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Sun strips away Venus’s water

This content was published on Feb 20, 2008 Swiss and international researchers have been scrutinising the Earth’s nearest neighbour with Venus Express, a European Space Agency probe, to understand how planets develop. Venus, the second rock from the sun, is a hot and inhospitable place where the surface pressure is 90 times stronger than that found on Earth. Not a place where you…

Blind patient gets “bionic eye” implant

This content was published on Feb 19, 2008 The device uses a camera mounted on a pair of glasses to feed visual information to electrodes in the eye, allowing the patient to see light, shapes and movement. “It’s close to science fiction,” Avinoam Safran, head of the ophthalmology department at Geneva’s University Hospital, told swissinfo. “Ten years ago we couldn’t have imagined attaining…

From cradle to crave: men get hungry too

This content was published on Feb 16, 2008 They say it is quite common for a man to share his pregnant partner’s mood swings, morning sickness or cravings for industrial amounts of chocolate fudge ice cream up to and after the birth of a child. “On both sides, there is always a biological and psychological element,” Tiziana Perini, a psychotherapist and researcher at…

Needles may be headed for the scrapheap

This content was published on Feb 12, 2008 Aerosol vaccines could replace the common jab and would be particularly useful for immunisation programmes in developing countries where qualified medical staff and hygiene are often lacking. Aerosol technology is one of the most recent methods being tested for large-scale vaccination campaigns. “When you inject, there are health risks,” said Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl, one of the…

Geneva tech conference gives start-ups a lift

This content was published on Feb 8, 2008 Some 650 people from forty countries attended the annual event that explores “the social impact of new technologies” and aims to give budding entrepreneurs a helping hand. That was twice as many as attended the first edition in 2006. Over three days, visitors took part in a series of workshops, lectures, discussions, art events and…

Swiss experiments head out to space

This content was published on Feb 7, 2008 Swiss firms, researchers and the government all have a stake in the science module, which took off from the Kennedy space centre in Florida on Thursday. Columbus was originally supposed to head to the ISS in 2004, but its flight was delayed after the shuttle Columbia burnt up on re-entry in 2003. The lab should…

Drugs could reduce Parkinson’s risk

This content was published on Feb 7, 2008 Christoph Meier of Basel University and colleagues claim their research suggests that long-term exposure to so-called calcium channel blockers could be beneficial. Their study, published in the journal Neurology, used data from a British medical database on more than five million people and involved 7,374 men and women over 40, half of whom had the…

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Swiss gives New York City taxis a new face

This content was published on Feb 5, 2008 Since the end of January, all 13,000 NYC cabs now sport a modern hybrid logo, part of one of the biggest changes to their appearance since 1970. But the new design is not to everyone’s liking. Claudia Christen from the village of Toffen, near Bern, is extremely proud to have been involved in such a…

Swiss develop food pyramid for athletes

This content was published on Feb 1, 2008 The pyramid, which was presented at a conference on applied sports nutrition at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich on Friday, also forms the core of a new Federal Sport Office book on the subject. Classic food pyramids set out optimal nutrition guidelines for each food category with carbohydrates as well as fruit and…

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