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Swiss researchers decode horse communication

This content was published on May 16, 2015 Whinnies are the longest, loudest and most common horse communication and are composed of three parts: introduction, climax and end. But until now, it was not known that horses could whinny in two “voices”. “One frequency indicates whether the emotion is positive or negative, while the other frequency reveals the strength of the emotion,” says…

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Swiss researchers develop plant-based nanomaterials

This content was published on May 7, 2015 Scientists have found that short-term exposure to plant-derived cellulose nanofibres does not harm lung tissue.

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Driverless car test given green light

This content was published on Apr 28, 2015 On Tuesday the Federal Roads Office announced that the Swiss transport ministry had granted an exemption permit to Swisscom to test one car in Zurich. The exemption permit, which is valid until the end of the year, is necessary because in all other cases vehicles must be driven with two hands on the steering wheel,…

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Swiss sign contract for private cloud service

This content was published on Apr 23, 2015 A Swiss office has signed a contract with Hewlett Packard in Switzerland to develop a secure cloud computing service and a centralized data warehouse for the federal government.

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Swiss solo Arctic training expedition abandoned

This content was published on Apr 22, 2015 Thomas Ulrich guided a group to the North Pole from Russia and then set off solo towards Canada to finish the journey he had planned to make entirely alone in 2016. He travelled 80km in three days in tough conditions. Ulrich’s expedition manager, Hans Ambühl told swissinfo.ch that Ulrich faced “white-outs and stormy winds” along…

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Post office to test drone deliveries

This content was published on Apr 19, 2015 Tests are already underway in the United States in a collaboration with Swiss WorldCargo, using drones by California manufacturer MatternetExternal link, a firm primarily focused on developing airborne options for health care in developing countries. The goal of the pilot project will be to test the potential of the technology, said a Swiss PostExternal link…

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Giant galaxies die from the inside out

This content was published on Apr 17, 2015 Half of all mass in stars in the universe is found in giant galaxies that stopped forming new stars several billion years ago. Astronomers refer to these galaxies as “red and dead” because they consist almost exclusively of older stars that emit a reddish light, in contrast to young stars that emit a blueish light. …

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Researchers map and unlock new secrets of dark matter

This content was published on Apr 15, 2015 Swiss scientists have helped uncover a series of recent findings about the nature of dark matter in the universe.

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Creating the soundtrack for the universe

This content was published on Apr 14, 2015 StarMaker, Quantum Chaos, Photons: the names of the tracks on Ben Moore’s latest electro-rock album give some clues as to his day job.

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