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.
The world's biggest particle collider was back in operation on Sunday after a two-year upgrade, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.
The federal government has approved interim measures to fund Swiss researchers participating in the EU’s Horizon 2020 who have been denied funding from Brussels.
Nearly 1,500 years ago a tsunami triggered by a rockfall swept Lake Geneva, engulfing its shores with a wall of water up to 13
metres high, Swiss scientists reported on Sunday.
Lab-dish tests in Switzerland have raised hopes that a soil bacterium identified nearly 60 years ago could be a "very selective killer" of the germ that causes tuberculosis, a European journal reported on Monday.
Researchers in Switzerland said on Monday a new computerized model of part of a rat's cortex predicts connections between neurons, which could help explain how the brains of mammals -- including humans -- work.
Scientists in Switzerland and the United States on Sunday said they had created a "nano-velcro" textile that offers a swift, sensitive and low-cost way of detecting mercury, a toxic and accumulative pollutant, in water and fish.
<p>Swiss and German palaeontologists have dug up fossils of turtles literally caught in the act at a German site – the first time fossilised vertebrates having sex have ever been found.</p>
<p>Groups supporting the right to hasten dying will meet in Zurich this week for a global conference on assisted suicide, reigniting the debate on dignified death.</p>
<p>A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported.</p>
<p>European and US scientists said on Monday that many meat-eating animals appear to lose their ability to taste sweet flavours over time, a finding that suggests diet plays a key role in evolution.</p>
<p>People who suffer a broken arm display changes to the anatomy and activity of their brains after just 16 days, Zurich scientists have discovered.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p>Decades of work have been devoted to the quest for a sub-atomic particle called the Higgs Boson, which may at last have been detected, scientists announced on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Strange fantasy animals invade Basel’s Sankt Johanns Park while the sky above becomes a multi-coloured canvas. Reporter Meritxell Mir is neither dreaming nor on drugs; she's just participating in a pioneering new project.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" lang="EN-GB">Scientists at Lausanne University have concluded that the human brain develops slower than human testicles, and that human brain activity is strikingly comparable to the duck-billed platypus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Physicists reported on Thursday that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos can travel faster than light, a finding that -- if verified -- would blast a hole in Einstein's theory of relativity.</span></p>
<p>Scientists have shown that modern humans have some traces of genes from Neanderthals, but a study out on Monday suggests that any breeding between the two was most likely a rare event.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 24.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) remains the best university in continental Europe, according to a ranking of the world’s top 300 universities.</span></span></p>
<p>A team of Swiss and French scientists published a study on Monday that suggests the rocking motion of a hammock improves sleep quality and helps people get to sleep faster.</p>
<p>A flowering plant has been found at analtitude of above 4,505 metres (14,780 feet) on the central Swiss alps – a European record, Basel University said on Tuesday.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swiss and US researchers have identified a strain of leprosy found in armadillos in dozens of people in the southern United States, indicating the skin disease can be transmitted directly from animals to humans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Half of some species of bats in Switzerland carry malaria, a new study has shown, in research that could help in the search for treatments for the disease.</span></p>
