Science&Tech NAGRA will build a facility in North Laegern Posted on September 13, 2022 Switzerland confirmed on Monday that its favorite place for a 20 billion Swiss francs ($20.94 billion) underground nuclear waste repository is an area north of Zurich, close to the border with Germany. The company behind the project to store the country’s nuclear waste for at least the next 200,000 years, the National Radioactive waste storage Cooperative (NAGRA), has proposed the … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Sea level may rise 10 cm in 2100 Posted on August 30, 2022 Icebergs floating in Baffin Bay near pituitary, Greenland, on July 15, 2022, captured from the ground during a NASA mission with scientists from the University of Texas to measure the melting of Arctic sea ice. New observations from ICESAT-2 show that sea ice in the Arctic has become significantly thinner in three years. A massive ice sheet in Greenland is … Continue Reading
Science&Tech You can’t hide from the status updates on Kilimanjaro Posted on August 18, 2022 Mountaineers can now use high-speed internet on Kilimanjaro. Tanzania has ensured that this is available on the world’s highest free-standing mountain. The Tanzanian Minister of Information calls the installation at an altitude of 3,720 meters “historic”. Kilimanjaro reaches up to 5,895 meters above sea level. The mountain is home to three volcanoes: two extinct and one dormant. “Previously, it was … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Chinese tech giants uncover their internals to the government Posted on August 16, 2022 Major Chinese tech companies such as Tencent and ByteDance have shared details of their algorithms with the Chinese government for the first time, Bloomberg News Agency reports Monday. The government wants to prevent misuse of user data in this way. Chinese tech giants have been required by new regulations since March to hand over information about their algorithms to the … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Swiss Alps become more and more ‘Tuscany’ Posted on August 9, 2022 As a result of climate change, the landscape of the Swiss Plateau is becoming increasingly similar to that of the Italian region of Tuscany, warns the Swiss foundation for landscape protection (FP). The foundation points out the consequences of this ‘toscanisation’ for the tourist capital of the landscape. The ever longer periods of heat and drought over the past twenty … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Switzerland measures record altitude of 5,184 meters for temperature of 0 degrees Celsius Posted on July 26, 2022 For the first time, the Swiss Meteorological Service has measured a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius at an altitude of 5,184 meters. Over the past few days, a stream of warm and hot air has drifted over Switzerland from the southwest. The previous record was July 20, 1995. Then a temperature of 0 degrees was measured at an altitude of … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Beznau nuclear power plant limits power output to reduce Aare warming Posted on July 20, 2022 Switzerland, like many other European countries, has to cope with a heat wave today. Temperatures are rising so high that a Swiss nuclear power plant has reduced energy production to prevent the temperature of the river whose water is used to cool the reactors from rising too quickly. This could be dangerous for aquatic life. In Switzerland, the temperature today … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Switzerland puts ‘water battery’ with capacity of 20GWh into operation Posted on July 7, 2022 Switzerland is starting to use a huge ‘water battery’ for storing energy in water reservoirs. The so-called Battery has a capacity equivalent to 20GWh and should be able to supply around 900,000 households with electricity. A water battery is a way to store energy through two water reservoirs at different heights, explains Euronews. Excess electricity, for example generated by windmills … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Higgs boson discovery marks ten years anniversary Posted on July 5, 2022 On July 4, 2022, it will be ten years since physicists at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. After a search of almost fifty years, the missing elementary particle from the standard model had finally been found. Peter Higgs already predicted in 1964 the existence of this subatomic particle, which is responsible for the mass of atoms. But … Continue Reading
Science&Tech WhiteBIT CEO, Volodymyr Nosov, explained why the traditional world eventually will have to seek ways to coexist with the digital one Posted on June 28, 2022 The concepts of meta-universe and the online world are playing an increasingly important role in the life of mankind every day, gaining leverage and in the future will radically change the history of human civilization. The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba and the CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange WhiteBIT, Volodymyr Nosov discussed this in … Continue Reading
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