https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Directors of the Human Brain Project (HBP), the Swiss-run €1.2 billion research programme that aims to simulate the human brain, have responded to criticism from participating scientists who have threatened to boycott the project. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140711/brain-project-directors-hit-back-at-critics Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:24:00 +0200 brain-project-directors-hit-back-at-critics At least 280 scientists are threatening to boycott the Human Brain Project (HBP), a Geneva-based research project budgeted at more than €1 billion, that aims to use supercomputers to simulate the human brain. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140708/scientists-threaten-boycott-of-brain-project Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:12:23 +0200 scientists-threaten-boycott-of-brain-project