Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler have said the plan will result in €3.7 billion in savings, allowing them to work on creating more sustainable vehicles. The new company will be a 50-50 merger of the two....
We make a lot of decisions every day. Some are difficult, others we don’t even notice, and all of them influence us. Ever heard of nudging? My phone’s alarm rings, vibrating (terribly) on the parquet...
Boris Johnson will command an absolute majority in the House of Commons, giving him the votes to push through his Brexit divorce deal. But this is just a first step, and the UK might still...
As global temperatures rise, warm-weather crops like apples and pears are feeling the heat. While the climate shows no signs of cooling down, farmers in Spain are looking for ways to adapt — starting in...
Scientists have developed a new way for measuring the personalities of animals. So why should we humans care? Because understanding personality traits is key for more individualized therapies in psychiatry. For the experiment, a research team...
Climate change poses a major threat to the health of the world’s children and may shape the future of a whole generation if global temperatures are not kept well below 2°C, new research shows. Pediatricians...
The ECB’s new president has urged European countries to invest and innovate as concerns of an economic slowdown intensify. She warned that export growth could no longer be relied upon to boost growth. The eurozone...
Saudi Arabia has formally launched the initial public offering of stock in state-owned oil giant Aramco. The long-awaited IPO is part of plans to move the kingdom away from oil dependency. Saudi Aramco, the national...
Performing an unimaginable number of operations in the shortest time possible, quantum computers inspire the imagination. Their task: to crack complicated equations. But how they do it is less simple. It marks a huge breakthrough in...
In typical Elon Musk style, he almost casually announced plans to build the European Tesla factory on the outskirts of Berlin. For German carmakers the plans have come just at the right time, says DW’s...
Modern cloth nappies are a convenient alternative to disposables. But in trying to solve one environmental problem, are they contributing to another? Samantha Early aired her dirty laundry in public to find some answers. The...
Saxony experienced a sharp decline in its centuries-old textile industry in the years following German reunification in 1990. Yet the sector is anything but dead in this Eastern German state as Hardy Graupner reports. As...