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Traffic noise - the enemy of our brains
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Mummies provide the key to reconstruct the climate of the ancient Mediterranean
Bern (ots) - Swiss scientists are reconstructing the climate of the ancient world using small wooden artefacts hung on mummified remains. Throughout history, the earth's climate has undergone natural fluctuations. Although insignificant compared with the current crisis, these fluctuations would nevertheless have been enough to make and unmake empires. According to ...
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Analysing how we work
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The journey to school is an important time for children
Bern (ots) - Going to school with friends is a precious time that offers numerous opportunities to learn and also unwind, according to children who were asked for their thoughts on this subject. Parents who do not accompany their children to school sometimes worry what could happen on the way. Children see things very differently: for them, the journey to school is a time of independence and socialisation that contributes ...
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Big data, big challenges
Bern (ots) - If handled responsibly, big data enables many useful applications: the National Research Programme "Big Data" (NRP 75) of the Swiss National Science Foundation investigated the opportunities and the challenges. The use of big data can improve our everyday lives: medical care, mobility and energy efficiency, or the supply of information. At the same time, the increasing use of big data poses a challenge - in terms of safeguarding democratic processes, equal ...
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Brain scans of people with MS help us understand the effects of Covid
Bern (ots) - People affected by multiple sclerosis need to undergo regular MRI brain scans. The images are now being used to visualise the effects of a coronavirus infection. Brain fog, memory problems, loss of the sense of smell - Covid-19 affects the brain in a number of ways, yet the mechanisms behind this remain largely unknown. This is because disease-related changes in our brains are almost impossible to detect if ...
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A quiet crisis manager
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Avoiding burnout of white blood cells
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Novel approaches to health care
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Sounding the alarm in time to save endangered species
Bern (ots) - Biodiversity loss is accelerating. To identify species in urgent need of protection, scientists from Fribourg want to combine AI with data collection and engagement by citizen scientists. A few years - or sometimes even just a few weeks - can be all it takes for a plant or animal to acquire "endangered species" status. For instance, when a new road is built through a forest, the chainsaws come out and a rare ...
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She recognises "super recognisers"
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Federal Councillors don't galvanise voters in their home cantons
Bern (ots) - When a new Federal Councillor is chosen, their home canton is always a much-discussed topic. Yet the results of referendums are hardly influenced by whether the voter's own canton is represented on the Federal Council or not. Successors will shortly be chosen both for Ueli Maurer and for Simonetta Sommaruga. Ever since they announced their resignations, ...
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Improving the efficacy of antibiotics and curbing resistance
Bern (ots) - New findings from NRP 72, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, are helping to curb antibiotic resistance. In the field of new antibiotics, however, structures needed for translating results into practice are lacking. Worldwide, more and more pathogens are becoming resistant to today's antibiotics. As antibiotics lose their efficacy, infections that were once easy to treat can give rise to fatal ...
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She wants to know how we talk about dying
mehrCompetition authority paves the way for innovative fibre optic industry solution
Bern (ots) - Over the past few months, the Secretariat of the Competition Commission (COMCO) has been assessing the SFN shunting model developed by Swiss Fibre Net AG (SFN). It has checked whether the industry solution satisfies the competition law requirements for network access. The COMCO secretariat has now approved the proposal under antitrust law. The option of ...
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The story of a cosmic striptease
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Patients who want to decide by themselves - and those who would rather not decide at all
Bern (ots) - Not all patients desire the same amount of say in their medical treatment. Healthcare professionals should be aware of these different needs and take them into account. When it comes to determining next steps in hospital treatment, patients will frequently say: "I can't decide that. You're the doctor; you decide." Some patients, however, prefer to decide ...
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mehrLuciana Vaccaro elected as new president of swissuniversities
Bern (ots) - On October 20, 2022, the plenary assembly of swissuniversities elected Luciana Vaccaro, Rector of the Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), as President of swissuniversities. Luciana Vaccaro is elected for the period from February 2023 to July 2024, succeeding Yves Flückiger. As Yves Flückiger’s term of office as Rector of the Université de Genève ends in mid-July 2023, he will not ...
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The fascination of Mars
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Inertial sensors: strength in numbers
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Arguing over meat, finding comfort with friends - The emotions of the great apes
mehrCylus and HaslerRail Partner to Provide a Comprehensive Railway Cybersecurity Solution for ERTMS Systems
Tel Aviv, Israel and Bern, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Partnership between global leaders in rail cybersecurity and on-board electronics combines threat detection and visibility into ERTMS systems, seamlessly securing train control Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, today announced its partnership ...
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The discreet jihadism expert
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Broad-based Swiss Covid-19 research
Bern (ots) - During the coronavirus pandemic, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) supported a total of 114 Covid-19 research projects, for which it used funding of over CHF 45 million. In the National Research Programme "Covid-19" (NRP 78), around 200 researchers are working in 28 projects with a total budget of CHF 20 million. Another research programme on Covid-19 is about to start. It was the first time the ...
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Sensors and actuators made from wood may be the green electronics of the future
Bern (ots) - Sustainable electronic components can be made from wood with the help of a novel process that uses a laser to engrave electrically conductive structures on veneers. Non-biodegradable electronic waste continues to accumulate year after year. For that reason, making electronic components at least partly from a natural raw material like wood seems an obvious ...
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Urban and rural poor are different
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She wants to bridge the human-nature divide
Bern (ots) - Johanna Jacobi is Assistant Professor for Agroecological Transitions at ETH Zurich. Through her scientific work, she aims to bring us closer to ecology. A discussion. "I've always been fascinated by plants and insects. When I was little, I collected lots of things. Sometimes I'd let my spiders out onto the kitchen table. My parents weren't too pleased," she smiles. It's hardly surprising that Johanna Jacobi, ...
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Should we rely on other tree species to adapt to global warming?
Bern (ots) - Pubescent oak trees thrive even at higher temperatures, in part because they are active earlier in the year. Researchers supported by the SNSF put the trees of the future to the test. As trees grow, they absorb ever greater amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. Consequently, the health of trees both determines climate and is determined by it. During ...
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