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Sarco suicide capsule hopes to enter Switzerland
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A 3D-printed capsule destined for use in assisted suicide hopes to operate in Switzerland, according to Exit International.
Midwife invents a moving mattress to help in childbirth
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Inspired by a real-life emergency, Anna von Siebenthal's childbirth mattress will soon be produced by Europe’s largest hospital bed manufacturer.
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Scientific curiosity has to begin with wonder. For the entire history of humankind, we have looked up at the night sky in wonder.
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The head of the Swiss federal body for agriculture research has expressed frustration at the government’s plan to extend the moratorium on GM plants.
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I don’t think I’m the only one feeling beset on all sides by negative news right now. That's why I've chosen four uplifting science stories.
How ‘men as default humans’ threatens to undermine precision medicine
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Humans have developed advanced technologies like artificial intelligence but failed to account for sex differences when training them.
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Some of the new innovations have to be tasted to be believed. Like the chicken substitute being produced by the young team behind Planted AG in Zurich, a spin-off of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Before I met co-founders Pascal Bieri and Lukas Böni, I popped into a Zurich café to try their product.…
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Swiss scientists and drug companies are playing an important role in the global effort to develop treatments or a vaccine for the virus.
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Best-selling author of The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, Susan Jane Gilman, shares a scoop of the sweet treat with Clare O'Dea.
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A nomadic life has shaped the world view of author Jason Donald. He tells Clare O’Dea about the ‘undeserved privilege’ that has inspired his novels.
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After more than a decade as a journalist in Switzerland, Clare O’Dea explains what motivated her to write a new book on the country.
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The ragged paupers who first came to Guglera in the middle of the 19th century had a long walk up the driveway to get to the big house. So great was their need, they came before the building was even finished. The four-storey orphanage and school stood for more than a century, as generations came…
