Storys aus BERN

Zentrum Paul Klee

Preview 2025

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Animal experiments: SNSF warns of consequences of a ban

Bern (ots) - The popular initiative in favour of banning animal experiments would significantly weaken Switzerland as a centre of research. Furthermore, animal testing could be relocated to countries with much less stringent welfare rules. The popular initiative "Ja zur tierversuchsfreien Zukunft" (Yes to a future without animal testing) aims to ban animal experiments in Switzerland. This would massively restrict human ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

She uses light to modify matter

Swissmint

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Latest special coin to be issued: the new 25-franc gold coin pays homage to earlier gold coins that were never brought into circulation

Zentrum Paul Klee

Preview 2025

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Preventing GPS-caused traffic chaos

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

International law with cantonal twists

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Prize winner Cristina Murer investigated tomb recycling in late antiquity

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Full-time employees face higher risk of cancer

Bern (ots) - Working at 100% is linked to a higher incidence of the disease, according to an SNSF-funded study. Self-employed men and women who stay at home fared best, but the explanation is not as straightforward as it might seem. Some of the risk factors for cancer are well known - smoking, alcohol, a sedentary lifestyle - while others are a bit harder to explain. For example, work. As part of the completed, ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Breathing and heartbeat influence perception

Bern (ots) - A study funded by the SNSF highlights previously unknown links between the body and the brain. The findings of this research carried out at the University of Fribourg show how our bodily rhythms affect our visual perception. Taking a deep breath to get a clearer picture is perhaps more effective than you might think. Breathing has a physiological impact on the perception of visual stimuli. This is what ...

SRG SSR

Bakel Walden is leaving SRG SSR

Swissmint

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Latest special coin to be issued: the 20-franc "Switzerland" silver coin in honour of Switzerland

SRG SSR

Edi Estermann named Head of Communication for ESC 2025

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Nanoplastics put stress on trees and impair photosynthesis

Bern (ots) - Spruce and deciduous trees take up nano-sized microscopic plastic particles via their roots. These can reach the leaves and needles where they have an effect on photosynthesis. The exact mechanism behind this is not yet fully understood. It is well known that more and more plastic waste is ending up in soil and bodies of water. Researchers are particularly concerned about tiny micro- and nano-sized particles. ...

Zentrum Paul Klee

REMINDER: Media preview «Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism»

Zentrum Paul Klee

Exhibition: Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock! (20.9.2024–2.2.2025)

Zentrum Paul Klee

Kunstmuseum Bern of the future: The result of the architectural competition

Swissmint

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Latest special coin to be issued: "200 years of the SSV" gold coin in honour of 200th anniversary

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Thawing permafrost in the Alps

SRG SSR

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The two finalist cities are revealed

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

The tumour hacker

Zentrum Paul Klee

Exhibition: Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism

Swiss Fibre Net AG

Swiss Fibre Net and Swiss FibreCo strengthen the expansion of FTTH fibre optic networks

Bern (ots) - Swiss Fibre Net AG, present in the Swiss FTTH fibre optic market for over 10 years as a guarantor of infrastructure competition, will be active in the planning, construction, and operation of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) fibre optic networks through its subsidiary Swiss FibreCo AG (SFC) and will simultaneously optimize its own organization. According to ...

SRG SSR

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ESC 2025: the core project team is in place

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Victims of a tsunami or human sacrifice? What happened to these 20 Celts 2000 years ago?

Zentrum Paul Klee

Fokus. Architecture with Klee

SRG SSR

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Executive producers named

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Back pain sufferers need patience more than anything else

Bern (ots) - Temporary complaint or chronic affliction: a research team funded by the SNSF has identified typical trajectories for back pain. Psychosocial factors play a smaller role than expected. Back pain is a widespread condition: at least once in their lives, almost 85% of people will experience pain in the area of the lumbar spine, in other words between the bottom rib and the tailbone. Treating this correctly is ...

SRG SSR

Eurovision Song Contest 2025: now it's up to the cities

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Research funders from around the world meet in Interlaken

Bern (ots) - The Global Research Council in Switzerland! The conference was hosted by the SNSF together with its partner organisation FONSTI from Ivory Coast. The main topic of this year's conference was sustainability in research. The annual conference of the Global Research Council (GRC) at the end of May in Interlaken brought together 60 research funders from 53 countries. The institutions that participate regularly in ...