Archive - Science Archives - Page 281 of 577

More

Synthes: leading medical device company

This content was published on Apr 27, 2011 Synthes Holding AG is a multinational medical device manufacturer with a base in Solothurn, Switzerland. It is the world’s largest maker of implants to mend bone fractures, and also produces surgical power tools and advanced biomaterials.The firm is a constituent of the SMI index. (Video courtesy of Synthes)

More

“Giant doughnut” joins the hunt for antimatter

This content was published on Apr 27, 2011 The AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer), which was co-created by scientists at Geneva University and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is set to be launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour at 3.47pm local time on Friday. The launch has drawn the attention of United States President Barack Obama, who plans to be at Kennedy…

More

Basel stinker soon to fade

This content was published on Apr 24, 2011 However, the sight will soon be over. On Sunday afternoon huge dark red petal-like structure surrounding the yellow flowering structure began to wilt. The central structure itself is likely to collapse on Monday, the custodian of the botanical gardens, Heinz Schneider, told the Swiss News Agency. On Saturday alone, more than 10,000 people came to…

More

Galileo’s heirs advise the pope

This content was published on Apr 24, 2011 Werner Arber, an Aargau-born microbiologist and geneticist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is the first Protestant to hold the position. The 81-year-old heads a body that is meant to keep the pope up to date with the latest scientific developments. Historically, however, the Catholic Church has had a strained relationship with science,…

More

New light on how mind meets brain

This content was published on Apr 23, 2011 The research by Francois Ansermet, a psychoanalyst from Geneva university, and Pierre Magistretti, a neuroscientist from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, offers new insights into how we think, behave and act. On Thursday they spoke about their work to a conference in New York of psychoanalysts, doctors and scientists, explaining how the fields…

More

Stinking giant a hit in Basel

This content was published on Apr 23, 2011 The only previous time a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produced a flower in Switzerland was 75 years ago. World-wide, there have only been 134 recorded instances of cultivated plants blooming. The nearly two-metre tall flower opened on Friday evening. The flower started to poke out of the soil in March, and in the past few…

More

Cern breaks new record in particle collisions

This content was published on Apr 22, 2011 The development on Friday happened after they fed beams into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with some six per cent more particles per unit than the previous record set by the Fermilab’s Tevatron collider in the United States last year. Each collision in the LHC’s 27-kilometre circular underground tunnel creates a simulation of the Big…

More

CHILDS_DREAM_SCHOOL_ORIGINAL

This content was published on Apr 18, 2011 350 Characters

More

Writing wrongs

This content was published on Apr 17, 2011 The charter of the United Nations, founded in 1945, aims to promote the respect and implementation of basic and human rights. Until the Second World War, human rights were almost always a matter of individual states.

Archive – Science

Popular Stories

Most Discussed

Archive – Science

More

A revolutionary concept for solar and thermal energy

More

Synthes: leading medical device company

More

“Giant doughnut” joins the hunt for antimatter

More

Basel stinker soon to fade

More

Galileo’s heirs advise the pope

More

New light on how mind meets brain

More

Stinking giant a hit in Basel

More

Cern breaks new record in particle collisions

More

CHILDS_DREAM_SCHOOL_ORIGINAL

More

Writing wrongs

Popular Stories

Most Discussed