Policymakers today face a different environment for information and communications
technology (ICT) than the one for which they designed policies. ICT technologies are far more …

Digitization—the mass adoption of connected digital services by consumers, enterprises,
and governments—has emerged in recent years as a key economic driver that accelerates …

The mobile channel offers an exciting opportunity for marketers—one that most have yet to
fully embrace. One avenue to pursue is the creation of a branded mobile offering, in which the …

As they grow up, this highly connected generation will live “online” most of their waking hours,
comfortably participate in social networks with several hundred or more contacts, generate …

Colin is a 20-year-old computer science student living in London with two other students in
the year 2020. He enjoys backpacking, sports, music, and gaming. He has a primary digital …

… Roman Friedrich is a partner and managing director in BCG’s Dusseldorf office. You can
reach him at friedrich. roman@bcg.com. …

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic
outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic …

In recent years, two-photon calcium imaging has become a standard tool to probe the
function of neural circuits and to study computations in neuronal populations. However, the …

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a tool now increasingly proposed to monitor the
SARS-CoV-2 burden in populations without the need for individual mass testing. It is …

… for late Roman traditions and features that did not occur in the late Roman cemeteries in …
of the 5 th century in the former Roman province of Pannonia Valeria. Reflecting the period of …