MUNICH — "To be above it all" has become Magdalena Gründl’s purpose in life. By this, she doesn't mean to sound egotistical. The-25 year-old research assistant working at Harvard wants to ...
-Analysis- In 2007, the department of biotechnology in India began drafting a controversial legislative bill to collect and store the DNA information of Indian citizens in a national databank ...
A Bogotá family invented a system to drain rainwater from any rooftop and store it in an "...
PALO ALTO — While his high-school classmates were blowing their money on Chipotle burritos and concert tickets, Truman Hale was saving up for a Tesla. In March of last year, after years of penny ...
Large technology companies need to be stopped before they crush our cherished freedoms, argues a ...
Our ability to forget helps us to learn, make decisions ... and remember a face. This seeming par...
Designers are starting to take global warming into account when planning buildings, particularly ...
GENEVA — A high stack of papers dominates the desk of this president of a Swiss soccer club. "These are resumes from players. We get 50 of them every week, together with video cassettes of their ...
Technology is indeed eliminating jobs, but mostly routine tasks that young people spurn. It is al...
SPONSORED CONTENT The IT ecosystem in Africa is thriving. Microsoft alone now has offices in more than 14 African countries, and has announced that it will open its first data centers on the ...
The Antarctic, one of the last, unspoiled parts of the natural world, will, like the Amazon, face...
The online media star, who sits on the board of the ride-sharing app company, says Uber doesn'...
A new study found that dozens of São Paulo women infected with Zika gave birth to babies w...
Exploitation of so much data by artificial intelligence could lead to the automatic evaluation of...
Germany was once considered the world's pharmacy. Venerable companies such as Bayer and H&oum...
-Analysis- LA PAZ — As it stands now, half of Latin America's power is generated by hydroelectricity, an energy source that is also of vital importance worldwide, producing more electricity ...
PARIS — On the left-hand side of the blue screen, court decisions appear at the speed of light. Some words are highlighted. Simultaneously, on the right-hand side, a map of France takes shape. ...
CAGLIARI — Danilo Spiga isn’t your everyday chef. He is a trained engineer and all the dishes he cooks are crafted by 3D printers. None of the diners were sick after Spiga's meal at a ...
GENEVA — At the Geneva University Hospitals, pneumologist Jean-Paul Janssens receives patients suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This rare disease is caused by the degeneration ...
Wild parakeet populations are expanding in many European cities, where they enjoy the relative wa...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is betting on AR, which he sees as potentially as groundbreaking as the smartp...
LAUSANNE — A Swiss-based charity, Race For Water Foundation, wants to turn the PlanetSolar catamaran into a floating display of emerging hydrogen technologies. "That's unprecedented on a boat," ...
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