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04.03.2010From “Horizons”: Intense political campaigns help to educate

Only a limited number of referendum campaigns end up swaying opinion in Switzer...

04.03.2010'Horizons' looks at virtual autopsies

The digital future of forensics is in Switzerland. Researchers from the Nationa...

05.01.20103D cinema for the human spine

Picture from research: New, more accurate screening method

09.12.2009NCCR sesam: A Positive Review for the SNSF from the Swiss Federal Supervisory Board for Foundations

The Swiss Federal Supervisory Board for Foundations gave the Swiss National Sci...

30.11.2009How calcium ions control muscle power

Innovative microscope sheds unique light on muscle cells

27.10.2009Exploring the origins of olfactory emotions

Picture from research: NCCR Affective Sciences study on the perception of odours

30.09.2009SNSF news service: information fast and personalised

In its constant endeavour to supply information targeted to needs, the SNSF now...

07.09.2009Stimulating the economy

Technology transfer projects approved

31.08.2009The many facets of poverty

Picture of the month: Nationwide poverty distribution patterns mapped for the first time in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

31.07.2009When the Rigi was in Jerusalem

Picture of the month: First map of Swiss Confederation reinterpreted

21.07.2009Broad consensus in favour of imam training in Switzerland

Should imams and Muslim religious teachers be allowed to train at Swiss univers...

08.07.2009SNSF launches NRP 65

SNSF issues public call for pre-proposals for the National Research Programme «...

03.07.2009NCCR SESAM: SNSF makes recommendations in the Lesson Learned report

In its Lesson Learned report just published, the Swiss National Science Foundat...

08.06.2009Growing impact of urban freight traffic

Picture of the month: NFP 54 investigates concealed traffic problem in conurbations

08.06.2009MHV Prize: Award for a young women researcher

The SNSF awards its newly created Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) prize for the first ...

26.05.2009Salmonella and self-sacrifice

Picture of the month: How diarrhoea pathogens multiply in our intestines

06.05.2009SNSF launches NRP 60

SNSF issues public call for pre-proposals for the National Research Programme &...

28.04.2009Operating according to plan

Picture of the month: Individual three-dimensional organ models make planning operations easier

24.03.2009Live data from the Matterhorn and Jungfraujoch

Sensor network

24.02.2009Right-wing extremism in Switzerland

Final results of the NRP 40+

20.02.2009Shedding light on protein structures

Picture of the month: Basic knowledge for the development of new medicines

16.02.2009NRP 63 is launched

SNSF issues a public call for pre-proposals for the National Research Programme...

29.01.2009An innovative conference archiving solution

Picture of the month: Information management

12.01.2009nano-tera.ch: ten projects chosen

nano-tera.ch, the Swiss initiative in engineering sciences, will support ten bi...

22.12.2008A new view of Swiss urban centres

Picture of the month: NRP 54 presents urban district typology

26.11.2008Future propagation scenarios

Picture of the month: Invasive plants

23.10.2008«SCIENCEsuisse» – 25 short films and a book on cutting-edge research in Switzerland

The «SCIENCEsuisse» book and short films give an introduction to the intriguing...

21.10.2008In matters of sexual differentiation the tree frog is still something of a greenhorn

Picture of the month: Sexual differentiation

24.09.2008Progress towards personalized doses in cancer treatment

Picture of the month: Radiotherapy

22.09.2008FORCE – 10 years of funding SNSF projects at CERN

A new brochure with contributions from those involved illuminates the ten year ...

05.09.2008Thomas Stocker elected Co-chairman of the IPCC's 'Science' Working Group

Professor Thomas Stocker, a leading climate scientist at the University of Bern...

27.08.2008Air conditioning is often unnecessary

Energy consumption

26.08.2008New LIDAR system sees the sky in 3D

On August 26, EPFL, the Swiss National Science Foundation and Switzerland's Nat...

29.07.2008Keeping a watchful eye at all times

Monitoring floods

01.07.2008The Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau: Motivation and support of young scientists at the highest level

The Swiss National Science Foun...

24.06.2008Tinies take to a wind tunnel

Picture of the month: Fruit flies in a flight simulator

26.05.2008Getting to the heart of fluid flows

Picture of the month: Mudslides and avalanches

31.03.2008Development of a method for the early diagnosis of bronchial cancer

Picture of the month: Success in basic research

14.03.2008Eight SystemsX.ch Projects chosen

The first eight Research Technology and Development projects that SystemsX.ch, ...

28.02.2008Creating more frugal towns

Picture of the month: Energy consumption