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Nuclear reactor shut down to fix pump fault

This content was published on Mar 24, 2012 The shutdown at the plant in northern Switzerland happened on Friday night and is expected to last for several days. A problem arose with the shaft seal unit of the coolant pump at Beznau II, the operator Axpo said in a statement. It was shut down as a “preventative measure”. Axpo said the reactor posed no danger to…

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Beznau in northern Switzerland is now the world’s oldest nuclear plant

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Cancer mortality expected to fall in Europe

This content was published on Feb 29, 2012 An estimated 717,400 men and 565,700 women will die of cancer in those countries in 2012, according to a study published in the Annals of Oncology. That’s a ten and seven per cent drop respectively when compared with World Health Organization figures for 2007. The researchers from Vaud University Hospital and the Mario Negri Institute…

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Mummy discovery reveals ancient secrets

This content was published on Feb 28, 2012 The Valley of the Kings is like a Holy Grail for Egyptologists. Situated on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Luxor, it is the burial site of many pharaohs and members of royal families or powerful nobles of the Egyptian Empire. It was here, in 1922, that the most famous discovery in the history…

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Solar Impulse tests limits of endurance

This content was published on Feb 24, 2012 André Borschberg, who successfully piloted the Solar Impulse from Switzerland to Belgium and France last summer, emerged from the cockpit simulator on Friday morning rested and upbeat. For the previous three days, Borschberg had lived – eating, sleeping and exercising – in the confined space of the cockpit, all while piloting the plane through a…

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Faster-than-light findings questioned

This content was published on Feb 23, 2012 Researchers at the Cern physics research centre just outside Geneva announced in September that they appeared to have discovered neutrinos travelling faster than light – an impossibility in Einstein’s theories which govern current understanding of the laws of physics. But a Cern spokesman said on Wednesday that a bad connection had been discovered between the…

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Breast cancer rates continue to fall

This content was published on Feb 16, 2012 They found that the breast cancer mortality rate between 2002-2006 fell by seven per cent, dropping from 17.9 to 16.7 deaths per 100,000 women. They expect a decrease of nine per cent for the period 2006-2012. The largest mortality rate fall was seen in northern European countries – it was down 38 per cent in…

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Taking bird feeders to the next level

This content was published on Feb 16, 2012

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Swiss “janitor satellite” to clean up space

This content was published on Feb 15, 2012 Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, (EPFL), hope the SFr10-million ($11-million) CleanSpace One prototype satellite will be in the skies by 2016 in a bid to help resolve the worsening space junk problem. “It’s time to do something to reduce the amount of debris floating around in space,” Swiss astronaut and EPFL professor…

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