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Lausanne scientists create 3D-printed elephant robot

Elephant robot designed using a bio-inspired 3D printing method

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 Researchers at the EPFL in Lausanne have managed to create a robot elephant using a 3D-printable lattice structure.

How can we avoid AI being monopolised by powerful countries and companies?

AI has the potential to solve many of the world’s problems. But the wealthiest countries and tech firms may seek to hoard these benefits.

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The destructive force of debris flows better understood

Swiss research explains dynamics of destructive debris flows

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 For the study, a team led by ETH Zurich analysed a June 2022 debris flow in Valais with unprecedented precision.

A nuclear power plant in Switzerland shown between dark clouds and bright rapeseed fields.

Risks remain as Switzerland weighs return to nuclear power

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 Switzerland reconsiders nuclear power amid climate goals, but experts warn of hidden risks that show the complexities of clean energy today.

The Gösgen nuclear power plant in canton Solothurn is one of three still in operation in Switzerland.

Why climate change and wars are reviving interest in nuclear energy

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 Is the Fukushima effect over? Here’s why there is renewed interest around the atom and which nations want to build new nuclear power plants.

Switzerland is Europe’s most innovative country, EU study finds

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 In the European Commission’s annual ranking, the Swiss score dropped slightly in 2025, but not enough to cost it top spot.

Agreement reached on Belpmoos solar plant

Planned solar park at Bern airport scaled back after talks

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 The ground-mounted plant at Belpmoos Airport will be smaller than originally planned, the parties involved said on Tuesday.

In recent years ski resorts at lower altitudes have had to re-think their tourism offers due to the lack of snow.

Climate change puts Swiss tourism to the test

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 Climate change threatens tourism in Switzerland – and is partly caused by it. How can the industry become more sustainable?

A crack in a ski lift structure in the Swiss Alps caused by thawing permafrost.

New hope for cable cars and mountain huts threatened by permafrost collapse

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 A novel scientific solution being developed in Switzerland aims to stabilise mountain infrastructure endangered by climate change.

Stabilising permafrost in the Swiss Alps

Permafrost thawing: protecting endangered mountain infrastructure in the Swiss Alps

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 Elizaveta Sharaborova, a Swiss-based researcher, explains how her solar-powered prototype can stabilise thawing permafrost threatening Alpine infrastructure.

Gösgen SO nuclear power plant is off the grid for an indefinite period

Swiss nuclear plant is off the grid for an indefinite period

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 The operator must provide evidence of fallback in case of a possible overload in the feedwater pipework system.

Romandie thanks to warm weather points to olive trees, could overtake Ticino

Swiss olive cultivation to get a boost thanks to warm weather

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 More and more farmers in French-speaking Switzerland see climate change as an opportunity for olive cultivation.

FOT wants night trains to Sweden from April 2026

Night trains from Switzerland to Sweden planned for 2026

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 A Basel-Copenhagen-Malmö night train service could be operational as early as April 2026.

Swiss researchers are active in designing next generation semiconductors

Swiss chip industry fuelled by research, not cash windfalls

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 Many countries are pouring billions into their semiconductor industries, but Swiss funds focus on research.

Spanish flu: virus genome deciphered a century later

Swiss researchers sequence genome of 1918 Spanish flu virus

This content was published on Jul 14, 2025 Researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich (UZH) have sequenced the genome of the Spanish flu virus, thanks to a sample taken from an 18-year-old Swiss boy who died in the city on the Limmat in 1918, when the pandemic spread around the world.

FOEN Director warns of increasing climate risks in Switzerland

Environment director warns of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 13, 2025 The director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has warned of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland in an interview with SonntagsBlick on Sunday.

Switzerland's highest campsite has to close

Switzerland’s highest campsite closes due to mudslide risks

This content was published on Jul 13, 2025 Valais authorities have ordered the closure of Switzerland’s highest campsite in Arolla due to the risks of mudslides.

Study: Rhine could become up to 4.2 degrees warmer by 2100

Rhine could warm by 4°C by 2100, scientists warn

This content was published on Jul 12, 2025 The water temperature of the Rhine River could rise by up to 4.2° degrees Celsius by the end of the century due to the warming planet, scientists warn.

The Neurath lignite-fired power station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Climate misinformation is ‘muddying waters’ and delaying urgent action, experts warn

This content was published on Jul 11, 2025 The fossil fuel industry and right-wing populists are coordinating misinformation campaigns to obstruct efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to a new review of climate misinformation.