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How plants could protect against arsenic

This content was published on Nov 15, 2010 In a statement, they said that the results were a promising basis for reducing the build-up of the toxin in crops, such as rice, in regions of Asia, as well as for the clean-up of contaminated soils. Arsenic is present in water in some regions of the world – through the sinking of tube wells…

Swiss high tech to orbit Mars

This content was published on Nov 13, 2010 The university’s Space Research and Planetary Sciences Division, headed by British-born Professor Nicolas Thomas, is to oversee construction of the telescope camera that will take the images. Swiss firms will be invited to tender for the manufacture of the parts. Being asked to construct the camera is a real feather in the cap of the…

Fascinating images

This content was published on Nov 11, 2010 The HiSCI project will not start delivering Mars pictures until 2016. But the HiRISE project has already sent numerous pictures from the planet. (Pictures: NASA / University of Arizona)

Bircher muesli’s forgotten champion

This content was published on Nov 10, 2010 Dagmar Liechti-von Brasch was a woman ahead of her times: the charismatic doctor took over Bircher-Benner’s Zurich clinic in the 1940s after his death. She was also a mother of four. Liechti-von Brasch was born in Estonia in 1911, the daughter of a Baltic German aristocrat Allo von Brasch and Bircher-Benner’s sister Alice, who had…

Dizzying heights

This content was published on Nov 10, 2010 The Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern is showing images by Jules Beck (1825-1904), the first Swiss mountain photographer.

Scientists collide lead ions in Big Bang machine

This content was published on Nov 8, 2010 A spokeswoman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) outside Geneva says the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, recorded its first lead ion collisions on Sunday. Barbara Warmbein said on Monday researchers were trying to detect a thick soup of matter called “quark-gluon plasma” in the hope of gaining a deeper…

Masterplan to boost “cleantech” unveiled

This content was published on Nov 4, 2010 Doris Leuthard, the new environment minister, said efforts should be focused on research and development of technologies that deal with climate issues, resource management and saving energy. The “Cleantech Masterplan”, a 160-page outline released on Thursday, is designed to help Switzerland “reduce its resource consumption to naturally sustainable levels” by 2020. The plan also calls…

Report says lead is greatest toxic threat

This content was published on Nov 3, 2010 The 2010 Toxic Threat Report – the first of its kind – was drawn up by environmental groups Green Cross Switzerland and the United States-based Blacksmith Institute. In a media statement on Wednesday, the groups said that lead comes from sources such as leaded gasoline for transportation, battery recycling and metal smelters. This made it…

Chinese reflections

This content was published on Nov 3, 2010 Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux, two young Swiss photographers from Fribourg, travelled to China’s cities and rural areas in 2009. They observed people during their free time and captured these varied moments in their pictures.

When a dog is given a bad name

This content was published on Nov 1, 2010 There are only about 150 purebred dogs of the Sennenhund breed left in Switzerland, and experts say they have lost popularity in their traditional heartland. Interestingly enough, there are more purebreds in Germany and the Netherlands, where breeding is a common hobby and perhaps also because they are considered exotic there, experts say. But the…

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