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Minister turns up heat ahead of Paris climate talks

This content was published on Sep 7, 2015 “We really want a text right now,” Leuthard said at a press conference on Monday after a three-day preparatory meeting for the UN’s 21st climate conference. “The ministers need a working document in order to approve or reject ideas and to pursue some lines of work over others,” she said. “We’ve put a bit of…

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A treasure trove run by robots

This content was published on Sep 2, 2015

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Inside Swiss-US energy talks

This content was published on Aug 19, 2015 swissinfo.ch is blogging from the Swiss-US Innovation Days 2015 where 300 experts in energy, policy and business are gathering in Zurich.

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Stemming the academic brain drain

This content was published on Aug 18, 2015 Immunologist Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann says she has two families: her two small children and her lab team. She has made a success of academia, at an age when many of her peers have left it all together.

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Freedom and responsibility in university research

This content was published on Aug 16, 2015 Ezekiel Emanuel is drinking tea at a table in a small library in Basel. A former health advisor for the Obama administration, he has spent almost eight weeks as a guest professor at the University of Basel’s Institute for Biomedical Ethics. Back home he heads the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the…

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The pioneers who made science a national concern

This content was published on Aug 7, 2015 The Swiss Academy of Science has a 200-year legacy - both in Switzerland and the scientific world - and it all started with some very odd rocks.

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Using nature to fight pests

This content was published on Aug 3, 2015 Biovision operates in five African countries with a goal of spreading information on sustainable and ecological agriculture. Biovision was founded in 1998 by Swiss entomologist Hans Rudolf Herren. In the 1980’s he had managed to avert a famine in Africa by eradicating the mealybug, a crop pest that threatened cassava plants. Herren discovered a non-chemical…

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Comet was probably part of oldest meteorites

This content was published on Jul 29, 2015 Swiss scientists believe that the comet Chury is related to the oldest-known meteorites in our solar system.

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Mers virus antibody discovered

This content was published on Jul 28, 2015 The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) has killed approximately 500 people since it was identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, before spreading to neighbouring countries, and more recently to the Far East. In a studyExternal link published in the scientific journal PNAS, researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, which is part of…

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