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Cybathlon event combines innovation and competition

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 On Saturday, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich organised the world’s first Cybathlon Championship for Athletes with Disabilities.

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Cybathlon: when science meets sport

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 The world’s first Cybathlon Championship for Athletes with DisabilitiesExternal link was held on October 8 at the SWISS Arena in Kloten, canton Zurich. Organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, the Cybathlon welcomed 4,600 visitors, 400 contestants, and 66 teams from institutions all over the world. The goal of the Cybathlon is…

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WEF launches San Francisco tech policy centre

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 The office, called the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will have 50-60 people working on about ten different projects by the end of the next year, Murat Sonmez, a one-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur who will lead the effort, said in an interview. The goal is to develop policy approaches to address the novel issues…

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Solar Impulse team envisages solar drones

This content was published on Oct 10, 2016 The pilots of the Swiss Solar Impulse 2 are now working on the development of solar drones.

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Munching maggots solve waste problems

This content was published on Oct 7, 2016 Scientists from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Frick, canton Aargau, are working with colleagues in the Ghanaian capital Accra to develop innovative compost techniques using black soldier fly larvae, which feed on rotting organic material. “They can reduce most of just about any type of organic waste in a short space of…

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Switzerland gets its first hydrogen filling station

This content was published on Oct 6, 2016 EMPA announced on Thursday that they have installed the nation’s first hydrogen fuelling station for fuel cell cars at their research campus in Dübendorf.

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Nobel Prize winner given Swiss helping hand

This content was published on Oct 5, 2016 In 2011, EMPA provided the scanning tunnelling microscope that powered the world’s smallest electric car that measured a billionth of a metre. Feringa’s nanotechnology breakthroughs saw him awarded the Nobel Prize along with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Sir J Fraser Stoddart on Wednesday. The scanning tunnelling microscope was loaned from EMPA’s headquarters in Dübendorf, on the…

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Can science solve an 80-year-old Indian mystery?

This content was published on Oct 4, 2016 Face recognition technology has the potential to unravel the identity of an Indian woman on a precious Swiss watch.

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Crowdfunding, landfills and face recognition

This content was published on Oct 2, 2016 Here are some of the stories we’ll be following the week of October 3.

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