The Swiss Spiez Laboratory, which specializes in the prevention of chemical, biological and atomic warfare, was apparently attacked by a group of hackers linked to Russia’s secret service. The canton of Bern-based laboratory was apparently targeted for its role in the investigation into the Skripals’ poisoning in the UK. The former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were …

The US Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to Roche for its FoundationOne CDx personalized diagnostic cancer test, the Swiss group said on Monday. Roche said the FDA had approved the test helping doctors understand the genetic profile of patients’ tumors to enable better-targeted therapies and clinical tests. “The approval of FoundationOne CDx represents a major advance …

The vast majority of people in Switzerland consider climate change a man-made phenomenon, yet only a minority say they are doing something concrete themselves to help combat it. According to a survey by the Link market research institute, reported by news agency ATS on Thursday, 85 percent believe that climate change is real. Of those, 72 percent think it is …

Swiss glaciers have lost three percent of their volume in the past year, say experts, the third biggest loss in any one year since the beginning of records a century ago. In total 1.5 billion cubic metres of ice was lost from the 20 Swiss glaciers measured during the period October 2016 to September 2017, said the Swiss Academy of …

Switzerland’s latest Nobel laureate said he had to overcome a fear of the dark, and a poor record in school, before reaching the apex of science. “Since I was a child I wanted to become a scientist,” Dubochet told Swiss public broadcaster RTS in an interview. The Swiss Nobel laureate, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 with two …

Newborn babies born with jaundice are usually treated with phototherapy in an incubator, but now researchers in Switzerland have come up with a nicer way of delivering treatment that allows the infant to remain clothed and warm in a parent’s arms. Researchers at the Federal laboratory for the testing of materials and research (Empa) have invented a luminous blue fabric …

The past year was one of the ten warmest since Swiss records began in 1864, according to MeteoSuisse. As a whole the year was 0.6-0.7 degrees warmer than normal across Switzerland, the federal weather office said in its round-up of the year’s weather, earning 2016 a place in the top ten mildest years on record. The year started with a …