Massive use of antibiotics in animal farming and to treat common ailments is helping create incur...
PARIS — At the Geneva University Hospitals, pneumologist Jean-Paul Janssens receives patients suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This rare disease is caused by the ...
We might soon see our mechanic put on augmented reality glasses that will show him step by step how to repair our car. But the same glasses will also record all his slightest movements and ...
-OpEd- I've just finished reading the manifesto Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the future of humanity. I've laughed a lot. But afterwards, when I reached the end, a serious question took root in my ...
PARIS — Researchers are on the hunt for the perfect bee. Today, pesticides, mites, viruses and other parasites decimate tens of millions of colonies of pollinators on the planet. ...
Big Brother, if and when he arrives, will start out looking small. Take that mundane office badge or key card you use to pass security before entering your office. Rather than having to carry ...
BERLIN — Is our intelligence determined by our genes? That's the question driving genetic and psychological research ever since these scientific disciplines were born. But to this day, the ...
Foreign scientists working in the U.S. are seeking job prospects in Switzerland as they contempla...
For more than a decade, South Korea has been a pioneer in the use of robots to aid teaching. Now,...
PARIS — Here's some terrible news for millions of people around the world who need pacemakers, insulin pumps or electrodes that relieve chronic pain or symptoms of Parkinson's disease: These ...
Nearly all of the data sent between continents goes through fiber optic cables that reside at the...
SAO PAULO — The hatchet has been dug up. No surprise there. The truce brought about in the ride-hailing war by Didi Chuxing's acquisition of Uber's Chinese operation in August was only ever ...
Several decades of reflection and study have led neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux to stake out...
PARIS — The smartphone of Eudes, a web project manager, switches automatically from 3G to WiFi as soon as he's near his office. It also downloads relevant newspaper articles just before he ...
Family pictures, porn, German armed forces' internal data – openly accessible on the intern...
The promise of eternal life gets a boost from the latest technologies, but there are troubling qu...
A guiding principle of modern democracy holds that a system of checks and balances helps prevent any single person or faction from making radical changes to the existing order. That the wheels of ...
GENEVA — Beloved French singer Edith Piaf probably wasn't aware of it but what made her see ...
BERLIN – Organized crime syndicates have long smuggled drugs and cigarettes. Their distribution strategy is so effective that police around the world have a hard time tracing ...
How the future of education, and work, look to an Argentine university rector.
PARIS — How can we surf the web without using Google, Amazon or Facebook? French group Framasoft, which promotes the use of open-source software, offers a ...
Swedish hospitals are a model for a more natural, less clinical approach to caring for newborn an...
