News Science&Tech ‘Year of extremes’ for shrinking Swiss glaciers in 2018: study Posted on November 2, 2018 Despite an exceptionally snow-filled winter, Swiss glaciers have lost 2.5 percent of their volume this year, according to a report on Tuesday which dubbed 2018 “a year of extremes”. This year’s record-breaking temperatures have greatly contributed to the loss of “a fifth of (the glaciers’) volume over the past decade”, according to the annual study on the state of the … Continue Reading
News Science&Tech Ten years of Large Hadron Collider discoveries below Swiss countryside are just the start of decoding the universe Posted on October 29, 2018 The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, has led to key breakthroughs in science, including the discovery of Higgs boson, writes Todd Adams, professor of physics at Florida State University. Ten years! Ten years since the start of operations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most complex machines ever created. The LHC is the world’s … Continue Reading
News Science&Tech Scientist angers CERN with ‘offensive’ address on women and science Posted on October 24, 2018 Europe’s physics lab CERN on Monday disavowed a lecture by an invited scientist who claimed physics was “built by men”, and accused women of demanding specialist jobs without suitable qualifications. The presentation by Alessandro Strumia of Pisa University was delivered Friday at the Geneva lab during a workshop on the relationship between high energy theory and gender. The presentation — … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Largest Facebook hack attributed to spammers Posted on October 18, 2018 The attack by which hackers gained access to data from 30 million Facebook users is unforeseen consequences of spammers activity. The backdoor was accidentally discovered and only later used by hackers. Initially it would be a group that wants to earn some income through misleading advertisements. That’s what researchers think of the latest security breach of the largest social network. Continue Reading
News Science&Tech US researcher blasts Swiss magazine’s sexist depiction Posted on October 12, 2018 Kate Darling, an expert in robot ethics, has criticized Swiss magazine Bilanz after it published an article that made reference to her cleavage. In a piece profiling the research specialist, who holds a doctorate from ETH Zurich, Bilanz wrote that Darling gave lectures “with a deep cleavage and tight imitation leather pants”. Darling, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continue Reading
News Science&Tech Swiss scientists struggle to find people who are scared of snakes Posted on October 7, 2018 The University of Basel is struggling to find participants for a study into how to reduce fear of snakes but not for the reason you might expect. The team behind the study from the university’s department for cognitive neuroscience are hoping to recruit around 90 people aged 18 to 35 to take part in the study. Researchers are offering 120 … Continue Reading
News Science&Tech Switzerland’s first ‘solar highway’ a step closer to reality Posted on October 2, 2018 Swiss firm Servipier has passed an important milestone in its ambitious plans to cover Swiss freeways with solar panels. The Zug-based company has now received the green light from the Swiss Federal Roads Office (Fedro) to run a pilot project on a stretch of the A9 freeway in the sun-drenched canton of Valais. The plan would see at least 1.6 … Continue Reading
News Science&Tech Switzerland is rapidly losing its snow (and climate change is probably to blame) Posted on September 27, 2018 A new study based on analysis of satellite images shows how much snow cover Switzerland has lost in the last 20 years. Although Switzerland’s mountain areas saw record snow fall in the winter of 2017–18, the country is rapidly losing its snow cover and global warming is probably the cause, a new study suggests. While just over a third of … Continue Reading
News Science&Tech Swiss-built space camera captures aftermath of huge dust storm on Mars Posted on September 20, 2018 A special Mars camera developed at the University of Bern has sent back a dramatic image of the surface of the planet after a recent planet-wide dust storm. The image was captured on September 2nd by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) which is on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter 400 kilometres above the surface of Mars. … Continue Reading
Science&Tech Lausanne scientists step up search for alien life Posted on September 14, 2018 Swiss and Belgian researchers say they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant planets. Until now, scientists have tried to find signs of extraterrestrial life by listening for sounds that might be emitted from an alien world, by scanning the skies with potent telescopes and by sending robotic probes and rovers … Continue Reading
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