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Independence confirmed of nuclear watchdog

This content was published on Dec 3, 2012 Nevertheless, internal procedures should be optimised, according to the report, published on Monday. “The Ensi board has full confidence in the Ensi management and staff,” said Anne Eckhardt, president of the Ensi board. The result, she added, showed that the watchdog could perform its function effectively. “No evidence was found that Nagra manipulated the sectoral…

The unfinished job of Swiss feminists

This content was published on Nov 29, 2012 swissinfo.ch spoke to one of the authors, Silvia Ricci Lempen, who explains that although feminism, like other collective movements, has left the streets and entered the realm of theory, this is a necessary tool on the path to full equality. Geneva-born Emilie Gourd founded the review in 1912 to campaign for women’s rights. The periodical…

Swiss seek way to an energy-producing house

This content was published on Nov 21, 2012 Retrofitting old buildings with more energy efficient materials and implementing stricter energy laws for new buildings will be key elements of reaching the 2035 energy efficiency goal. After 2015, renovations to increase energy efficiency will be subsidised with a yearly budget of SFr600 million ($634 million); currently, that budget stands at SFr200 million. After 2020,…

Warm in winter, thanks to summer heat

This content was published on Nov 21, 2012 By 2025, the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) expect their sprawling Campus Science City complex to be practically CO2 emission free. Thermal insulation, long a mainstay of energy conservation, is expendable. The pioneering project has solved the riddle of reusing heat, very simply put, with the aid of a water circulation and underground storage system. In summer…

Major shift in energy policy looms

This content was published on Nov 15, 2012 It will be the issue of the century for Swiss politics – but also for the economy and society as a whole. The new energy strategy, devised in the wake of the March 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima, will need to be implemented over several decades and will keep two or three generations of politicians…

Travel applications connect the dots

This content was published on Nov 13, 2012 Once upon a time, Swiss maps were considered by many people to be an example of craftsmanship and precision. Today, they still are, but face competition from location-based services on mobile devices, not least from tourism specialists. Knowing where you are has gone from a privilege once reserved for the United States armed forces to…

Astrophysics’ biggest quest

This content was published on Nov 8, 2012 Exoplanet science is the most rapidly growing field in current astronomy, according to Britain’s Cambridge University – the alma mater of Isaac Newton. The venerable institution has just recruited Swiss astrophysicist Didier Quéloz, who helped discover 51 Peg b, the first identified exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system. During work on his PhD…

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A quest for identity after the Bosnian conflict

This content was published on Nov 6, 2012 During the Bosnian conflict, which lasted from March 1992 to December 1995, some 30,000 citizens went missing. “Most of them were killed either in the early days of the war or towards the end of the hostilities, when UN safe zones like Srebrenica fell into the hands of the Serb Army. As part of the…

One-time boomtown sees a turnaround

This content was published on Nov 5, 2012 As Americans head to the polls on November 6, the economy is foremost on most voters’ minds and both candidates have pushed their plans to bring the country back to prosperity. Despite losing many big industrial work providers, Rochester represents the type of turnaround the country is hoping for, having added jobs in the last…

Mountain villages look for a workable future

This content was published on Nov 4, 2012 In Switzerland, for example, only around one in seven inhabitants live in the Alps, even though nearly two thirds of Swiss territory is considered alpine. In 1800, the figure was more than one in five. A topic at a recent conference was how to boost employment opportunities in the alpine region. The main theme of…

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