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A Geneva-based foundation launched a tool mapping out scientific breakthroughs that could help decision makers and civil society prepare for them.

A Geneva-based foundation launched a tool mapping out scientific breakthroughs that could help decision makers and civil society prepare for them.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation on Wednesday proposed 26 experts to form its new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of novel pathogens, including several who served on its mission to Wuhan, China, to probe the source of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The statement named the 26 proposed members ahead of a two-week period of public consultation, including Marion Koopmans, Thea Fischer, Hung Nguyen and Chinese animal health expert Yang Yungui, who took part in the joint investi...

Kathrin Summermatter is one of 26 experts chosen to be part of a WHO panel on the origins of new pathogens.

Cryptocurrencies are being scrubbed up and made fit for consumption in Switzerland with sweeping legal reforms and regulatory oversight.

Cryptocurrencies are being scrubbed up and made fit for consumption in Switzerland with sweeping legal reforms and regulatory oversight.

By Simon Johnson and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering natural experiments to show real-world economic impacts in areas from minimum wage increases in the U.S. fast-food sector to migration from Castro-era Cuba. Unlike in medicine or other sciences, economists cannot conduct rigidly controlled clinical trials. Instead, natural experiments use real-life situations to study impacts...

The approval of dams and wind turbines should be simplified by putting an end to the flood of appeals.

The approval of dams and wind turbines should be simplified by putting an end to the flood of appeals.

An international team with representatives from Switzerland has won the three-year Subterranean Challenge robotics competition.