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Women of the Helsinki Movement

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Why is the Swiss flag square?

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How semiconductors are made

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Truth or tale: is Switzerland injecting harmful chemicals into the sky?

Figure it out: in Switzerland, migration isn’t just inbound

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Why is Switzerland’s national anthem not widely known among its citizens?

What exactly was signed in Helsinki in August 1975?

Stabilising permafrost in the Swiss Alps

Permafrost thawing: protecting endangered mountain infrastructure in the Swiss Alps

The death penalty around the world in 90 seconds

Is it a good idea to let AI vote?

Extreme heat and drought are Switzerland’s top climate change risks

Locarno City Archives, Rodolfo Huber, Locarno Pact centenary

How Locarno became the ‘city of peace’

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Truth or tale: is Swiss chocolate tainted by child labour?

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What you didn’t know about psychiatry and Switzerland

How to vote from abroad as a Swiss citizen

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Switzerland Explained

How drug prices are negotiated in Switzerland and beyond

The circular economy: a new way of making and using things

The reality of climate change in Switzerland

How Switzerland is trying to combat climate change

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Commodity trading in Switzerland, explained

Switzerland’s four languages

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What is it like to work in Switzerland?

Why is Switzerland so expensive?

How the Swiss asylum system works

How to become Swiss

Science and Tech

How semiconductors are made

Permafrost thawing: protecting endangered mountain infrastructure in the Swiss Alps

Extreme heat and drought are Switzerland’s top climate change risks

The Swiss mega-project to transport freight underground

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Truth or tale: does Switzerland send its unusable old cars to Africa?

Lost stem cells: the scandal of a Swiss cord blood bank

What World Glacier Day is all about

What happened to the critically endangered apron fish.

Switzerland and France team up to save the apron fish

What is permafrost and why is it a threat?

A pipe from lake Constance, clogged up with quagga mussels.

Can the spread of invasive quagga mussels be stopped in Switzerland?

Discovering ancient microorganisms inside Swiss glaciers

Sara Pisano talks to students about how AI could change their futures.

Is AI making young people rethink their careers?

Lift off! Swiss students build next-gen reusable rockets

Fish stocks hit by warming lakes. Climate change seems partly to blame.

Fish species are disappearing as Swiss lakes warm up

The first major project under the federal government’s “Solar Express” scheme is being built near the village of Sedrun in southeast Switzerland.

Construction starts on first large-scale solar park in Swiss Alps

What’s inside a comet?

Demolished buildings offer new home for CO2 emissions

Pioneering research using dioxin-eating bacteria could help clean up Lausanne

Pioneering research using dioxin-eating bacteria could help clean up Swiss city

Fighting soil contamination with bacteria in Lausanne.

Pioneering research using dioxin-eating bacteria could help clean up Swiss city

The small robot aiming to explore volcanic tunnels on the moon

On The Record

Elena Servettaz talks to Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenko

He can’t go home: a Belarusian author on lost roots and life in Switzerland

Patrick Chappatte: ‘The path for satire has been getting narrower’

Elena Servettaz (l) and Ekaterina Glikman (r)

Ekaterina Glikman: ‘It pains me deeply to see what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia’

Oleg Radzinsky and Elena Servettaz in Lucerne

Oleg Radzinsky: ‘I see nothing wrong with separatism’

Breaking protocol: Jojo Mayer and the machine

Mikhail Shishkin: ‘It pains me to be a Russian writer’

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Sergei Pugachev: Swiss banks help Putin’s people avoid sanctions

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Child victims in Ukraine – can the trauma be cured?

Echoes from the Indian Ocean: Swiss stories of the 2004 tsunami

Swiss true crimes: the child serial killer Werner Ferrari (part 2/2)

Swiss true crimes: the child serial killer Werner Ferrari (part 1/2)

Swiss true crimes: the Wohlen double parricide

Swiss true crimes: the car park murderer who shocked Switzerland

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The Lauberhorn downhill – the mountain of fate

2nd Life – Off to Tokyo

Rebels in the snow: a history of Swiss snowboarding

Rita Christen – Switzerland’s pioneering mountain guide

Climbing the iconic Eiger mountain in Switzerland

Swiss emigrants – tearful farewells

Swiss emigrants – teething problems

Swiss emigrants – new challenges

Swiss emigrants – and then came Covid

Swiss emigrants – new plans

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Swiss emigrants – overcoming obstacles

The Swiss Miracle: Cleanliness

The Swiss Miracle: Love

Up in smoke: what happens to disposable e-cigarettes?

Günther Tschanun – the silent neighbour

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