Page 55 - Sci Amp Tech News Today

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on super computers and encrypted communication. The awards were for given experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science , the award-giving body said on Tuesday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...

Swiss electricity company boss warns of an impending power crunch this winter, raising the spectre of rationing.

By Natalie Grover, Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) -Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors. Paabo, director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, won the prize for discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, the Award committee said. Paabo ...

By Natalie Grover, Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) -Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors. Paabo, director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, won the prize for discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, the Award committee said. Paabo ...

Swiss geothermal project, designed to generate electricity for 900 homes and heat thermal baths, has been suspended.

Switzerlands Nant de Drance pumped-storage power station, which produces electricity and store power, is inaugurated.

Switzerland scored ahead of the US and Sweden, said the World Intellectual Property Organization on Thursday.

Switzerland’s greenhouse gas footprint decreased by 10% between 2019 and 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Between 2000 and 2019 it fell by only 2%.

No hacker managed to penetrate the Swiss Post’s e-voting system during a security test, according to Swiss Post. The system withstood 60,000 attacks.

Authorities are to outsource certain data storage to cloud servers managed by Alibaba, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle.