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Cern scientists find way to study antimatter

This content was published on Jun 6, 2011 Antimatter atoms – in this case antihydrogen – which used to disappear after two tenths of a second, can now be held for 15 minutes, according to an article in the journal Nature Physics published online on Sunday. Scientists believe that studying antimatter will help them understand what happened during the first few moments of…

WHO says E.coli strain never seen before

This content was published on Jun 2, 2011 A spokeswoman in Geneva said that the WHO was waiting for more information from laboratories. Chinese scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen city, who have newly analysed the genes of the strain, said it carried genes which made it resistant to some classes of antibiotics and was highly toxic. The scientists in Beijing,…

Dams generate hopes and fears

This content was published on Jun 2, 2011 About 900 experts in dams from all over the world converged on Lucerne this week for the annual symposium of the International Commission on Large Dams (Icold) to exchange experiences and to see how the Swiss do things. Switzerland has a long history of dam building: the oldest dam still in use is the Wenigerweiher…

Guardian Angels aim for billion-euro EU prize

This content was published on May 31, 2011 swissinfo.ch visited “The Guardian Angels” project laboratories at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) to find out more about the next-generation chips that may transform our daily lives. Visitors to Michael Graetzel’s EPFL lab come away spellbound. One or two raspberries are squashed between two small glass layers, one of which is covered…

Dogs as a help in reducing hyperactivity, shyness and stress in primary schoolchildren

This content was published on May 31, 2011

Looking back on 40 years of energy production

This content was published on May 26, 2011

Scientist finds flower growing above 4,500m

This content was published on May 24, 2011 Cushions of Saxifraga oppositifolia were found close to the Don summit in the central Swiss Alps, with one large individual flower, estimated to be more than 30 years old, in full bloom in August 2009. University of Basel botanist Christian Körner discovered the plant growing above Saas Fee in canton Valais, on the Mischabel mountain…

Self-healing polymer generates army interest

This content was published on May 23, 2011 Scientists from Fribourg University and two laboratories in the United States have developed a polymer-based coating, known as a “metallo-supramolecular” polymer, that can heal itself when placed under ultraviolet light for less than a minute. “For the moment it’s still at the basic research level,” Christoph Weder, director of Fribourg University’s Adolphe Merkle Institute, told…

Henry Markram tells Marc-André Miserez of the ethical issues.

This content was published on May 19, 2011

Probing the secrets of the brain

This content was published on May 19, 2011 The Human Brain Project (HBP) builds on work already being done by a team at the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), under the name of Blue Brain, which is headed by Henry Markram. The HBP will use everything we know about the brain to make computer models that can then be used to simulate…

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