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A big future for the nano world

This content was published on Sep 5, 2006 For Swiss businesses keen to tap into its “unlimited innovation potential”, the importance of partnerships with universities carrying out research into nanoscience is seen as crucial. A conference on Monday hosted by the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich threw light on the latest developments in “one of the key technologies of the 21st century”.…

Campaign offers parents a helping hand

This content was published on Sep 5, 2006 The Swiss Federation for Parent Education wants to raise awareness among mothers and fathers that parenting skills are not innate, but must be learnt. The campaign, “Strength through education”, wants to combat the misconception that children who turn to vandalism, violence, crime or drugs do so because their parents’ marriage is in crisis. The federation…

Space probe makes lunar crash landing

This content was published on Sep 4, 2006 Smart-1, a washing machine-sized cube, tested new space technology including a Swiss camera, which gathered information on the moon’s composition. A small flash illuminated the lunar surface on Sunday as the European Space Agency’s (ESA) unmanned spacecraft crashed into the near side of the moon in the “Lake of Excellence” region at about 7,200 km/h.…

Conference highlights earthquake threat

This content was published on Sep 4, 2006 The five-day meeting, which opened on Monday, has attracted more than 1,000 seismologists and earthquake engineers in what is the first major European gathering of its kind. According to the Swiss Seismological Service, there have been more than 10,000 earthquakes felt in Switzerland over the past 800 years. Half a dozen of them have registered…

Mr Fix-it solves problems of the Swiss abroad

This content was published on Sep 3, 2006 Whether handling major crises or simple issues affecting Swiss nationals overseas, there’s never a dull moment in Börlin’s working day. Börlin, who took over the department at the end of May, explains why helping Swiss citizens who run into trouble abroad is always a matter for the state to deal with. swissinfo: You lived abroad…

Researchers find clue to antibiotic resistance

This content was published on Sep 1, 2006 The researchers say their findings could eventually lead to new ways of overcoming drug-resistant bacteria, but warn that it is not a solution by itself. Bacteria resistant to drugs have become more widespread in recent years, especially in hospitals. This has been due mostly to continuous use of antibiotics and detergents in the clinical setting.…

Throwing light on the age of the universe

This content was published on Aug 31, 2006 The researchers used a simple new technique based on gravitational lensing, which allows scientists to probe distant parts of the cosmos, to determine that the universe is 13-and-a-half billion years old. The results of their research will be published in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters”, Zurich University announced on Wednesday. Knowing the age of the universe…

Global warming pushes science to the limits

This content was published on Aug 31, 2006 There was a sense of urgency at the International Disaster Reduction Conference in Davos this week and a belief that an integrated approach was needed to prevent huge loss of life. “We observe that the threat is not necessarily increasing but is definitely changing,” geography researcher Christian Huggel of Zurich University told swissinfo. “People have…

Stem cell breakthrough won’t cure all ills

This content was published on Aug 30, 2006 But the discovery is seen as more important for its scientific value than for the ethical dilemmas that it has supposedly resolved. Since stem cells were first extracted successfully from an embryo in 1998, the field has been dogged by concerns over the ethics of killing a “potential human being” for research purposes. Swiss law…

Science and technology under the microscope

This content was published on Aug 28, 2006 This was the warning behind an initiative launched jointly on Monday in the Swiss capital, Bern, by Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin and Economics Minister Doris Leuthard. The main aim of NaTech Education is to integrate an understanding of technology and the natural sciences – which deal with the natural world such as physics, chemistry, biology…

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