Science

Fritz Kahn, Berlin, c. 1914: Taschen's book contains over 350 of the author's works

Fritz Kahn: Taschen’s portrait of the author and scientist

Taschen’s book about Fritz Kahn is bringing one of the most inventive thinkers of the 20th century into the public’s consciousness

Swiss Nanoscience Institute: Teaching technology

The Swiss Nanoscience Institute’s communications team have become known as ‘ambassadors for nanoscience’, schooling new generations in the technology of the future

UN launches review of criticised climate panel

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced that a group of national science academies would review UN climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged in January its report had exaggerated the pace of Himalayan glaciers melting, and in February […]

Europeans spend billions on fake medicines

Western Europeans spend an estimated 10.5bn euros ($14.3bn) a year on illicitly sourced medicines, many of them counterfeit, according to a Pfizer-sponsored survey. Germans and Italians buy the most prescription-only drugs without a prescription, either over the internet or on overseas trips, in nightclubs, in shops and via friends. Counterfeit medicines often contain the wrong […]

Jürgen Hambrecht

When Jürgen Hambrecht became chairman of BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, he took the helm of one of the world’s most important companies

Andrew Witty

GlaxoSmithKline have been pioneers of the pharmaceutical industry for more than twenty years now. What kind of person carries a beast like this?

Awards Supplement 2023

The European CEO awards 2023 have now been announced, presenting our pick of the CEOs, companies and campaigns leading their sectors.