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Big data sociology, a trend for the future?

This content was published on Jan 5, 2014 “FuturICT was just a bit ahead of its time,” says Dirk Helbing, FuturICT’s scientific coordinator from Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology. “It was the newest idea – and the two winners of the [EU] Flagship subsidy have already got a track record. Graphene has a Nobel prize attached to it – and the Human Brain…

Next-gen chip designers remain optimistic

This content was published on Jan 5, 2014 Guardian Angels is an ambitious Swiss-led project to develop tiny zero-energy electronic chips designed to monitor the body’s vital functions, and to compute and communicate the data obtained. A year after the frustration of losing the funding race, the backers are going ahead with plans to produce their first prototype. Like all major scientific projects,…

‘Guardian Angels for a smarter life’

This content was published on Jan 5, 2014

Swiss Greenpeace activist gets exit visa

This content was published on Dec 26, 2013 Weber, along with all but one of the members of the so-called “Arctic 30” group, was informed on Wednesday that all charges against them were being dropped in connection with a decree by the Russian Parliament, which approved amnesty for thousands of prisoners last week. The Arctic 30 – 28 Greenpeace International activists and two freelance journalists –…

Russian researchers say Arafat was not poisoned

This content was published on Dec 26, 2013 Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia’s Federal Medical and Biological Agency, said on Thursday that Arafat’s death at a military hospital in France in 2004 was “natural and not caused by radiation”, according to Russia’s state news agency. Around 60 samples were taken from the remains of the Palestinian leader in November 2012 after he was exhumed in Ramallah. The samples were…

Storm winds sweep over Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 25, 2013 Also cancelled in the Bernese Oberland until the early afternoon was the Wengernalp railway, that links Grindelwald and Wengen with the Kleine Scheidegg. In canton Graubünden in the far south east, the spectacular Unesco World Heritage line between Pontresina and Poschiavo suffered storm damage and the service was temporarily halted. At Rheineck, just south of…

Greenpeace activist should be home soon

This content was published on Dec 25, 2013 The only remaining hurdle for the foreign activists is getting permission to leave the country. Reporting the news, Greenpeace said they had already applied for exit visas. A Greenpeace spokesman in St Petersburg confirmed to Swiss public radio that they were certain Weber would soon be able to leave, although it was not possible to give a…

Swiss planet hunter among top scientists

This content was published on Dec 19, 2013 In 1995, Mayor and Didier Queloz made the first discovery of a giant planet orbiting a sun-like star, spawning a revolution in astronomy. Today, about 1,050 of these exoplanets are known, hundreds of them found by Mayor and his team over the past two decades. According to Nature, 2013 brought the 71-year-old planet hunter a…

Scientists show how cancer cells repair DNA

This content was published on Dec 5, 2013 Thanos Halazonetis from the University of Geneva and colleagues in Finland, Germany, the United States and Sweden identified a repair process that had previously been observed in yeast but not in humans, according to a study published online by the journal Science on Thursday. For cells to divide, they must replicate their DNA which consists…

Radiation specialists maintain Arafat death analysis

This content was published on Dec 5, 2013 The Lausanne researchers reaffirmed that their results “reasonably” support the hypothesis of poisoning. Patrice Mangin, director of the city’s University Centre of Legal Medicine, told Swiss public broadcaster RTS that the French conclusion that a generalised infection or natural causes could explain Arafat’s death was “surprising”. On Tuesday, the Palestinian leader’s wife Suha Arafat presented…

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