With startups in the Swiss news on an almost daily basis, launching your own business has never been trendier. But exactly how easy does Switzerland make it? The Local’s Caroline Bishop finds out.
Swiss researchers have concluded that the urban environment likely plays a key role in obesity levels of individuals based on a study of residents in the city of Lausanne.
Switzerland's top-ranked universities, the federal institutes of technology in Zurich (ETH) and Lausanne (EPFL) created a total of 43 startup companies in 2015.
An ambitious project led by researchers in Switzerland to digitally map the brain released on Thursday its first results,
showing a complex view of how the brain is wired.
Switzerland’s federal institute of technology, ETH Zurich, now ranks among the top ten universities in the world, according to the authoritative 2015/16 QS World University Rankings, released on Tuesday.
The Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich remains the top university in continental Europe according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings for 2015, released on Wednesday.
Officials on Monday laid the first stone for a new 39-million-franc ($41-million) building at Lausanne’s federal institute of technology (EPFL) that aims to bring together science, art and “society”.
European students are shunning Switzerland in droves, according to an inter-canton organization which places the blame on the February 9th anti-immigration vote and the EU’s subsequent block on Switzerland’s participation in student mobility programme Erasmus.
Switzerland’s two federal institutes of technology, ETH Zurich and EPFL, rate among the world’s top 20 universities in the latest QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings for 2014, published on Tuesday.
The Human Brain Project, a mammoth research project directed by the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), is in danger of dying because of last month’s vote by Swiss citizens to curb immigration in Switzerland.
An amputee with a bionic hand has for the first time been able to feel the texture and shape of objects in his grasp, researchers in Lausanne said on Wednesday.
Switzerland’s two federal institutes of technology, ETH Zurich and EPFL in Lausanne, are among the top 20 universities in the world, according to a report released on Tuesday.
A nine-year-old gifted student is making news in German-speaking Switzerland for his bid to register for courses at Zurich university ETH, the federal institute of technology.
A snap of a finger, a handful of scattered microphones and a computer algorithm are all it takes to create an accurate three-dimensional map of a room, Swiss and US researchers said on Monday.
