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Science-fiction-like devices that could detect viruses or cancer in blood or sniff out traces of chemical weapons could be a reality thanks to a new discovery with sensors.

The Standard & Poor's (S&P) agency reported on Friday that it had raised its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Croatia to 'BB+' from 'BB'.

Alstom has been awarded four contracts totalling around €330 million by Trenitalia, the Italian national train operator, for the supply of 54 Coradia Stream regional trains.

The world has seen a surge in electric vehicle use in recent years, but that plug-in push has not sparked as brightly in Russia.

Energy bills for companies across Greece will be reduced by new energy efficiency investment backed by a new EUR 100 million initiative by the EIB and Piraeus Bank.

Emirates Airline has been named ‘Airline of the Year’ at the 2018 Air Transport Awards. Emirates won the prestigious accolade based the evaluation from a jury comprised of executives and experts from different sectors within the aviation industry.

Helium "was always considered to be unreactive—the element that doesn't react with anything." Not so, say researchers.

The Fed continued to project three rate hikes this year but forecasts a steeper path of hikes in 2019 and 2020.

As in all previous acquisitions Mail.Ru Group will fully consolidate ESforce and will disclose all results on a pro-forma basis going forward to allow like-for-like comparison.

Today 23 March, Statoil (OSE:STL, NYSE: STO) is presenting its Annual Report and Form 20-F for the year ended 2017, and its sustainability report.

Shifts in rainfall and temperature are changing the look of forests in the eastern United States. But changes in the way they soak up carbon are even more significant.

For people who obsessively wash their hands, Dr. Jamie Feusner would suggest imagining a worst-case scenario to learn to tolerate the feelings they experience.

A new paper argues that a popular narrative—science is broken—is an overgeneralization and poses risks to public trust.