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Volcanic eruption

This content was published on Apr 19, 2010 The volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier has become a major problem since it started spewing ash high into the atmosphere on April 14. The cloud it has generated has caused major interruptions in flights over Europe. (All pictures: Keystone)

Centenary art celebrations in Zurich

This content was published on Apr 16, 2010 Switzerland’s oldest combined collection and exhibition space opened in its late Jugendstil museum in 1910. The fine arts museum is showcasing its collection and mounting a major Picasso show in tribute to its tradition of key exhibitions.

Erupting volcano cancels European flights

This content was published on Apr 15, 2010 By early evening on Thursday, 80 takeoffs and landings from Zurich had been cancelled. In Geneva, about 100 flights had been affected. Basel’s Euroairport was also hit. In the same period the airline Swiss had had to cancel 70 European flights, its spokesman said. However, none of its planes was stuck outside Switzerland, he added.…

Hundreds dead in Chinese earthquake

This content was published on Apr 15, 2010 The quake on the Tibetan plateau in Qinghai province early on Wednesday measured a magnitude of 6.9 and was followed by a series of aftershocks. Rescue efforts were hindered by telecommunications problems, with phone lines down. The China Earthquake Administration announced an initial death toll of 67 people in a brief statement on its website,…

EPFL solar researcher up for top science prize

This content was published on Apr 14, 2010 The prize’s Finnish awarding organisation on Wednesday lauded Michael Grätzel, director of the EPFL’s photonics and interfaces laboratory. German-born Grätzel invented dye-sensitised, low-cost/high-performance solar cells, which have led to the development of electricity-generating windows and mobile solar panels. The other two nominees are Cambridge University’s Richard Friend for inventions in optoelectronics that have enabled the…

Love is in the air

This content was published on Apr 14, 2010 For much of the history of life on land, plants had to be near each other to mate. Their amazing pollen grains have been captured by award-winning Swiss scientific photographer Martin Oeggerli, the Micronaut © Micronaut, kindly supported by R. Buchner and H. Halbritter, University of Vienna

Swiss are European leaders in recycling

This content was published on Apr 13, 2010 That’s according to a recent Reader’s Digest study, which polled more than 32,000 people in 16 European countries. Of the 1,336 questioned in Switzerland, 94 per cent said they recycled, compared with 82 per cent of Europeans. While 70 per cent of Europeans said they made a point of avoiding ecologically harmful products, 87 per…

Army’s environmental damage to be costly

This content was published on Apr 11, 2010 Other damaging equipment includes materials made from heavy metals and landfills. Geologists have identified dozens of contaminated sites in some communities, the SonntagsZeitung reported on Sunday. A spokesman for Switzerland’s armed forces confirmed the newspaper report. Most affected are the cantons of Bern, Freiburg, Geneva, St Gallen, Zurich and Ticino. Authorities have records of some…

Fossil find could be “missing link” to humans

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 A team of researchers from Zurich University helped to uncover the skeletons in South Africa, that are said to be between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old. The find could re-write the history of human development. At least five skeletons – two of them nearly perfectly formed – have so far been excavated from caves,…

T-shirt turns tough after transformation

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 But researchers from Switzerland, the United States and China have discovered that cotton can be transformed into a material that is extremely tough as well as flexible. What scientists in South Carolina have done is to combine the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third-hardest material on earth. The result is a…

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