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 …