Cluster: Science

Researchers find 135 pesticides in Swiss streams and rivers

Research frontiers

Researchers find 135 pesticides in Swiss rivers

This content was published on Oct 2, 2025 Researchers detect 135 pesticides in Swiss rivers, some exceeding safety limits.

Swiss AI

Is AI for sign language promising or futile?

This content was published on Oct 2, 2025 Labs and start-ups in Switzerland are working on using AI to advance sign language interpretation, but they face many challenges.

Space research

Swiss space research to get CHF6 million boost

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Switzerland to support research and innovation space projects with CHF6 million.

Scientist Florian Krauss with ice core sample

Glaciers & permafrost

Frozen clues: how Antarctic ice reveals our climate past

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Researchers in Bern study 1.2-million-year-old Antarctic ice. Discover how ancient air bubbles reveal the secrets of Earth’s climate history.

Scepticism and fear of AI are particularly strong among older people.

Swiss AI

How AI influenced Switzerland’s vote on e-ID

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Distrust in AI and fear of data abuse by private companies are among the main concerns of Swiss voters.

Climate solutions

Why melting glaciers affect us all

Alpine glaciers could disappear by the end of the century. The consequences will be felt not only in the Swiss Alps but all over the planet.

The ice sample extracted at a depth of 2,492 metres in Antarctica is ready for analysis.

Glaciers & permafrost

Swiss science seeks answers to climate change in Antarctic ice

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Researchers in Bern are studying some of the oldest ice samples on the planet. They want to shed light on one of the main mysteries of the Earth's climate.

The Clariden Glacier in the Swiss Central Alps in September 2025.

Glaciers & permafrost

Alpine glaciers are melting even on the highest peaks

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Swiss glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume in ten years. Climate change is accelerating their melting even at higher altitudes.

Swiss democracy

Two initiatives on wind turbine construction launched in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 30, 2025 Two initiatives related to wind turbine construction have received the required number of signatures to be put to voters.