Scientists from two Swiss universities on Tuesday launched zero-gravity experiments in a specially equipped Airbus A310 plane that took off from Dübendorf air base in the canton of Zurich.
About 5,000 students and teachers at a Zurich university were told to lock themselves in their classrooms during a security alert on Thursday prompted by a false alarm of a shooting on campus.
Banks could change a business culture that “favours dishonest behaviour" by requiring their employees to take a professional oath of honesty and training programs in ethics, researchers from the University of Zurich say.
Red-faced administrators at the University of Zurich’s faculty of law are having to rethink a decision to allow students to take exams online after a server crash foiled one such experiment on Monday.
Andreas Fischer, the rector (president) of the University of Zurich, has resigned amid controversy over the firing of a professor who leaked internal information to news media about another professor, Christopher Mörgeli, accused of not being stringent enough with doctoral students in the medical history department.
Scientists from the University of Zurich have put in question the history of man after uncovering a skull 1.85 million years old with colleagues from Georgia, where it was found.
A ten-year-old boy who passed a Swiss final high school maths exam for fun is taking a special course in the subject at prestigious Zurich University, the institution said on Wednesday.
Researchers from the University of Zurich say they killed 18 fawns in the canton of Bern because they were fitted with flawed tracking collars that would have caused the young animals great suffering if they were allowed to live.
Researchers in Switzerland say they have made microchips that imitate the way our brains process information, unlocking some of the mystery around how the world's most efficient computer functions.
Zurich city police are investigating the bizarre death of an 18-year-old man who was found jammed in the opening of a tilting window in a building at the University of Zurich.
<p>A study carried out by the University of Zurich in Shark Bay, Australia found that male dolphins bond with one another in ways that are almost as complex as humans.</p>
