Articles
Explanatory articles on Geneva’s international rules and science, each with its sources.
Which was the first exoplanet? 1992, 1995 and the 2019 Nobel Prize
Ask which planet outside the Solar System was found first and you can get two answers – both correct. It depends on what kind of star you count.
ISO, IEC, ITU: who writes the world’s technical standards?
Bank cards, screw threads and phone networks all depend on international standards, and three of the organisations that coordinate them are based in Geneva.
The web was born at CERN: 1989 and 1993
The World Wide Web began as a tool for physicists. Two dates explain how it became everyone’s.