American supermarkets

Ukraine

Wagner mercenary group recruits Africans held in Russian prisons

White Sand beach on Boracay Island, in the Philippines. 

Business, Economics and Jobs

The return of Chinese tourists restores hope in the Philippines' tourism industry

Politics

India’s Rahul Gandhi supporters finish 5-month rally and march against increasingly nationalist state

Screenshot from Bahjat official lyric YouTube video "Hometown Smile."

Music

Libyan pop star Bahjat beat the odds. Now he wants to popularize ‘A-pop.’

Teachers representing the observatory of knowledge, protest against budget cuts for public universities outside the Ministry of Education, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. 

Trust the process: Part I

A member of auction house staff poses for a picture with a 19-carat pink diamond at Christie's auction house, in London, Oct. 18, 2017. 

Belgium faces pressure to support sanctions on Russian diamonds

US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet smiles ahead of a meeting in Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. 

America’s top priority is to help Ukraine ‘defend itself’ as a sovereign nation, Blinken adviser says

Disease

A spike in ringworm cases in Spain leads to a surprising culprit: the barbershop

The Inca temple of Sacsayhuamán gets only a handful of visitors per day now, as tourists cancel their trips to Cusco amid protests taking place in Peru.

Protest

Protests across Peru are keeping tourists away from the country’s top travel destinations

The new reception center at a cruise terminal on the Brooklyn waterfront will house 1,000 migrant men until May 1, when cruise ships will be back.

Migration

New York City struggles to accommodate new migrants

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