Science and engineering

IBM announced today that the U.S. Army’s Logistics Support Activity awarded IBM a contract to continue providing cloud services, software development and cognitive computing, constituting the technical infrastructure for one of the U.S. federal government’s biggest logistics systems.

Nordea expects the global economy to grow by 3.6 per cent this year, 3.7 per cent in 2018 and 3.6 per cent in 2019, in a new forecast released today.

Roche presents data from global phase III study showing significant clinical benefit of Alecensa (alectinib) in later-line advanced ALK-positive lung cancer

Scientists thought glia in the brain were just passive support cells. They may have a bigger role than once thought—contributing to the creation of neurons.

Santhera Announces Financial Results for the First Half-Year 2017 and Reports Commercial and Development Progress

Novartis landmark Phase III trial shows fingolimod significantly reduces relapses in children and adolescents with MS

NexGuard partners with Ericsson to launch Network ID watermarking

Market News alert Destiny Pharma PLC

Novartis announces CEO Joseph Jimenez to retire from Novartis in 2018. Vasant Narasimhan appointed CEO, effective February 1, 2018.

Sonova appoints Arnd Kaldowski as new CEO and successor of Lukas Braunschweiler

Observations and modeling suggest TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets may have held onto water, billions of years after their formation.

Study finds bacterial response to drugs varies in different environments.

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that it has developed the Cell Picking & Imaging System CELL HANDLERTM

The genetics of digestion haven't changed much in the past 420 million years, report researchers.