The Sharing Economy -- a marketplace where people rent or share their time, talent or property -- has long been seductive to entrepreneurs. With an insider’s understanding of those who succeed through invention and innovation, Forbes covers the savvy platforms connecting drivers with riders, rooms with renters and what it takes to transform peer-to-peer business opportunities beyond just apps. Editor Biz Carson and her team of contributors cover the audacious startups as well as the publicly traded companies who make millions from this new and growing opportunity, which is expected to hit $335 billion by 2025. Readers also gain insight into those major corporations taking big hits from the uprising of the Sharing Economy, and startups that failed to launch anything but an idea. From evolving government regulation to the opportunities and pitfalls possible if these sharing networks don’t reach scale, Forbes fills in the blanks on this new world of collaborative consumption.

The editorial mission is to enlighten the Forbes audience about science, in terms of both pure science news and the intersection of science and business, whether that’s research-oriented startups or interesting science coming from the R&D facilities of major universities. Trending Topics: • Space: Forbes readers are interested in general astronomy topics, but we also cover the intersection of space and commerce, particular rocket startups like SpaceX, Blue Origin or Vector and the growing satellite startup market. • Robots and AI: There’s a lot happening in the world of robotics and artificial intelligence, both in the lab and as applied to business. • Environment and Weather: Stories about major weather events and the environment are topics that always do well at Forbes. Looking ahead, we expect to be also focusing on the startups moving into green areas as well as the burgeoning market in private weather data collection, from satellites to on the ground sensors to apps. Interesting Contributors: • Dr. Marshall Shepherd: Dr. Shepherd is the director of the University of Georgia’s atmospheric sciences programs and is also the host of Weather Channel’s talk show ‘Weather Geeks.’ • Dr. Kristina Killgrove: Dr. Killgrove is a bioarchaeologist who focuses on the Roman Empire, and a professor at the University of West Florida and a research scholar at the Ronin Institute. Her public outreach at Forbes has helped to earn her awards from the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association. • Dr. Ethan Siegel: Dr. Siegel is an astrophysicist and science communicator. He’s the author of several science books, a former columnist at NASA, and teaches at Lewis and Clark College.