Storys zum Thema Science

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Ten years of research deliver sustainable solutions across the world

Bern (ots) - The r4d programme of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss National Science Foundation is ending. It funded 57 research partnerships between Switzerland and countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Research can help solve global economic, environmental and societal problems. With this aim in mind, the Swiss Programme for ...

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A breath of fresh air for vertical wind turbines

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Preventive drone attacks based on digital traces are a grey area under international law

Bern (ots) - Identifying terrorists by analysing their online activities is an approach that is sometimes at odds with international law, especially if the outcome is death. A study has documented this problematic legal and ethical issue. These days, virtually everyone leaves footprints in the digital world. Terrorists are no exception. Intelligence agencies realised ...

Keyless

Keyless and fidentity Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Digital Security and Identity Verification

London (ots/PRNewswire) - Keyless, the leader in privacy-preserving biometric authentication, announces a strategic partnership with fidentity, the Swiss online identification and digital signature pioneer. This collaboration extends fidentity for continuous authentication across the entire identity lifecycle. Users ...

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She observes children's digital habits - and doesn't demonise smartphones

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Wie Fadenwürmer altern - und was das für die Menschen bedeuten könnte

Bern (ots) - Ein Protein reduziert die Lebenserwartung von Fadenwürmern. Diese Entdeckung wirft die Frage auf, ob es beim Menschen ebenfalls den Alterungsprozess mitbewirkt. Selbst von den am besten erforschten Genen und Proteinen kennt man noch längst nicht alle Geheimnisse. Wie das Schweizer Taschenmesser haben sie zahlreiche, teilweise unbekannte Funktionen. Mit ...

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Robot swings its way to unexplored treetops

Università degli studi di Milano - Bicocca

Early Smartphone Use in Children? Two Studies Highlight Long-Term Consequences

Milan (ots) - A group of researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca and SUPSI, by means of longitudinal data provided by INVALSI (Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System), has confirmed that early smartphone usage before the age of 12 does not bring benefits. Instead, it is associated with lower digital skills, higher problematic smartphone ...

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An architect of nano power plants

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

International Diabetes Federation and Sanofi Global Health Unit collaborate to strengthen diabetes response in 40 countries

Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - The partnership will enhance diabetes care through training aimed at building capacity among healthcare professionals in low and middle-income countries. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), in collaboration with Sanofi's Global Health Unit (GHU), is taking significant steps to ...

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Torsten Schwede appointed as new President of the SNSF Research Council from 2025

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Fishing for DNA to measure biodiversity

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Observing apes to get a better understanding of humans

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How robots make people hear voices

Bern (ots) - Researchers have developed a method for triggering auditory hallucinations in healthy people. They are investigating the causes of a phenomenon that can be a huge burden for people with psychiatric illnesses. Studies indicate that five to ten per cent of all people sometimes hear voices - those of dead relatives or higher beings, for example - without having any kind of illness. In other words, the phenomenon is not restricted to people with psychiatric ...

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New SNSF Foundation Council from 2024

Bern (ots) - The new SNSF Foundation Council has been elected. Smaller in size, it brings together leading figures from science, business and government, and will take up its duties at the beginning of 2024. The SNSF is a foundation under private law with a funding mandate under public law. As the senior governing body, the Foundation Council is responsible for ensuring that the foundation stays on mission and for ...

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Covid-19: Research findings form the basis for scientific communication with public authorities

Bern (ots) - Insights into Covid-19, recommendations for health authorities and vaccines: the findings and synthesis report for the Swiss National Science Foundation's National Research Programme "Covid-19" (NRP 78) were presented today. The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) launched the National Research ...

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Phosphorous - too much in lakes, too little in the soil

Bern (ots) - Over-fertilised waterways, impoverished soils: the use of phosphorous in agriculture is creating a dilemma, and it all began thousands of years ago. This has been verified by an analysis funded by the SNSF. It is well known that phosphorous from agricultural fertilisation and wastewater is harmful to lakes. But the entry of phosphorous into water is also contributing to the scarcity of this substance, which ...

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The expert on pain in children

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Do bacteria make you fat? Prizewinner Maria Luisa Balmer is looking for answers

MAVERICKS Life Co.

Latest Sports & Fitness Innovation: Holistic Training Syllabus by MAVERICKS Life Co.

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Sports science & wellbeing education company, MAVERICKS Life Co., announces the release of its new Holistic Training Syllabus, rooted in evolutionary biology and epigenetics theory. It's a brand new innovation in the sports and fitness sector. Recent scientific studies* have led to groundbreaking development that is ...

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On a quest for new particles

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Agency photos aestheticise dying

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The ocean supermodeller

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Stacking - a route to higher-performance solid-state batteries