Enrique Dans, Contributor

A recent Harvard study conclusively links deaths from COVID-19 to previous exposure to high levels of air pollution. The pandemic represents a huge opportunity to rethink cities around the needs of people rather than cars. As lockdown is lifted, will w…

We are about to enter a phase in which, using the pandemic as a justification, it will be normal for data as personal as our geolocation, our state of health or proximity to other people to be collected and processed.

Labor, the environment, the economy, education and healthcare are just five examples of things that should change after this pandemic. Let me put it like this: are we really sure that we want to go ‘back to normal’ after the pandemic? Did we like that …

A system that allows us to know who should still remain at home, who has had the disease and developed immunity and who is still at risk of contracting it could be of great potential use in order to keep the economy up and running.

We’re going to have to do more if we’re going to bring the coronavirus under control, and leveraging technology to do so makes perfect sense. But we must accept this as something exceptional, as something to help resolve a crisis, without losing our ha…

The coronavirus pandemic and the economic paralysis caused by the measures to contain it is drastically reducing emissions, but this won’t last long. What would happen if we responded to the climate emergency in the same way we are dealing with the cor…

The expansion of the coronavirus not only means growing numbers of infected people, restrictions on mobility, cancellations of events and a downturn in the global economy: it is also making it clear that research is best carried out transparently rathe…

PillPack, the little-known startup Amazon acquired in June 2018, is now fully integrated into the e-commerce giant, already operating in the United States, and has recently registered Amazon Pharmacy it as a trademark in a number of countries. Disrupti…

The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday ordered the country’s government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 1990 levels, in what is already the toughest and most stringent ruling handed down to a government to take immediate action on the climate…

Google is accessing the health data of millions of Americans. Studies like Google’s are extremely interesting, but should be subjected to rigid controls and absolute transparency, and perhaps, even take place in a completely open source environment wit…