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Studying how a broker’s brain works

This content was published on Oct 14, 2007 swissinfo talked to Bossaerts, a leading expert in neuroeconomics – the study of how we make financial choices – about his recent appointment as professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The American, who also teaches at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech), says he is moving to Lausanne for the “excellent…

Researchers try to defuse African time bomb

This content was published on Oct 12, 2007 The threat in the Lake Kivu area comes from billions of cubic metres of gas dissolved deep underwater that could kill large numbers of people if it were to escape. The aim of the Rwandan government project is to extract methane from the lake, which straddles the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, to…

“The Truth” earns Gore Nobel Peace Prize

This content was published on Oct 12, 2007 Swiss climate researchers have hailed the decision, saying it is also a recognition of their work and that it will boost efforts to combat global warming. Gore and the IPCC were honoured on Friday for their efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for fighting it.…

World’s oldest Sauropod footprints uncovered

This content was published on Oct 10, 2007 The find on a rocky, almost vertical mountainside in the southeastern Swiss Alps, is also much older than the similar track discoveries in the Jura mountain range in the west of the country. The Sauropod footprints were first spotted a year ago on Tinzenhorn mountain in the Ela nature park by the schoolteacher and amateur…

New climate centre boosts Bern’s credentials

This content was published on Oct 9, 2007 The Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research aims to encourage a multidisciplinary approach to the study of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. “With the [new] centre, we want to further strengthen those areas in which we are already doing top international research,” Bern geography professor Martin Grosjean told swissinfo. They…

Welfare state expert wins top science prize

This content was published on Oct 9, 2007 But 39-year-old Giuliano Bonoli, a professor of social policy at Lausanne University, tells swissinfo these systems should not be dismantled. The Latsis award, worth SFr100,000 ($79,000), is one of the most renowned research accolades in Switzerland and is presented each year by the National Science Foundation. It honours the outstanding scientific achievements of a researcher…

Skype gives Swiss investigators a headache

This content was published on Oct 8, 2007 Investigators are currently pursuing dozens of drug-related cases where Skype has been used for communications purposes. But the firm is keeping quiet over the issue. Skype software lets computer users talk to each other for free and make cheap calls to mobiles and landlines. But unlike other voice-over-internet services, its calls are heavily encrypted using…

Swiss women losing out in the workplace

This content was published on Oct 8, 2007 Management consultant Sonja A. Buholzer explains to swissinfo where the shortcomings are and what is at stake. The latest figures on workforce participation published by the Federal Statistics Office show once again that Switzerland is successful at attracting people into work. In comparison with the European Union and the other industrialised countries, Swiss women are…

Interior history

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Threat of punishment can deter bad behaviour

This content was published on Oct 3, 2007 Using scanning technology, the scientists were able to show which parts of the brain react to the threat of punishment, highlighting that damage to these regions might lead to antisocial behaviour. The study, published on Wednesday in the brain research journal Neuron, aimed to understand the effects of potential punishment on the decision-making process. “Our…

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