Cluster: Science

Desperate to save their children, parents become unexpected drug developers

This content was published on Dec 18, 2025 As the pharma industry turns away, parents of children with ultra-rare diseases step in to advance drug development.

Climate adaptation

Snow Compass: guiding Swiss skiing through warmer winters

This content was published on Dec 17, 2025 To help determine the best path forward, Swiss ski resorts are being assisted by Snow Compass, a forecasting tool created by Swiss scientists that uses data to assess climate impacts.

Glaciers & permafrost

Understanding the Blatten disaster

This content was published on Dec 17, 2025 Experts are trying to better understand how the unprecedented Blatten collapse occurred - and how to better anticipate the next one.

View of the Rhone Glacier, near Goms, in Switzerland. Parts of the glacier are covered by sheets to protect them from melting.

Glaciers & permafrost

Study: at least half of world’s glaciers to disappear by 2100

This content was published on Dec 15, 2025 Up to 4,000 glaciers a year could disappear as a result of climate change, warn Swiss researchers in a new study published on Monday.

Swiss federal energy strategy: targets for 2035 are a long way off.

Climate adaptation

Renewable power growth must accelerate, warns Swiss energy office

This content was published on Dec 15, 2025 Switzerland needs to double its current use of renewable energies - not including hydropower - to meet national targets set for 2035.

Climate adaptation

‘Snow Compass’ guides Swiss resorts through declining snowfall

This content was published on Dec 15, 2025 As the Swiss Alps warm, resorts are being pushed to rethink their strategies and those at lower altitudes must look for alternatives to skiing. A new scientific online tool may offer solutions.

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Climate solutions

‘We cannot rely only on judges to drive the ecological transition’

This content was published on Dec 12, 2025 More people are turning to courts to push states and companies to do more for the climate. What’s been the result? We asked one of the world’s leading experts.

Professor Johan Gaume from ETH Zurich demonstrates his 3D simulation tool that accurately modelled the 10-million-cubic-metre rock-ice release in Blatten earlier this year.

Climate adaptation

Unstable slopes and warming peaks: Scientists race to understand Blatten collapse

This content was published on Dec 12, 2025 The collapse of the Birch Glacier that wiped out the Swiss village of Blatten has triggered an unprecedented scientific effort to understand how it happened – and what might come next.

Human rights

AI is big business at Europe’s borders

This content was published on Dec 11, 2025 Loopholes for research and growing militarisation of asylum policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities.

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