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Technology that its parent company says will sequence a human genome in just 15 minutes opened its first data run to scrutiny today. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, based in Oxford, UK, revealed the initial results from its GridION system at the Advances...
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The Swiss — and more power to them — are taking their noted national characteristics of tidiness and cleanliness to space. In a development long overdue among space-faring nations, the Swiss are building what is being called a "janitor satellite" to...
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Finnish Jarkko Nieminen walks off the playing field after being defeated by Swiss Roger Federer at the end of their match on the fifth day of the ATP Tennis Tournament at the Ahoy Stadium in Rotterdam, on February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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Things are fine between us, you know. I have no hard feelings towards him
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Outer space is about to get its first janitor satellite. Engineers from the Swiss Space Center at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne announced this week that they soon will begin work on CleanSpace One, a prototype for a line of brand-new...
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Last year Italian police found $20bn worth of fake bonds during a routine search of the vehicles at a rest stop. In 2009 two men carrying Japanese passports were arrested while trying to leave Italy for Switzerland carrying $134bn in fake bonds. In the...
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The top-seeded former Rotterdam champion Federer topped Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 7-6 (7-2) in an hour-and-a-half. The Swiss icon struck eight aces and held his serve throughout on Day 5. The 16-time major champion Federer was the Rotterdam...
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Swiss Roger Federer celebrates after winning 7-5, 7-6 (7/2) his ATP Rotterdam Open quarter finals tennis match against Finland Jarkko Nieminen on February 17, 2012 in Rotterdam. View Photo »
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Misys Connect is the first fully open source health information exchange platform offered anywhere in the world ... The product is ideal, especially for larger hospital systems that run their own IHE XDS Affinity Domain but may be used by small and medium-sized Swiss hospitals as well. Thanks to a close...
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Authorities in Switzerland have confiscated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. bonds at the request of Italian prosecutors, authorities said Friday. This undated photo provided by Carabinieri Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 shows a trunk confiscated in Switzerland.
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Roger Federer marched into the semi-finals of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam today by claiming his 13th consecutive career victory over luckless Finn Jarkko Nieminen. The world number 46 put up a good fight but let his chances slip at crucial...
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Switzerland (German: die Schweiz, French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera and Romansh: Svizra), officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked alpine country in Central Europe. The country, which is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, was historically a... Full Article
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