Variable-stiffness endoscopes enable treatment in hard-to-reach areas

A study by UNIGE and MHNG shows that 240-million-year-old coelacanths could hear underwater using an ossified lung.

To increase the biodiversity of meadows, less intensive management is not always enough. Sometimes meadows also need to be actively resown. As part of a research project on the Swiss Plateau, researchers from the University of Bern tested various methods for restoring plant diversity in meadows and demonstrated their effectiveness: After four years, all the methods used had led to effective restoration, with an average increase of 29 percent in the number of plant species present.

Long considered unrealistic, electron microscopy-based connectomics has established itself as a revolution in neuroscience.

For the first time in the world, a team of physicists from the BASE experiment at CERN have succeeded in transporting a trap containing antiprotons across the laboratory's main site on board a truck.