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Citizens weigh in on the final frontier

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 About 100 people came together at Lucerne’s Transport Museum to exchange ideas on where space travel should head in the coming years and decades. The debate was the brainchild of Jan Woerner, the new director of the ESA. He felt that everyday citizens are the ones who benefit from space exploration through satellites that provide…

Rosetta comet mission ends with a bang

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 Swiss scientists are among the anxious observers of the Rosetta spacecraft’s “controlled descent” on Friday to the surface of the comet Chury.

Mountain near collapse on Europe’s biggest glacier

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 At 30km long, the Aletsch glacier is the largest in the Alps. It has shrunk significantly over the past decades as a result of global warming. In some places, where the glacier used to support the surrounding mountains, the ice has almost completely disappeared. This greatly increases the risk of rockslides. Now geologists have discovered…

Snow falls later and melts earlier

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 The WSL institute for Snow and Avalanche Research and the University of Neuchâtel looked at information from 11 MeteoSwiss weather monitoring devices in different alpine regions of the country, and made an analysis of the data from 1970 up until 2015. They found that the covering of snow now comes on average 12 days later…

Citizen science: Not a scientist? Not a problem

This content was published on Sep 27, 2016 When you open politics to the public, you get direct democracy. But what happens when you open science to the public?

Pesticides: a necessary evil for farmers?

This content was published on Sep 22, 2016

Good news from the beehive

This content was published on Sep 16, 2016

Transport ministry refutes Gotthard wind resistance claims

This content was published on Sep 9, 2016 “Test trips show that passenger trains travel at the planned speeds of 200km/hour (125mph) and that the planned times can be adhered to,” the transport office said in a statement after the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper reported wind resistance problems on September 4. The newspaper had reported that a physical phenomenon apparently overlooked by engineers would…

ETH Zurich remains top university in continental Europe

This content was published on Sep 6, 2016 ETHZ is the highest-ranked university in continental Europe – four British universities came in the top ten – in the annual rankingsExternal link, published by London-based education company Quacquarelli Symonds on Tuesday. Other Swiss institutions among the 916 universities from 81 countries are the universities of Zurich (ranked 80), Geneva (95), Lausanne (138), Basel (141),…

Comet robot Philae found intact but defunct

This content was published on Sep 5, 2016 Swiss scientists have been involved in the European Space Agency (ESA) project to examine a comet and gather information on its structure. Philae landed in November 2014, but lost contact with the orbiting Rosetta probe that dropped it on the comet. “It was very important to find Philae before the mission ended, to understand the…

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