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Solar energy to be developed in Lausanne

This content was published on Jan 15, 2009 The Institute and the power company Romande Energie announced on Thursday they had joined forces to build a photovoltaic centre covering an area of around 20,000 square metres on the campus. The new facility will be commissioned in stages from this year and will ultimately produce over two million kWh of electricity annually. The project,…

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Remember the bad and not the good

This content was published on Jan 14, 2009 That is the finding of a theoretical biologist at Bern University who studied how populations grow based on how much weight individuals place on positive versus negative experiences. “We don’t want to make any moral statements because this is just a computer model that offers a very simplified view of the world,” said Daniel Rankin,…

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Secrets of the Milky Way are revealed

This content was published on Jan 7, 2009 The researchers were able to draw a complete map of the galaxy’s unique spiral arms, confirming that there are four of the structures. The breakthrough could help other scientists engaged in the search for dark matter. Until now, the centre of the Milky Way has evaded observation because it is obscured by clouds of dust.…

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Blind mouse improves Braille learning

This content was published on Jan 6, 2009 This time it is a Swiss researcher who is applying a bit of technical wizardry and a lot of practicality to help people get the hang of Braille’s binary code more quickly. Philippe Racine, the maker of the Mouskie, a mouse-software system, says that when launched, it will be a product with no competitors in…

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Einstein tops list of leading Swiss

This content was published on Jan 4, 2009 Albert Einstein (1879-1955) beat such greats as Red Cross founder Henry Dunant and educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in a survey conducted for the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, whose results are published in this Sunday’s issue. Einstein, who is best known for the theory of relativity which he developed in 1905 when employed by the patent office in…

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Kestrel soars in public affection

This content was published on Dec 30, 2008 The bird protection organisation SVS/BirdLife Switzerland said on Tuesday that a webcam had made a breeding pair with five young famous well beyond the Swiss borders. Internet users were able to follow events in the nest in Muttenz, near the German border, for several months. Up to 9,000 people visited the website per day. The…

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Seriously ill youth more prone to bad habits

This content was published on Dec 30, 2008 The findings by a Lausanne University-led team have been published in the United States-based Pediatrics medical journal. The team drew on data compiled from the 2002 Swiss Multicenter Adolescent Survey on Health, a nationally representative study of 7,548 young people aged 16 to 20 in the three language areas of Switzerland. Among the participants were…

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Augmented reality

This content was published on Dec 26, 2008 Journalist Justin Häne travels to the city of Basel, where a cross-disciplinary team has created a system that merges the visions of artists, architects and archaeologists with the real world.

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Big Bang machine is named top phenomenon

This content was published on Dec 18, 2008 The “Big Bang Machine”, the world’s largest particle accelerator, only functioned for nine days in September before a helium leak caused a malfunction, shutting it down until the summer of 2009. Nevertheless, the editors of the United States-based journal said the collider would be a major success if the atom smasher produced “even a little…

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