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Swiss teams rank highly in annual ‘hyperloop’ showdown

This content was published on Jul 22, 2019 Two Swiss entries in the Hyperloop contest – a competition to develop futuristic high-speed transport pods – have finished in the top three spots.

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What if our Moon did not exist?

This content was published on Jul 20, 2019 Ten reasons we should appreciate the presence of our magnificent Moon by astrophysics professor Ben Moore.

‘Is there life out there?’ This man’s in charge of trying to find out

This content was published on Jul 19, 2019 Fifty years after the moon landing, what's next for NASA? The man at the head of the space agency's Science Mission Directorate tells swissinfo.ch.

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Asian tiger mosquitoes descend on Zurich

This content was published on Jul 16, 2019 Asian tiger mosquitoes, which can carry harmful diseases like the Zika virus, have reached the Swiss city of Zurich.

3D microscope offers window to cell behaviour

This content was published on Jul 15, 2019 Nanolive, a spin-off company from Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), says its microscope can zoom in to individual organelles to a resolution of less than 200 nanometres. One nanometre is one billionth of a metre. More importantly, the microscope’s rotational scanning constructs 3D holographic images that display organelles in colour. This does away with…

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When Zurich becomes like Milan, London like Barcelona

This content was published on Jul 13, 2019 Scientists from the ETH Zurich warn that one in five of the world’s major cities will face unprecedented climate conditions in 30 years' time.

Tons of plastic released into environment every year

This content was published on Jul 12, 2019 More than 5,000 tons of plastic get into the environment in Switzerland a year, a study has found, with soil more affected than water.

What technology could help humans live on the Moon?

This content was published on Jul 12, 2019 To mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, 20 students were tasked with coming up with prototypes that could help humans live there.

New dinosaur species discovered in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 11, 2019 An early example of a therapod – bipedal and carnivorous – dinosaur uncovered in Switzerland belongs to a previously unknown genus and species.

Computer games ‘improve attention span’

This content was published on Jul 8, 2019 A Swiss neuroscientist has won a CHF1 million ($1 million) research prize for finding that computer games actually improve concentration.

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