Given there is no Covid-19 vaccine at the present time, contact tracing is believed to be an effective, though complex, strategy for breaking transmission chains and controlling the spread of disease. How will it work in Switzerland?
Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) has been named the seventh best university in the world in the newly released 2019 QS world university rankings.
Switzerland's EPFL federal technology institute has been named the most international university in the world in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) ranking.
Members of the public can watch drone racing, learn how to fly a drone and get an insight into the latest drone research in a new event at EPFL, the federal technology institute in Lausanne, this weekend.
Scientists at Lausanne’s federal technology institute EPFL have discovered that alpine streams emit higher levels of carbon-dioxide (CO2) after a warmer than normal winter.
Swiss researchers said on Monday they have developed a wireless camera system to monitor vital signs in premature babies, a move that could replace uncomfortable and highly inaccurate skin sensors.
Switzerland made more European patent applications per capita in 2016 than any other country, confirming its long-held status as a world-leading innovator.
The Iranian researcher at Swiss federal technology institute EPFL finally arrived in Boston on Friday night a week after she was banned from entering the US to take up a new job at a Harvard Medical School lab.
Federal technology institute EPFL has developed a new app for residents of the city and canton of Geneva to record the sounds they hear around them in order to help evaluate the region’s quality of life.
Switzerland’s two federal technology institutes have been named the most international universities in the world by the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE), which warns the standing of US universities is under threat from US immigration policy.
An Iranian scientist living in Switzerland was among those turned away from the US following President Trump’s travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries on Friday.
Researchers at Swiss federal technology institute EPFL have mimicked birds to create a drone with 'feathered' wings, making it more agile than ordinary drones.
A new device has allowed two monkeys to regain use of their paralyzed legs by transmitting brain signals wirelessly, bypassing their spinal cord lesions, a study released on Wednesday by the journal Nature said.
Pomegranate has long been considered a ‘superfood’ but without much evidence as to why, but now researchers at Lausanne’s federal technology institute EPFL have discovered the fruit could protect against one of the major causes of aging.
Researchers at Lausanne’s federal technology institute EPFL have created a robot that mimics the movement of a salamander, technology that could aid the development of therapies for paraplegics and amputees.
The future of Swiss scientific research is in danger should the country fail to solve its problems with the EU because of Brexit, a leading economist has warned.
Lausanne's EPFL has been ranked the fourth most innovative in Europe in the first ever Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities ranking launched on Tuesday.
Researchers at Lausanne’s technology institute EPFL have developed a reusable protective suit for medical staff working with infectious diseases such as Ebola in hot climates.
Lausanne’s federal technology institute EPFL is once again the world’s top young university, according to the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) rankings, published on Wednesday.
