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Energy balance sheet gives new climate clues

This content was published on Dec 7, 2011 The work by Professor Reto Knutti and doctoral student Markus Huber of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich is published in the latest edition of the journal Nature Geoscience. Their method involves drawing up a balance sheet of the energy entering and leaving the Earth –…

Zooreal

This content was published on Dec 7, 2011 They range from indifferent cruelty to over-the-top idolatry, with everything in between. Zurich photographer Livio Piatti doesn’t see himself as an animal photographer, but his work shows the different relationships that may arise – where for better or worse it’s always the human being who calls the tune.

Government mulls green tax reforms

This content was published on Dec 1, 2011 The hope is that such tax reforms could help reduce energy consumption and eliminate Switzerland’s dependence on nuclear energy by 2050. As Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told the media in Bern on Thursday, the goal is not to increase tax volume. Rather, the idea is to reform the tax system without creating a tax burden…

Mild weather fools trees

This content was published on Nov 30, 2011 The trees on the Treille promenade by the old city, including the “official chestnut” have put out leaves for the second time this year, the city council official charged with monitoring the tree said on Wednesday. Every year since 1818 the appearance of the first leaves on the official chestnut has been used to decide…

Exceptional autumn too warm and dry

This content was published on Nov 28, 2011 MeteoSwiss said on Monday that temperatures were about two degrees centigrade above the long-term average. Only the autumn of 2006 was warmer. There was also more sunshine. The weather service said areas north of the Alps were blessed with 30 per cent more sunshine. The downside was below average rainfall. Northern Switzerland received only 40…

ZOOREAL_PIATTI_ORIGINAL

This content was published on Nov 23, 2011 Sie reichen mit allen Zwischentönen von gleichgültiger Grausamkeit bis zu mystisch überhöhter Liebe. Der Zürcher Fotograf Livio Piatti sieht sich nicht als Tierfotograf, aber er bildet in dieser Arbeit mit Intensität und Humor das gegenseitige Verhältnis ab. Eine Beziehung, die immer einseitig vom Menschen diktiert wird, mit mehr oder weniger Verständnis für die ihm ausgelieferte…

The art of toilets

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 Students from the industrial design and visual communication departments at Ecal look at a problem familiar to 40 per cent of the world’s population: a lack of toilets.

Getting your Neckers in a twist

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 swissinfo.ch looks at the life and work of a man who was born into a family of Geneva geniuses and died a childless recluse on a Scottish island, making a key contribution to the study of perception along the way. Louis Albert Necker de Saussure was the eldest of four children born into an academically…

New tests corroborate light speed problem

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 Scientists working on the OPERA experiment at the Geneva headquarters of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) said on Friday they had used a new type of proton beam to propel neutrinos through the earth’s crust to a laboratory in Italy 730 kilometres away. “With this new type of beam produced by Cern’s particle…

“Big Bang” machine to get big upgrade

This content was published on Nov 17, 2011 International physicists launched the major programme for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which runs around a 27 kilometre circular tunnel under the border of Switzerland and France, on Wednesday. Cern officials said the effort, which involves scientific establishments in the European Union, the United States and Japan, would require the development of new technologies in…

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