Measles Deaths Worldwide Fall by 74 Percent
Health officials say aggressive efforts to vaccinate young children against measles have resulted in a 74 percent global decline in the number of deaths due to the illness. Experts say the biggest...
View ArticleIncredible Hotel Made From Salvaged Wine Casks
Ever fallen asleep alongside a good glass of French wine?
View ArticleCherry-flavored malaria drug launched for kids
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is launching a new cherry-flavored malaria drug that it says children will be less likely to spit out.
View ArticleTurkey-Armenia breakthrough welcomed
The US and the European Commission yesterday hailed a breakthrough between Turkey and Armenia that could end one of the most intractable disputes left from the collapse of the Soviet Union, but also...
View ArticleWHO unites vaccine manufactures to fight flu epidemic
The World Health Organization’s Director General Dr. Margaret Chan met Tuesday with over 30 vaccine manufacturers from developing and developed countries at Geneva to fight flu epidemic.
View ArticleNew publication shows index insurance has potential to help manage climate...
Climate has always presented a challenge to farmers, herders, fishermen and others whose livelihoods are closely linked to their environment, particularly those in poor areas of the world.
View ArticleConstructive Start To Iran Talks, Says UK
The British government has welcomed the encouraging start in the resumption of six-party talks with Iran in Geneva over its nuclear programme, which it hopes will continue in the spirit of goodwill and...
View ArticleUN health agency set to receive 50 million H1N1 vaccines for developing...
A giant pharmaceutical company is slated to donate 50 million doses of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the United Nations public health arm, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today.
View ArticleVisionWorks Award 2009: Big Prizes for Vertical Gardens, Bacteria Packaging...
Congrats to Manuel Dreesmann who received the first prize at this year's VisionWorks Award -- Cargopacks 2020.
View ArticleNew evidence that dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress
The "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research.
View ArticleRe-start for ‘Big Bang’ machine
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months.
View ArticleLarge Hadron Collider progress delights researchers
Researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they are delighted with the progress made since the machine restarted on Friday.
View ArticleGates Foundation donates $10 billion for vaccines in developing countries
Bill and Melinda Gates announced today in Davos, Switzerland, that their foundation would donate $10 billion over the next 10 years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines to the world's poorest...
View ArticleCern LHC sees high-energy success
Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has produced record-breaking high-energy particle collisions.
View ArticleSwiss women outnumber men in government
A historic vote in the Swiss parliament today has formed an executive consisting of more female ministers than male, propelling the country to the forefront of sexual equality in politics just four...
View ArticleLarge Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a ‘mini-Big Bang’
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a 'mini-Big Bang' by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
View ArticleHow Carbon Credits are Saving Lives in Kenya
Vestargaard Frandsen is a Swiss for-profit company that's in business to save lives in the global south. Its products include Lifestraw, a portable water filter and Permanet, a long-lasting bednet to...
View ArticleScientists recruit aerial drones to combat illegal logging
A new aerial surveillance system to protect forests and endangered species in remote parts of the world is being pioneered by a pair of ecologists in Switzerland. The researchers have designed and...
View ArticleLong hunt detects possible ‘God particle’
Physicists in Europe claim they have discovered a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson, crucial to theories of the universe.
View ArticleSwiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
Switzerland’s Parliament has approved a motion banning single-use plastic shopping bags. Both houses of the Swiss Parliament Thursday voted to forbid the distribution of the plastic bags. The next step...
View Article
