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Swiss crypto company Smart Valor has recently raised CHF3 million from investors as part of its plans for a public listing.

Quantum computing is a focus of a summit in Geneva encouraging dialogue between diplomats and scientists to “safeguard our collective welfare”.

Swiss crypto company Smart Valor has recently raised CHF3 million from investors as part of its plans for a public listing.

SANAA (Reuters) - Hotels in Sanaa are cashing in on demand for domestic tourism in war-torn Yemen by building small cabin rooms, known as tairamana, on their roofs offering relaxation and views of the ancient city. Around a dozen of these spaces now perch on the flat roof of the Pearl of Hadda hotel in Sanaa. The rooms are decked out with wall-to-wall soft seating, drapes and low tables for snacks. At night, they glow with neon lights. Men like Abdul Muttalib Hashem, 27, hang out together and pu...

Alexandre Fasel, Switzerlands special representative for science diplomacy, explains why scientists and diplomats need to work together.

By Johan Ahlander, Gwladys Fouche and Julie Steenhuysen GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - All eight winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in medicine (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/julius-patapoutian-win-2021-nobel-prize-medicine-2021-10-04), chemistry (https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/list-macmillan-win-2021-nobel-prize-chemistry-2021-10-06), physics (https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/manabe-hasselmann-parisi-win-2021-nobel-prize-physics-2021-10-05) and li...

By Vassilis Triandafyllou and Angeliki Koutantou LIMNI, Greece (Reuters) - In a scorched landscape on the Greek island of Evia, crews of workers chop burnt pine trees, all thats left from devastating summer wildfires, to set up wooden flood barriers. Walking on a thick carpet of ash and with the smell of smoke still lingering, they are racing against time to bolster defences before the autumn rains which threaten to flood coastal villages. The vegetation which would normally absorb the rainfall ...

Swiss virologists lean towards animal-to-human transmission, but some say the theory of a leak from a Wuhan lab should be taken more seriously.  

Swiss virologists lean towards animal-to-human transmission, but some say the theory of a leak from a Wuhan lab should be taken more seriously.  

By Niklas Pollard, Ludwig Burger and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing new tools for building molecules that have helped make new drugs and are more environmentally friendly. Their work on asymmetric organocatalysis, which the award-giving body described as a new and ingenious tool for molecule building , has also helped in the development of plastics, perfumes and flavours....