Jens Eisert believed in quantum computers even before the media had taken note of this kind of ultrafast computers.

The UK, one of Europe’s core countries, is slated to leave the European Union, probably at the end of March. And Donald Trump, an American President, of all people, has cast doubt on the reason for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to exist. He is also risking a trade war with the country’s European partners. The tone between countries that have been partners for decades is increasingly fraught.

When Professor Achim Gruber makes the first cut with his scalpel on the table in one of the tiled necropsy labs, he often reveals a long story of animal suffering.