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EPFL employee suspended on suspicion of embezzling funds

This content was published on Jun 9, 2015 The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has launched an investigation into an alleged misappropriation of CHF218,000 ($235,517) from its prestigious Blue Brain Project.

Reintroducing vultures in Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 8, 2015 For three years in a row, members of the Bearded Vulture Foundation have taken young birds up the Hengliboden mountain in Melchsee-Frutt, Obwalden, watched over and fed them until they could fly. Bearded vultures were first reintroduced in Switzerland in 1991 in the Swiss National Park . New regions were subsequently added. It has been shown that 88%…

Solar Impulse to wait out bad weather in Japan

This content was published on Jun 1, 2015 A cold front has forced the Solar Impulse 2 plane to cool its wings in Japan before heading for Hawaii.

Eleven new chameleon species found in Madagascar

This content was published on May 26, 2015 A research team led by Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva and collaborators from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar have published their findings in the latest issue of the journal Molecular EcologyExternal link. The panther chameleon is known for its dramatic range of colours, but after analysing DNA samples from 324 individual reptiles,…

Climate, extreme weather top concerns at global weather congress

This content was published on May 25, 2015 Organisers of the congress, held by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) every four years, say it will focus on how to strengthen weather and climate services to meet the needs of a growing global population and to cope with climate variability and change, extreme weather and related shocks on all socio-economic sectors. “To ensure sustainable…

Swiss activists protest global agribusiness titans

This content was published on May 23, 2015 Demonstrations in two Swiss cities drew more than 2,000 activists in all on Saturday to voice concerns about the business practices of agrochemical corporations Monsanto and Syngenta.

Record-breaking particle collisions at CERN

This content was published on May 21, 2015 CERN researchers made scientific history yesterday when they used the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to run proton beam collisions at an energy level of 13 TeV (tera-electronvolts).

The Swiss science of investigating fraud

This content was published on May 20, 2015 The ETHZ case involves a biology professor who was anonymously accused in the online forum PubPeerExternal link of having manipulated images that accompanied articles he had co-written and published. According to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), which funded some of the research, around 30 articles are involved. On April 9, ETHZ stated…

Science foundation targets careers, innovation

This content was published on May 19, 2015 In addition to supporting technology transfer and tenure-track academic careers, one of the goals of the initiative is to make Swiss research and innovation more flexible and sustainable. After voting to curb European immigration in February 2014, Switzerland’s future access to European research funding programmes such as Horizon 2020 has been up-in-the-air. In December, Switzerland…

Neuroscientists gain insights into memory formation

This content was published on May 18, 2015 The model, published in Nature Communications, concerns synaptic plasticity – the technical term for the way the brain’s network of electrical connections between neurons (synapses) is continually updated. When a connection occurs through a synapse, an electrical signal is sent from one neuron to another. Scientists have long theorised that changes in the speed, frequency…

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