Geneva Science & Technology News

So the University of Pittsburgh physics and astronomy professor hopped a train to Geneva, where he witnessed an important milestone in the development of the Large Hadron Collider, which he's worked on for years. "There is a huge amount of...

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border made history Monday, smashing two proton beams traveling at near-light speed into each other. The LHC, also known as the big bang machine, is the largest machine on...

The machine, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid recreate conditions after the Big Bang, was launched with great fanfare last year. But, just nine days after the launch, it suffered a spectacular failure from...

Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal...

A new tariff regime proposed by the telecom regulator has created a flutter, raising hopes of a cut in your monthly mobile phone bill...Experts are not sure if the new rules, which involve measuring calls by the second as a...

A giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but blew itself up in the process will be back in business on Friday. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern , the nuclear research organisation...

Scientists hope the $7.3 billion machine will shed light on the event that many scientists believe gave birth to the universe around 14 billion years ago, but the project has suffered a series of setbacks. The latest saw a "bit...

Monaco on Wednesday formally proposed a ban in international trade in Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna which face a rapid population decline. The proposal was submitted to the secretariat of the so-called Washington Convention or the Convention on International Trade...

GENEVA (Reuters) - China is experiencing an epidemic of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that the country virtually wiped out in the 1960s, a senior public health official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. In the WHO Bulletin, a journal...