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Gender equality has only been partly achieved

This content was published on May 27, 2014 Researchers said on Tuesday that it remains difficult to combine family life and a career in Switzerland because of a lack of affordable care options. Women still earn lower wages than men doing the same work, there is a lack of security for older women with lower means, and gender stereotypes prevail, the study found.…

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Researcher finds lava, not water, flowed on Mars

This content was published on May 12, 2014 Researchers had so far believed that a network of deep gorges known as the Noctis Labyrinthus and Mars’s largest canyon, the 4,000-kilometre-long Valles Marineris, were shaped by massive flows of water. Most studies over the past 20 years have been concerned with the question of water on Mars and how it could have carved the canyons, allowing…

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Scientists make single-atom magnet breakthrough

This content was published on May 9, 2014 The magnets created in the lab are made up of a single cobalt atom on an ultra-thin magnesium oxide surface. Scientists found that the combination of the cobalt with the magnesium oxide made the magnet three times stronger than if it were made of pure cobalt, requiring 1,000 times more energy to reverse its polarity.…

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Water organ

This content was published on May 9, 2014

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Science prize as career stepping stone

This content was published on May 9, 2014 Elsa Tschopp is beaming. A shy 18-year-old from canton Zurich, her mini submarine has been awarded a special prize at the recent Schweizer Jugend Forscht Foundation’s 48th national competition. She also has won an all-paid week-long trip to Norway to the European Space Camp. Not just a gimmick, the submarine is fitted with a camera…

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SNSF invests record CHF819 million in research

This content was published on May 5, 2014 The SNSF approved more than 3,400 research proposals involving about 14,000 researchers. Projects in biology and medicine received 40% of the funding, while mathematics, natural and engineering sciences were granted 33% and the humanities and social sciences 27%, the foundation said in its annual report, which was published on Monday. The SNSF has a government…

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Basel team shed light on Egyptian burials

This content was published on Apr 29, 2014 After searching the subterranean tomb’s central chamber and three of its four side chambers, the researchers and their Egyptian colleagues were able to name 30 people buried there. Titles such as prince and princess confirmed that some of the mummies were related to two 18th dynasty pharaohs, Thutmosis IV and Amenhotep III, who ruled during…

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Sponge trick helps dolphins find food

This content was published on Apr 23, 2014 Tool use – sometimes seen among primates and birds – is rare in the animal kingdom. It has been proposed as a significant driver of human evolution. The dolphins’ sponging technique was thought to be aimed at catching bottom-dwelling fish that are hard to detect by the dolphins’ sonar. However, evidence of whether this foraging…

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‘We’re not going to pull a rabbit out of a hat’

This content was published on Apr 21, 2014 Frédéric Riehl, deputy director of the Federal Communication Office, is one of three Swiss negotiators taking part in NETmundial from April 23-24 in São Paolo, Brazil. Around 800 participants were expected. The draft agreement for NETmundial has already been prepared based on contributions from a multi-stakeholder committee of governments, NGOs and the private sector. The…

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