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Who is cut out for a career in forensics?

This content was published on Mar 13, 2013 Down several steep staircases, deep in the bowels of an old grey building in the Swiss capital, lie the offices of the University of Bern’s Department of Forensic Physics/Ballistics, headed by Beat Kneubuehl, one of Europe’s foremost experts on gun injuries. Two young members of the five-member research team sit at computers by a large…

SMEs are preferred targets for cybercriminals

This content was published on Mar 10, 2013 René Bodmer, Kaspersky corporate sales manager for Switzerland, tells swissinfo.ch formal cooperation between government agencies and the anti-malware industry is needed to combat the growing problem. swissinfo.ch: In terms of the market and cyberattacks, how would you describe Switzerland? René Bodmer: Many highly specialised companies – both SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises] as well as larger…

Computer viruses – more destructive than a bomb

This content was published on Mar 10, 2013 A recent report by the American computer security company Mandiant has made headlines around worldwide. Its authors claimed that least 140 public administrations and private companies in America and Europe – including multinationals, arms industries, space agencies, energy providers and media – have been victims of computer attacks coming from China over a period of…

The rise and rise of political activism

This content was published on Mar 6, 2013 Occupy Wall Street or flash mobs (gatherings quickly organised online) can be forms of political participation. Citizens try to shape society in this way, according to Swiss political scientist Dorothée de Nève and co-author Tina Olteanu, whose German-language book Political Participation Beyond Convention was recently launched in Berlin. swissinfo.ch: What are the conventional and unconventional…

Getting back on your feet one step at a time

This content was published on Mar 5, 2013 Look around and you will certainly find reports about paraplegics getting around thanks to so-called exoskeletons. Last year, Claire Lomas finished the London marathon wearing a bionic suit, albeit 16 days after the race began. The electronic gear helping her along was worth £43,000 (CHF63,000 at the time) – and cost is one of the…

Robots make walking again possible

This content was published on Mar 5, 2013

Parents underestimate kids’ online experience

This content was published on Mar 1, 2013 Parents in Switzerland are to a great extent unaware of the potential dangers which their children are exposed to online, the study, which was released Friday, found. “The number of nine-to-16-year-olds who have already experienced one of the investigated risks is substantial,” said media researcher Martin Hermida, who coordinated the survey. Based on extrapolation, he…

Observers spot first-ever live planet formation

This content was published on Mar 1, 2013 The astronomers, led by Zurich Federal Institute of Technology researcher Sascha Quanz, noted that their observation strongly supports the theory that planets form by picking up the leftover gas and dust after a star is born. According to Quanz, the issue of planet formation has mostly been explored through computer simulations so far. But, in recent…

Amid new technologies, ‘cartography has its place’

This content was published on Mar 1, 2013 swisstopo’s online “time travel” tool is supposedly the first of its kind in the world and allows users to choose a spot on the Swiss map and watch, through an instant overlay of map editions, how that place has changed over a certain period of time. The tool was developed in response to a 2007 Swiss…

Cultural understanding is key to better treatment

This content was published on Feb 27, 2013 Every year, the foreign population in Switzerland increases – a demographic evolution which poses a challenge for doctors and nurses. As a result, the anthropological aspect of treating people has become an important part of medical education. For years, Graber, a nurse by training, has been interested in interculturalism within the healthcare sector. Now a…

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