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Sweaty robot tests fabric

This content was published on Jul 21, 2009 Sam – short for Sweating Agile Thermal Manikin – was developed for use in research and industry, notably for testing fabrics. Sam is the brainchild of physicist Mark Richards and is the most evolved of the robots developed by makers, Humanikin, a spin-off of the St Gallen-based federal laboratory for material testing and research. Richards…

The first and only watch worn on the Moon

This content was published on Jul 20, 2009 All eyes were on Neil Armstrong as he became the first man to walk on the Moon – and if you were vaguely interested to see what watch he was wearing, you would have looked in vain. He left it in the Eagle lunar module because the onboard electronic timing device was not functioning correctly…

Kühne & Nagel feels freight market slump

This content was published on Jul 20, 2009 Gerard van Kesteren, chief financial officer of the Swiss-based firm, said on Monday he expected the global sea freight market to contract by 15 per cent while the world air freight market would fall by 20 per cent. He also said that he saw a rise in freight rates, but this would only have an…

Can Sunday shopping help beat the crisis?

This content was published on Jul 19, 2009 Sunday shopping in particular is still frowned upon in many parts of Switzerland. Proposals to change the situation have met with stiff opposition from the unions. Economic forecasts for Switzerland have been glum in the past months, with reports of falling exports and a stagnating economy. The government’s solution to the current financial crisis has…

Calmy-Rey to meet Clinton before UBS deadline

This content was published on Jul 19, 2009 Calmy-Rey told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that she is scheduled to meet Clinton on July 31, adding that she hoped that strong ties with the US would help in finding a deal for Swiss bank UBS. The visit would take place shortly before a court hearing in a US tax evasion lawsuit against UBS…

Swiss astronaut shares memories of moon landing

This content was published on Jul 19, 2009 Claude Nicollier tells swissinfo.ch that when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the Moon 40 years ago it was like a childhood dream come true. Nicollier joined the United States space agency, Nasa, in 1980 to become a member of the team of future space shuttle specialists. He later took part…

How an insect specialist saved millions of lives

This content was published on Jul 18, 2009

Ski area auctioned on the internet

This content was published on Jul 18, 2009 The asking price for the resort, including ski lifts, a restaurant and après-ski area, was SFr250,000 ($232,000). Claus Dangel, director of the Winterhorn resort, confirmed to the Swiss News Agency on Saturday that an investor had been found. The person is said to be Swiss, but no other details will be given until the contract…

Builders of the Gotthard tunnel

This content was published on Jul 17, 2009 The Gotthard base tunnel is the centrepiece of a new railway line which will improve connections between northern and southern Europe. (Pictures and text: Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch)

Georg Fischer dives deeper into the red

This content was published on Jul 17, 2009 The Schaffhausen-based multinational had reported a profit of SFr109 million for the same period last year. Of the company’s three divisions, the automotive and machine divisions showed the most dramatic decline, sliding 48 and 46 per cent, respectively. The automotive branch was particularly affected by the downturn in Detroit. For the entire corporation, figures for…

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