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Sensors track rock slide risk at Alps’ longest glacier

This content was published on Jul 15, 2017 There are fears of a major landslide could happen above the Aletsch glacier. Extra sensors have been installed.

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The science of safety

This content was published on Jul 13, 2017 A Geneva scientist believes his data show that aluminium salts in deodorants may be dangerous. But health officials say those fears are overblown.

Solving tech problems with a Swiss degree and an American mindset

This content was published on Jul 9, 2017 Thirty-one-year-old Kevin Mader brought the American entrepreneurial spirit to his studies in Switzerland.

How plants communicate with each other

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017

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Doubly charmed particle found at Geneva atom smasher

This content was published on Jul 6, 2017 Scientists at CERN have discovered a doubly charming new subatomic particle.

Advantage: humans, but for how long?

This content was published on Jun 30, 2017 Architects, robotics researchers, material scientists and digital fabrication specialists at ETH Zurich are putting new digital building technologies into practice.

The 77-centimetre-long footprints belonged to the newly-named Jurabrontes curtedulensis.

Tracks of T-Rex lookalike found in Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 27, 2017 The 77-centimetre-long footprints were discovered at a site on the Courtedoux plateau near the Trans-Jura motorway by a team of palaeontologists from Barcelona and Denver universities, along with the Natural History Museum of Basel. The tracks are among the biggest in the world and belong to a three-toed theropod dinosaur of the Late Jurassic period,…

A cow eats grass in a pasture during the sunset in the Jura Mountains on 29 September 2016

Swiss dairy farmers must adapt to climate change

This content was published on Jun 24, 2017 As temperatures climb and growing seasons change, milk producers must cooperate to improve their grassland management practices.

Explore 150 years of global warming data in Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 23, 2017 Global warming naturally comes to mind as a topic for reflection while Switzerland swelters in a Europe-wide heatwave.

Swiss supercomputer third fastest in the world

This content was published on Jun 19, 2017 The Swiss supercomputer “Piz Daint”, based in Lugano, has been named as the third most powerful in the world behind two Chinese frontrunners.

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