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Climate sceptics continue to dismiss scientific ‘farce’

This content was published on Oct 31, 2014 “It’s incredibly arrogant to believe that humans can influence the climate,” says Werner Munter, a world-renowned expert on avalanches. The 73-year-old from Bern is not a climatologist, but over the past three years he says he has read some 20 books and hundreds of scientific studies on the issue. “Nowhere have I been able to…

EU backs Switzerland’s return to research programme

This content was published on Oct 24, 2014 On Friday the commission backed Switzerland’s partial and temporary association with the programme until 2016. It allows for the Swiss to be able to receive funding from the EU for certain projects again. The Swiss cabinet had on Wednesday already given the green light to this agreement. Based on the new deal, researchers in Switzerland…

Dübendorf: 100 years of aviation

This content was published on Oct 15, 2014

Scientists make carbon capture breakthrough

This content was published on Oct 13, 2014 Carbon capture has been touted as a solution to reduce global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by collecting the CO2 released from factories and power plants and storing it. However, there are many obstacles that prevent it from being scaled up to the extent necessary to be a really effective solution. The most common approach to…

Three-day Ebola quarantine judged ‘too short’

This content was published on Oct 8, 2014 The team, led by Tanja Stadler from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the federal institute of technology ETH Zurich, analysed the DNA of 70 people who had fallen ill with Ebola in Sierra Leone in May and June. The researchers used software to establish a family tree of the virus. They thus…

The Swiss start-up tackling radiation threats

This content was published on Oct 8, 2014 Entrepreneurs have helped develop a new system to detect radiological threats, which is being tested at ports across Europe. (SRF ECO, swissinfo.ch)

Europe’s brain project is ‘back on track’

This content was published on Oct 7, 2014 One year after the launch of the Human Brain Project (HBP) – a major European Commission-led brain mapping initiative – the project’s supporters boast ‘remarkable’ results and say the venture is on track after a war with dissenting neuroscientists.

Manipulating climate to fight global warming

This content was published on Oct 3, 2014 The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increase and a world agreement on climate seems far off. So why not use technology to change the climate artificially? Swissinfo.ch asks some Swiss scientists about the pros and cons.

Syngenta aims to win support for ʻresponsible growthʼ

This content was published on Sep 26, 2014 The Basel-based company selling seeds, crops, fertilisers and pesticides recently presented its growth programmeExternal link with its commitments to social security and explained how it wants to do its bit to tackle the challenges of having to feed the world’s growing population. On the same day, UN researchers forecast that the world population will rise…

ETH Swiss study shows cows bothered by bells

This content was published on Sep 25, 2014 Scientists have proven that cowbells have an impact on cows’ wellbeing. As part of a PhD study involving more than 100 cows on 25 farms across the country, animals were fitted with 5.5 kilogram bells plus monitors to gauge the sound level, the cows’ movements, heart rate and eating habits. Tests were carried out over…

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