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End of 20th century broke global cooling trend

This content was published on Apr 21, 2013 Using 511 local climate archives from all seven continents, researchers involved in the university’s PAGES (Past Global Changes) programme catalogued past temperature patterns based on tree rings, pollen, coral, the dimensions of lakes and oceans, stalagmites, ice cores and historic documents. They found that global temperatures fluctuated in specific regional patterns but that all regions…

Turning down the volume in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 21, 2013 EMPA, the institute for material sciences and technology development, carries out complex testing to help establish noise pollution guidelines. But it also works with industrial partners to develop noise-resistant materials. swissinfo visited the sound laboratories in Dübendorf to find out more. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)

Increasingly fewer quiet oases in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 21, 2013 An estimated one in six Swiss residents is exposed to harmful levels of noise in their daily life, a rate in line with the European average. Progress has been made in noise reduction but it still remains one of the most serious and underestimated environmental problems of our age. Around 1.3 million of Switzerland’s…

Oiled table-dancer draws crowds

This content was published on Apr 20, 2013

Team in search of a nation

This content was published on Apr 20, 2013 The team of Diyar Bethlehem comprises Christians and Muslims. While Christians are a small minority in the West Bank, their percentage in Bethlehem, the birth place of Jesus, is 35-40 per cent, although their number is decreasing. Despite tensions between Christians and Muslims in general, this does not seem to be the case for the…

Gender gap in science remains substantial

This content was published on Apr 11, 2013 The She Figures 2012Gender in Research and Innovation report covers the evolution of women’s careers in the 27 European Union countries plus Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. One of the features of the European labour market in the past decade has been increasing female representation in third level education. This trend is also…

Scraping by in a Caracas high-rise

This content was published on Apr 10, 2013 The death of promoter David Brillembourg in 1993 and the financial crisis of recent years put an end to the project. Torre David remained empty until 2007, when the authorities decided to open the first floor to a few hundred needy people. Today the tower houses about 750 families who pay just 170 Bolivar (CHF25)…

Scientists hope to solve enigma of dark matter

This content was published on Apr 3, 2013 The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has found the first hint of dark matter, Samuel Ting, the leader of an international team of scientists, announced at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, near Geneva on Wednesday. Dark matter, which has never been directly observed, is thought to help hold the cosmos together. Some 25 billion events…

Fewer Swiss donate organs, more need them

This content was published on Apr 3, 2013 In 2012, organs were harvested from 96 people in Switzerland who had agreed to be donors after death. This was six per cent down on 2011 according to Swisstransplant, the organisation charged with organ allocation. Releasing its annual report on Wednesday, Swisstransplant added that the number of living donors – people who give a kidney,…

National park river faces ‘worst case scenario’

This content was published on Apr 2, 2013

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