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International Geneva set the challenge of harnessing data for the betterment of democracy.

A new study by Zurich researchers says measures taken at the start of the pandemic managed to slow the course of the virus.

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Critically ill COVID-19 cases in China are down 72% from a peak early this month while daily deaths among COVID-19 patients in hospitals have dropped 79% from their peak, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The figures, published on the centres website, come after a prominent government scientist said over the weekend that 80% of Chinas 1.4 billion population had already been infected, making the possibility of a big COVID-19 rebound over the nex...

Designed to protect Swiss military sites, surveillance cameras could be providing a weak spot for hackers to exploit.

Sometimes the highs and lows of WEF are best captured by numbers. Here are some that stood out to SWI swissinfo.ch this week.

The Swiss mountain town of Davos is not just the home of the WEF – it has long been a centre of cutting-edge scientific innovation.

A rare meteorite weighing 7.6 kg has been found in Antarctica by a researcher from the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich.

The Swiss winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics Karl Alex Müller has died at the age of 95.

Switzerland has escaped with a glancing blow from the FTX fallout – if data from the industry is anything to go by.

Around 30 European ministers of culture have founded the Davos Baukultur Alliance at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The alliance aims to promote exchange and cooperation between the private sector, civil society and politics for sustainable building culture.