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Swiss scientists identify bowstring used by Ötzi the Iceman

This content was published on Dec 21, 2019 Swiss scientists have established that a cord found next to the body of Neolithic hunter Ötzi the Iceman was a bowstring.

This is what the changing Alps sound like

This content was published on Dec 20, 2019 Alpine winds collide in what one researcher calls a strange dance. It's one of many sounds he's capturing to better understand the Swiss mountains.

Gathering sounds at Jungfraujoch

This content was published on Dec 20, 2019

‘Switzerland has reached a threshold’

This content was published on Dec 20, 2019

Scientists create ‘chameleon rainbow’ chocolate

This content was published on Dec 19, 2019 The shimmering effect has been perfected without the use of artificial additives by researchers at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Changing the surface structure of the chocolate with a “surface imprint” makes it shimmer with what scientists call “structural colour”. “The process is similar…

How Switzerland is dismantling its first nuclear power station

This content was published on Dec 19, 2019 Switzerland is set to switch off its first nuclear power station. But pressing the “off” button is just the start of an estimated 15-year process.

The Soyuz rocket launching from French Guiana on December 18.

Swiss-developed exoplanet telescope launched into space

This content was published on Dec 18, 2019 A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the CHEOPS (Characterising ExOPlanets Satellite) telescope blasted off from Kourou, French Guiana.

Rare species group together to survive in nature

This content was published on Dec 17, 2019 Rare plant and animal species cluster together to help each other, according to new Swiss and Swedish research.

Recordings at the research station

This content was published on Dec 17, 2019

Recordings of glacial wind

This content was published on Dec 17, 2019

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