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End of the road for Geneva’s squats?

This content was published on Jul 20, 2007 It will end nearly 20 years of Rhino, which was set up to promote communal housing in the city where there has long been a shortage of accommodation. The proprietor of the building and the lawyer for the squatters put their cases to a magistrate earlier this week. The looming eviction also spells the end…

Researchers find three genes resistant to HIV

This content was published on Jul 19, 2007 They say the findings should aid the search for a vaccine to boost the effects of the genes and help the body’s immune system overcome infection. The results, published on Thursday in the journal Science, stem from the first ever study analysing how the human genome responds to the virus that causes Aids. “We found…

Army recruitment gets personal

This content was published on Jul 17, 2007 But training a new soldier comes at a great cost to the taxpayer, so the Swiss Army has been using a new method to ensure that those who are unfit for military service are weeded out before they reach boot camp. Before the new recruitment process started being phased in 2003, 20 to 30 per…

Blooming lovely

This content was published on Jul 16, 2007

The power of climate change

This content was published on Jul 16, 2007

Finding the heavenly key

This content was published on Jul 16, 2007 A new cutting-edge experiment aims to discover how exactly cosmic rays and the Sun may influence the formation of low-level clouds, and possibly climate change. More than two centuries ago, the British Astronomer Royal William Herschel noted a correlation between sunspots – an indicator of solar activity – and the price of wheat in England.…

Researchers unlock climate secrets

This content was published on Jul 16, 2007 Beniston heads a research group at Geneva University on climate change and climate impacts. swissinfo: What are the strong points of Swiss research on climate? Martin Beniston: First of all you have up to 70 researchers in paleoclimatology who reconstruct past climates, from several hundred thousand years ago to the last century. Thomas Stocker and…

Six killed in avalanche on Jungfrau

This content was published on Jul 12, 2007 Two rope teams of three climbers were hit by an avalanche on the southwest flank of the Jungfrau peak, the Swiss air rescue service Rega said. “The people who were in the avalanche were killed,” said spokesman Thomas Kenner. The accident took place at 10am local time, 90 kilometres southeast of the capital Bern. The…

Unions call for more holidays for workers

This content was published on Jul 12, 2007 Trade union body Travail.Suisse announced on Thursday that it therefore wanted to launch a people’s initiative for a statutory six weeks off for every worker. Employers have described the demands as “unnecessary and exaggerated”. Working life is not a sprint but a marathon, said Travail.Suisse in a statement. Demands on workers are higher than ever.…

Greenhouse sceptics confounded by solar study

This content was published on Jul 11, 2007 Experts say the findings add to a growing body of evidence that human activity and not natural causes lies behind rising average world temperatures, which are this year expected to reach their second-highest level since records began in the 1860s. If anything, solar variations over the past 20 years should have had a cooling effect,…

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