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Storms leave trail of damage

This content was published on Jul 11, 2010 Rail traffic was disrupted on various lines in different parts of the country. The popular tourist route between Zweisimmen in the Bernese Oberland and Montreux on Lake Geneva was cut by a landslide, while a power cut on the line running south-east from Zurich delayed trains bound for Austria. About 3,900 flashes of lightning were…

Swiss still sweltering

This content was published on Jul 10, 2010 A new record for the year of 34.8 degrees was set in Basel, the Swiss Metrological Office said. The office has issued a warning of forest fires in the southern canton of Valais, where there has been a persistent drought. The Health Office is reminding people to drink enough, especially water, and to keep their…

Solar power: the sky’s the limit

This content was published on Jul 9, 2010 Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, the initiator of the project, pilot André Borschberg, and the host of designers and developers who made the flight possible may have entered the history books, but what does their achievement mean in practical terms? “I hope that in two years time at the next Green Aviation Show we shall be…

Hollywood to star in Swiss charity golf bash

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The big-screen star will invite the public to bid to play golf with himself and a host of other celebrities in Switzerland in September. The event aims to raise around €500,000 (SFr666,600), part of which will go to Cambodia. The proceeds would go some way to funding the SFr3 million rebuilding project of the over-crowded…

Up with the sun

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 Packed with Swiss technology and backed by a host of personalities, the Solar Impulse plane completed the highest, longest flight of a solar-powered plane on July 7-8, 2010. It is a prototype for another version that pilots Bertrand Piccard, famous for his round-the-world balloon flight, and André Borschberg, a former fighter jet pilot, hope to…

“It was a very zen flight”

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The experimental solar-powered plane, known as Solar Impulse, landed safely at 9am on Thursday after completing its first night test flight, powered only by solar energy stored during the day. The organisers said it was the longest and highest flight in the history of solar aviation. Helpers rushed to steady the revolutionary aircraft as it…

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Remote villages show effects of inbreeding

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The findings by a team led by evolutionary biologist Erik Postma from Zurich University revealed that, contrary to popular belief, parents who are closely related to each other do not have fewer children. Rather, the effects of inbreeding can be seen one generation later, when their children have children. Previous studies have looked at societies…

Solar “lab” flies through the night

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The revolutionary new plane conceals a wealth of state-of-the-art technology and innovative design. Some 80 partners, including many Swiss companies, have helped conceive, build, test and fly the prototype. A jubilant and exhausted André Borschberg, the Swiss pilot and CEO of Solar Impulse, touched down at Payerne airfield north of Lausanne at 9am after a…

German newcomers struggle with Swiss German

This content was published on Jul 7, 2010 On the other hand, Germans who have been here for a while say dialect opens up the secret places of the Swiss heart. Recently, there has been a wave of German immigration to Switzerland, mainly because of the EU-Swiss agreement allowing free movement of people to take up jobs. One now meets Germans everywhere in…

Solar Impulse takes off on first night flight

This content was published on Jul 7, 2010 The plane took off shortly before 7am on Wednesday from Payerne airbase in western Switzerland. The inaugural night flight, powered by solar energy, was supposed to have taken place last week but was postponed because of a technical problem. During the day the plane should capture enough solar energy to keep it flying through the…

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