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Supergene secret to beautiful butterfly mimicry

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011 The results of a joint study conducted by scientists at Fribourg University, Exeter University in Britain and the Museum of Natural History in Paris were published on Wednesday in Nature magazine. By studying an Amazonian butterfly, the Heliconius Numata, scientists discovered three chromosome types which correspond to three different mimicries. They showed that during evolution…

The healing touch

This content was published on Aug 16, 2011 Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offers patients a different approach to healing, which now has many adepts in the West as well. The doctor helps the patient to mobilise his or her own instincts to find the way to health. (swissinfo.ch, Shao Dahai, Yang Xudong).

Sunny memories

This content was published on Aug 15, 2011 The “Sunny Memories” exhibition held at Harvard University in 2010 linked techological innovation – dyed solar cells – with creative design. (All pictures: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti / Daniela Droz)

Blowing-up the solar power market

This content was published on Aug 7, 2011 Felix Tiefenbacher and Samuel Kutter of Vienna-based Heliovis have seen the future and the future is sausage shaped and inflatable. The prototype is impressive: a 35-metre long tube, two metres in diameter. The final 200-metre long device is due on the market in 2016. The solar innovators have permission to assemble and test their device…

Bern scientists contribute to Mars discovery

This content was published on Aug 5, 2011 Recently analysed images from the United States space agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite show dark, finger-like features that extend down some slopes and crater walls on the planet during its late spring and summer, fading in the Martian winter. On board the satellite was a device developed by Bern University’s Space Research and Planetary Sciences…

Scientists aim to unravel secrets of universe

This content was published on Jul 29, 2011 Michel Spiro, council president of Geneva-based Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tells swissinfo.ch about existential questions and “collaborative globalisation”. A hundred metres beneath Geneva, bunches of protons whizz around a 27-kilometre long tube – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – at a speed approaching that of light. When they collide, their tiny point…

Zurich hospital pioneers prenatal surgery

This content was published on Jul 28, 2011 The operations – the first of their kind outside the United States – were conducted on unborn children with spina bifida, a defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth. The two successful surgical interventions were conducted late 2010 and in the middle of this year, Martin Meuli, director of…

Ozone levels exceed safe limits

This content was published on Jul 27, 2011 A safe hourly limit of 120 micrograms per cubic metre was exceeded at various times. Between January and June the limit was exceeded 190 times in Zurich and Basel and 340 times in Lugano, where peaks of 280 micrograms per cubic metre were recorded. In a report published on Wednesday, the Federal Commission for Air…

LHC: visionary project or waste of money?

This content was published on Jul 26, 2011 The greatest scientific folly of all time or the most visionary project ever attempted by mankind. How do you think Cern's Large Hadron Collider will be viewed in 20 years?

Cern hopes to find “God particle” by 2012

This content was published on Jul 25, 2011 Cern director Rolf Heuer says the latest findings from the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, have been enough to convince the centre that progress is being made in their hunt for the most sought-after of particles – the Higgs boson. “I would say we can settle the question, the Shakespearean question…

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