10+ hour, 25+ min ago   (335+ words) Between 2019 and 2022, an average of 0.19 cycling accidents were recorded per 100,000 kilometres cycled in Switzerland – compared with 0.09 in the Netherlands, as shown by the analysis published in the specialist journal Journal of Safety Research. For the study, researchers from the University…...

11+ hour, 13+ min ago   (184+ words) Every year, 20,000 cases of sepsis are recorded in Swiss hospitals, 4,000 of which prove fatal. According to the press release, the number of deaths is therefore comparable to that of breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined. In Bern, patient and family…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1327+ words) I cover climate change and energy through reportages, articles, interviews and in-depth reports. I am interested in the impacts of global warming on everyday life and solutions for an emission-free planet. Passionate about travel and discovery, I studied biology and…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (250+ words) A research team from Swiss federal research institutes Empa (material science), Eawag (aquatic science) and Agroscope (agriculture) has, for the first time, systematically investigated atmospheric microplastic pollution, as Empa announced on Thursday. According to the researchers, around 78 tonnes of this…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (470+ words) The awards recognise research that sounds so bizarre that one can’t help but laugh at first. That is precisely the principle behind the Ig Nobel Prizes: “It makes people laugh, then think.” The prizes have been awarded for 35 years. Until…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1158+ words) The world’s largest vitamin E factory is located in Sisseln, in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland. Vitamins have been produced there since the 1970s, and around a third of the world’s vitamin E comes from the site. Silvia Sonneveld,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1391+ words) At this year’s Swiss Biotech Day in Basel in May, 12 Chinese companies – nearly double last year’s number – attended with the support of the China hub of Swiss Global Enterprise, the official government export and investment organisation. At least another 15 Chinese…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (190+ words) SWI swissinfo.ch Swiss government backs federal ban on conversion therapy The Swiss government has indicated that uniform legislation against so-called conversion measures is sensible. The patchwork of cantonal regulations makes it worth considering legislation at a federal level. In…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (247+ words) The latest incident took place on Sunday evening. At around 7:00 pm, a 27-year-old German man was trying to swim to a small island to rescue a friend when he himself got into difficulty. Despite rescue efforts, the young man died…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (243+ words) swissinfo.ch Novartis halts clinical trials following patient deaths At the end of August, Novartis halted several clinical trials of experimental cell therapies for autoimmune diseases in the fields of immunology and neuroscience, following the deaths of three patients. The…...