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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Traffic noise - the enemy of our brains

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Analysing how we work

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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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Helvetas Begins Reconstruction in Ukraine

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

A quiet crisis manager

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Avoiding burnout of white blood cells

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Novel approaches to health care

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

CSI Christian Solidarity International

Genocide Warning for Nagorno Karabakh issued by human rights organizations

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

She recognises "super recognisers"

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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, ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

She wants to know how we talk about dying

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

The story of a cosmic striptease

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

The fascination of Mars

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Inertial sensors: strength in numbers

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Arguing over meat, finding comfort with friends - The emotions of the great apes

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

The discreet jihadism expert

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

Urban and rural poor are different

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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, ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

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 ...

CSI Christian Solidarity International

US - UK Split over Religious Persecution in Nigeria on Eve of Ministerial Conference / Blinken Faces Growing Pressure to Reinstate Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern"

Fürstentum Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein with good results in MONEYVAL assessment in the area of combating money laundering and terrorist financing

Vaduz (ots) - For decades, Liechtenstein has been actively engaged in the combat against money laundering and terrorist financing and has been guided by the international standard of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Since 1999, Liechtenstein has been a member state of MONEYVAL, which is a regional body ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

"Music should play a bigger part in life"