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Scientists have identified a new experimental malaria drug able to cope with resistant strains of the deadly disease with just one dose.
A global group of scientists has said a United Nations panel should avoid advocacy and rely only on solid evidence when making predictions about climate change.
Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter says the visit by a group of Swiss health and science experts he led to Brazil confirmed its emerging importance in the sectors.
Historic audio recordings from the Nuremberg Trials of notorious Nazi war criminals look set to be made available to the public thanks to a unique Swiss system.
Astronomers have found a new planetary system with as many as seven planets orbiting a sun-like star “ 127 light years from Earth.
Cows and sheep produce not only milk and cheese: they also produce the greenhouse gas methane.
Electric vehicles have set off from Geneva on an epic 80-day race around the world that aims to be carbon emission-free.
As flooding in Pakistan disrupts millions of lives, and huge areas of Russian forest burn, many people are wondering whether they are linked.
A cranial fossil found more than 100 years ago in a cave near the northern Swiss city of Schaffhausen may well belong to the oldest domestic dog in the world.
Imports of illegal medicines into Switzerland jumped by 75 per cent in the first half of this year “ a situation causing concern among health officials.
Scientists are preparing for an unusual expedition as they board a hot-air balloon which is to fly over Kilimanjaro.
A Swiss researcher has called for financial perks to counter a persistent shortage of organ donations in Switzerland.
Crow™s feet? Creased forehead? Sweaty armpits? Botox is regularly touted as a solution in the Swiss media, but few reports mention the animal cruelty involved.
Estonia should be solving some crimes faster in future, armed with Swiss technologies that allow for bodies to be examined digitally and without an autopsy.
There have been reasons for both optimism and pessimism at the International Aids Conference in Vienna, a Swiss delegate says.
This week™s record-breaking night flight by the Solar Impulse aircraft has been widely acclaimed, but few of us are ever likely to fly in such a plane.
The huge solar dragonfly made a final historic loop over Payerne airfield then gently glided onto the runway to loud applause “ just over 26 hours after taking off.
Solar Impulse on Thursday became the first ever manned solar-powered aircraft in aviation history to fly through the night with no fuel.
People who have synaesthesia, a neurological condition where people associate colours with letters and numbers, may be more creative than others.
Ebola and Marburg are headed for the Bernese Oberland “ in a controlled fashion. Lakeside Spiez is the home of a new maximum-security biological laboratory.
Researchers have recreated the sounds set to be made by particles like the elusive Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near Geneva.