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Swiss and US neuroscience research gets boost

This content was published on Oct 30, 2010 The collaborative effort between the American university in Boston and Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) is the result of an initiative by Switzerland’s biotech billionaire, Ernesto Bertarelli. The Bertarelli Program, which includes a $9 million gift to the HMS, will promote translational neuroscience research and education and bring together basic and clinical investigators with…

Leuenberger says West is spoiling biodiversity

This content was published on Oct 29, 2010 In his last speech before he steps down from office, Leuenberger did not mince his words at the international meeting in Nagoya. “In Switzerland, I was advised not to mention our shortcomings to the outside world. I find this attitude wrong.” He called on the Swiss to look at themselves “objectively” in the mirror. “What…

Plants are the key to biodiversity

This content was published on Oct 28, 2010 This means that a decrease in the variety of flora will have a negative effect on the fauna, as Bern University announced on Thursday. The study was based on an experiment conducted in the German city of Jena. It showed that the plant kingdom determines how many types of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores can live…

Call for cash from science and research

This content was published on Oct 28, 2010 The board said an increase in the annual budget of at least six per cent was needed for academic training and research over the next five years. The six institutions, two schools and four application-oriented research organisations, currently receive a total of SFr2 billion ($2 billion) from the government. The funds available were no longer…

Finding out how the superrich think

This content was published on Oct 27, 2010 A study by a team of sociologists from Basel University has looked into the lives of the country’s wealthy to find out about their power, relations to society and the rich-poor gap. According to the Basel sociology professor Ueli Mäder and his other two team members Sarah Schilliger and Ganaga Jey Aratnam, a person needs…

Keeping the Dead Sea alive

This content was published on Oct 23, 2010 The region’s inhabitants draw too much water from the local rivers, leaving an insufficient amount to compensate for evaporation from the famous lake. Tourists travelling to the Dead Sea from Jerusalem are always surprised to see how the road leads downhill. There is an almost 1,100-metre difference in altitude between the city and the sea.…

Time takes its toll on old Swiss language

This content was published on Oct 20, 2010 They used dialects of the language group now known as Franco-Provençal, which today have all but disappeared. Scholars are working against the clock to gather information about them, while enthusiasts are doing their best to keep the flame alive. Traditionally there has been something of the idea that these dialects, commonly referred to as patois,…

Neuroscience joins psychiatry on the couch

This content was published on Oct 18, 2010 The director of the Brain Mind Institute at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is leading a major new national research project, “Synapsy”, into the neurobiological mechanisms behind mental and cognitive disorders. The research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and launched at the beginning of October, aims to bring the two disciplines…

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Why noise is bad for attracting girls

This content was published on Oct 17, 2010 The research on reed buntings by a Zurich University team has shed further light on the – still not yet fully known – effects of noise pollution on birds. Previous studies among certain species in Europe, Australia and North America have shown that city birds sing at a higher pitch than their country cousins. This…

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