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.

AI-generated images and videos pose a threat to democratic processes and undermine trust within society. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed chip technology that enables verification of the authenticity of sensor data including images or videos. 

Future lunar missions may rely on a fibre-optic cables to assess vital sub-surface structures. Researchers at ETH Zurich are investigating whether lightweight optical fibres - like those used for internet communication on Earth - could be deployed on the Moon to detect seismic activity and reveal its interior structures.

Whether a plant can draw water from the soil depends on the soil's physical properties, not the plant itself. This explains why previous programmes aimed at cultivating drought-resistant plants have never been successful. 

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.

When a virus enters the lungs, the immune system has to react fast. The lung maintains its own community of immune cells capable of mounting a local defense on the spot. Researchers from the University of Basel now describe the role of a specialized group of cells that orchestrates this local response, directing neighboring immune cells to work together. Their findings could pave the way for new inhalable vaccines against respiratory viruses such as influenza.

A study by UNIGE and EMBL shows how differences in tissue mechanical properties shape the diversity of forms across species.