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A new publication by Swiss TPH and partners defines a global research agenda to tackle noma - a devastating and life-threatening disease mainly affecting children living in extreme poverty.

Traditional large-scale power generators ensure a stable frequency of alternating current in the European power grid.

The planned space missions to search for remote life will provide valuable insights even if they do not find any evidence of life, says astrophysicist Daniel Angerhausen.

The City of Mendrisio, in collaboration with Handy System and SUPSI's Service for Forensic Informatics (SIF), presented DEEP: a video-translator totem equipped with a camera capable of recording and translating from Italian Sign Language (LIS) to Italian and vice versa.

Avalanche bulletin and snow situation To enhance biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial systems, natural areas of high ecological value need to be interconnected. However, the necessary collaboration between different stakeholders is often lacking, particularly in urban areas. This is shown by a new study as part of the Blue-Green Biodiversity research initiative.

To enhance biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial systems, natural areas of high ecological value need to be interconnected. However, the necessary collaboration between different stakeholders is often lacking, particularly in urban areas. This is shown by a new study as part of the 'Blue-Green Biodiversity' Research Initiative.

Once confined to Latin America, Chagas disease has become a global health concern, affecting thousands in Europe as well.

A Swiss Italian team has created RoboCake, an edible robotic wedding cake that illustrates the advances in robotic food research.

A system developed at EPFL uses augmented reality (AR) to help carpenters make extremely precise timber cuts without having to measure or mark up beams.

Regional news stories, as well as TV series, highlight an increasingly relevant issue: the phenomenon of hate speech on social networks.

About 10,000: it is the number of DNA lesions that every cell in our body undergoes per day. Such a number can be scary at first glance. One almost wonders how cells survive - indeed, how we survive - if our DNA is damaged to this extent on a daily basis. Repairing the damage is fundamental because DNA contains the instructions for cells to function correctly.

Traditional shingle production has inspired researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich to develop new types of wood-based panels made from split wooden sticks. Thanks to an AI-optimized process, these panels should be suitable for load-bearing components in the future - even if produced from lower-quality wood and tree trunks.

Researchers developed a ground-breaking new tool to help build safer AI. Today, almost everybody has heard of AI and millions around the world already use, or are exposed, to it - from ChatGPT writing our emails, to helping in medical diagnosis.

The steady increase in the frequency of antibiotic resistance may not be inevitable. This is the conclusion of a study published in the journal PLOS Pathogens.

Being stuck together in vacation traffic jams is part of the collective travel experience in Switzerland.

The warm season coincides with the period of activity of the insect vector of this disease that can have serious consequences for farm animals.

To contain the spread of the invasive quagga mussel in Swiss lakes, researchers recommend swift action based on comprehensive prevention, early detection and containment.

An international team, including researchers from UNIGE, has revealed that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers that shaped its landscape. The Empty Quarter (Rub' al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape.

Small language models are more reliable and secure than their large counterparts, primarily because they draw information from a circumscribed dataset.

Researchers from Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) have received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for ten proposals covering a diverse range of topics.