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By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - A group of people walks slowly in silence past a stand-alone thick wall made of coal with large quartz crystals sticking out of it. People pause to touch the crystals and stand close to the 40-meter-long structure, some with eyes closed. The Crystal Wall of Crying , an interactive installation by world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, was erected in Ukraines capital to commemorate Jews killed in one of the biggest massacres of the Holo...

The debate on decolonising aid is pushing Switzerland to question how it is approaching development work.

By Niklas Pollard, Ludwig Burger and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work that helps understand complex physical systems such as Earths changing climate. In a decision hailed by the U.N. weather agency as a sign of a consensus forming around man-made global warming, one half of the 10-million Swedish crown ($1.15 million) prize goes in equal parts to Man...

By Niklas Pollard, Ludwig Burger and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work that helps understand complex physical systems such as Earths changing climate. In a decision hailed by the U.N. weather agency as a sign of a consensus forming around man-made global warming, one half of the 10-million Swedish crown ($1.15 million) prize goes in equal parts to Man...

By Johan Ahlander and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new pain-killers. Their work, carried out independently, has helped show how humans convert the physical impact from heat or touch into nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world around us, the Nobel Assembly at Swe...

Swiss health minister Alain Berset and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have called for reliable data at the opening of the World Data Forum.

Swiss health minister Alain Berset and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have called for reliable data at the opening of the World Data Forum.

Nanotechnology is set to become the future of personalised medicine for treating diseases such as cancer.

In a not-so-distant future, Switzerland has become the El Dorado of anti-aging nanotechnology. After an operation, one man will never be the same…

By Yesim Dikmen and Mehmet Emin Caliskan SEDDULBAHIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkeys newest park is an underwater museum of fourteen shipwrecks that lie beneath the waves of the Dardanelles Strait, a glimpse into the fierce battles between Ottoman and Allied forces in World War I. Turkish photographer Savas Karakas was one of the first to board a motor boat and then dive to the seabed grave when the park opened on Saturday. There, he says, he was able to reconnect with his grandfather who fought in ...