Forscher der Universität Zürich haben das revolutionäre Konzept einer Impfung für Gehirnkrankheiten auf Alzheimer angewandt. Der Versuch mit Mäusen ist ihnen gelungen.
Kaum jemand kennt das Observatorium auf dem Jungfraujoch so gut wie Erwin Flückiger. Seine Faszination für den Ort der Extreme ist ungebrochen.
Viele Angestellte klagen über mangelnde Wertschätzung an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Diese scheint mit dem Strukturwandel abhanden gekommen zu sein. Denn heute wird mit anderen Massstäben gemessen.
Das Schweizer Flugzeug Solar Impuls ist auf dem Weg nach Quarzazate in Marokko. Kurz nach 8 Uhr hat die Maschine in der Hauptstadt Rabat abgehoben. Für den Flug stehen dem Piloten zwei Routen zur Auswahl.
Jetzt ist es amtlich: Das Einatmen von Dieselabgasen ist gefährlicher als bisher angenommen. Zu viel davon führt zu Lungenkrebs – das teilte die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO heute mit.
Der Zürcher Alt-Stadtpräsident Elmar Ledergerber gehörte in den Siebzigerjahren zu den profiliertesten Wachstumskritikern. Aktuelle Konzepte wie die Ökosteuern seien damals schon entworfen worden.
Wissenschaftler haben einen riesigen, blühenden Planktonteppich unter dem arktischen Eis entdeckt. Der Klimawandel verstärkt dessen Wachstum noch zusätzlich.
Richard Nixon habe lange vor dem Watergate-Skandal zu illegalen Methoden gegriffen. Das sagen die Reporter Carl Bernstein und Bob Woodward, 40 Jahre nachdem sie die Affäre enthüllten.
In den USA gab es jüngst eine Häufung von Kannibalismusfällen. Eine Droge – umgangssprachlich Bath Salt genannt – wird damit in Verbindung gebracht. Zu Recht?
China treibt seine Pläne zu einer eigenen Weltraumstation voran: Mitte Juni soll sich ein bemanntes Raumschiff auf den Weg zum Testmodul Tiangong-1 ins All machen. An Bord könnte erstmals eine Frau sein.
Das Drama der griechischen Staats- und Schuldenkrise will kein Ende nehmen. Ein Grund ist das gespaltene Verhältnis der Griechinnen und Griechen zu ihrem Staat. Es hat Geschichte.
Bei Kindern mit einer Leseschwäche arbeitet das Gehirn anders. Jetzt untersuchen Forscher an der Universität Zürich, ob sich dies auch auf das Lernen einer Fremdsprache auswirkt.
Eine Reihe neuer Produkte mit spezieller Haferkleie soll vor Herzerkrankungen schützen. Für die Zuger Firma Creanutrition bedeutet das den Durchbruch in der Schweiz.
Das Universum hat keine neue Tempogrenze: Das Kernforschungszentrum Cern hat mit neuen Experimenten seinen früheren Befund widerlegt. Neutrinos sind nicht schneller als das Licht.
Die US Firma Myriad ist wegen ihrer patentierten DNA-Tests für Brustkrebs umstritten – nun expandiert sie nach Europa und nimmt neue Gene ins Visier.
Zum ersten Mal wurde in der Schweiz bei einem mobilen Drogentest in einer Ecstasy-Tablette der gefährliche Inhaltsstoff PMMA nachgewiesen. Der Konsum einer solchen Pille kann tödlich enden.
Forscher haben einen Weg gefunden, wie ein Embryo im Mutterleib ohne komplizierten Eingriff auf Genschäden untersucht werden kann. Diese Entdeckung könnte die Gesellschaft verändern – und wirft ethische Fragen auf.
Nach 15 Monaten auf See ist an der US-Küste in Oregon ein gigantisches Stück Schrott angeschwemmt worden. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Teil eines Hafens, der 2011 vom Tsunami in Japan mitgerissen wurde.
Die Welt macht wenige Fortschritte, was den Umweltschutz anbelangt. Dies bestätigt ein Bericht des UNO-Umweltprogramms. Von 90 Vorhaben seien nur vier umgesetzt worden. Bei 40 gebe es eine Verbesserung.
Der Schweizer Bertrand Piccard ist mit seiner Solar Impulse gestern Nacht in Rabat gelandet. Seine Frau ist überglücklich und spricht von der Erfüllung eines «Traums».
With the help of patient human instructors, a robot has learned to talk like a human infant, learning the names of simple shapes and colors.
Abraham David Sofaer, a former New York federal judge, recently was giving a paper at the National Academy of Sciences about deterring cyber-attacks when he learned of the Megaupload prosecution. Troubling him more than his global cybersecurity paper was learning that the government had seized the files of 66.6 million customers as part of its criminal copyright prosecution against the site's top officers, and was refusing to give any of the data back to its owners.
A military-funded group of MIT researchers have already designed the brain-implant portion of a neurally mediated prosthetic limb. Now they've come up with the fuel cells that'll power the system ... by squeezing energy out of the patient's own spinal fluid.
The MacBook Pro is Apple's top-of-the-line notebook powerhouse. With a trimmer profile, super-high-resolution display, and drool-worthy internal specs, the company's latest entrant to the Pro line marks itself as a force to be reckoned with. Here are our hands-on impressions.
Data gathered from two stars using the Kepler telescope has been transformed into a reggae riff for New Jersey band Echo Movement.
Last month the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) picked winners of its annual CODiE awards from the main categories of business software, digital content and education. Nearing their 50th anniversary the CODiE?s are the industry?s only peer-reviewed awards program where live demos and trail access are mandatory. This year, 119 finalists were selected from ...
Invented in 1912, the small-scale, obsessive sport of slot car racing has seen its ups and downs over the last hundred years. The hobby, in which motorized model cars speed around a slotted track, enjoyed its height of popularity after World War II, then sputtered in the '70s with the introduction of and other videogames. The public arcades where hobbyists could race have largely been wiped off the map, but an estimated three million slot car enthusiasts still rev their tiny engines in basements and garages.
At 12:00 p.m. EDT today a small rocket made by Orbital Sciences launched a NASA telescope into orbit. While there is nothing unusual about a rocket launching into orbit, the location of today's lift-off was a bit different than the typical launch pad. The relatively short, 55-foot-long Pegasus rocket was launched from a spot almost eight miles above the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
USA Network is bringing back its legal drama , that offers a very real $50,000 bonus to two lucky players.
Io is one of the hottest and most active moons in the solar system, but its volcanoes aren't losing as much heat as predicted. Volcanologist and Eruptions blogger Erik Klemetti reports on a new study of the Jovian volcanic moon.
Video: Wired's best and worst of Electronic Entertainment Expo, now with slightly less silliness. Slightly.
In just the last 12 months, SSDs have turned the corner, reports Wired Enterprise's Cade Metz. They're appearing in high-profile laptops such as Google's Chromebooks and Apple?s brand-new MacBook Pros -- and in the data center, many companies are realizing SSDs make economic sense even with their higher price tags.Artur Bergman, the founder of Fastly, ...
We like to think of the drone war as something far away, fought in the deserts of Yemen or the mountains of Afghanistan. But we now know it's closer than we thought. There are 64 drone bases on American soil. That includes 12 locations housing Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles, which can be armed.
With the launch of NASA's NuSTAR mission, which will explore high-energy x-rays and black holes, we take a look at the agency's successful history with small, low-cost satellites dedicated to a few important scientific goals.
First NASA said it was grounding its work on OpenStack, the open source cloud rival to Amazon it co-founded. And now it seems the space agency is all-in on Amazon, with NASA's CIO recently touting (and Amazon echoing) that using Amazon Web Services could save the agency $1 million a year.And if breakups were not ...
Testing is hard; let's go shopping -- for a DNS wildcard server that is. Xip.io is a new, free, service from 37Signals designed to make it easier to test your website on any device.
The inevitable has happened. On Wednesday, AMD announced that it has indeed signed a deal to license ARM's chip architecture. But the pact isn't quite the revolution many were expecting. That revolution may still come, but for the moment, AMD says it will merely use ARM technology to built new security tools into the chips it's building for tablets and other devices.
Russia's MI-17 helicopters excel at two things lately. One is killing Syrian civilians. The other is helping the Afghan Air Force. The Obama administration says it's not fine with the first while it pays for the second, and is hoping you don't notice the glaring contradiction.
In Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel series , imps are small, demonical creatures that power the world's gadgets. But in our world, Imps will connect all of our electronic devices to the internet.
Question: What do Linux and stem cell research have in common? Answer: They?re both considered ?life-enhancing technical innovations? by the Technology Acadamy Finland, a foundation that is awarding a prestigious award called the Millennnium Technology Prize in Helsinki today.
When you download a big file, how does your computer calculate the progress and remaining time? Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain uses math to root out progress bar deception.
An excerpt from Parmy Olson's book , chronicling the attack on Gawker, which dared Anonymous to attack it. A self-described 16-year-old hacker named Kayla took the bait.
Inside a data center in San Jose, California, Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction. In other words, Dropbox is indicative of the web's leading services.
Between 1995 and 2000, a slew of companies were either acquired or secured investment without turning a profit. That led to the big dot-com bust of 2001, and the subsequent auction of thousands of Herman Miller chairs. Here's the story of nine offenders -- told via their TV spots
Darpa, the Pentagon's premier research arm and the brains behind GPS' initial development in the 1950s, is desperate to do away with the system. Today, the agency announced a new program to create accurate, versatile -- and perhaps most important -- jam-proof navigational systems.
Parmy Olson's book delves into the heart of Antisec as a way to tell the tale of the Anonymous collective. But it turns out, that's entirely the wrong way to go about telling the story.
Soviet geologists in eastern Siberia discover a massive deposit of diamond in what will become the Mir mine, the second largest excavated pit in the world.
Now that Apple is ditching Google as the back end for the iOS Maps app, we're hoping that they'll give topography the Jony Ive treatment. While we applaud the super-hot flyover mode, we wonder if they've gone far enough. As the examples above show, it's worth remembering that map tiles can look like anything.
takes a rare photo tour of Detroit that focuses on people and nuance rather than crumbling buildings.
's story, which will be tightly focused on a single main character over the course of her life, Cage wanted someone of exceptional talent.