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A global expert panel led by HUG, UNIGE and the Salpêtrière Hospital advocate that clinical signs as well as biomarkers must be taken into account.

Hochschule für Life Sciences Iron detection is important in many areas, from the food industry to health research and machine maintenance.

Over time, the English language has acquired quite a few Yiddish words, such as bagel. Some are now no longer even recognizable as such.

In times of climate crisis and food shortages, the cultivation of microalgae is a promising solution that could fundamentally change the way we produce animal feed, bioplastics or biofuel.

EPFL chemical engineers have developed a way to build metal clusters - with near atomic precision - in a method that has the potential to improve catalysts and accelerate chemical reactions including turning carbon dioxide into high value chemicals like methanol.

A secure supply of electricity from renewable energies can only succeed if we also modernise the grid infrastructure.

Calculate and improve climate footprint more effectively thanks to new model So far, there have been no concepts for tourism in the net-zero climate strategy, partly due to a lack of concrete data.

The mission of Eawag's Sandec department is to find global solutions for safe sanitation and clean drinking water.

Pioneer Fellow Hao Liu uses lasers to produce microfilament structures to grow biological tissue in the lab for research and medicine - from muscle tissue to cartilage.

A sustainable transition to a climate-friendly and biodiversity-rich Switzerland is only possible if we tackle the energy transition, climate change mitigation and biodiversity loss together.

Originally developed for electric cars, nowadays they supply mobile phone antennas with electricity, and tomorrow perhaps entire districts: The salt battery is a safe and long-lasting battery technology with huge potential. researchers are collaborating with an industrial partner to further develop these special batteries.

With the help of VR glasses and playful exercises, tele-rehabilitation of patients is to be made more attractive.

Steering and navigating manual wheelchairs on pavements costs wheelchair users a lot of energy and places a strain on their joints.

Industries such as retail and tourism have long relied on AI programs such as ChatGPT to support them in their daily work. The new "IFZ Generative AI in Finance Study" by Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts shows for the first time what banks and insurance companies can learn from other industries when using such generative AI software.

In the future, buildings will provide enhanced, more personalized comfort to occupants while also achieving zero carbon emissions. This will be possible thanks to advances in sensors and AI, enabling new ways of interacting with our environments while leaving ultimate control in occupants' hands. Yet, as users, we'll also need to make lasting changes to our habits.

Recent evidence shows that one in nine women are diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime.

People who use SRG news also consume commuter, tabloid, and subscription media more frequently than those who do not. Furthermore, the use of SRG news does not detrimentally affect people's willingness to pay for online news. These are the findings of the Yearbook Quality of the Media 2024 published by the University of Zurich's Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög).

How widespread are infectious diseases in Ticino today? Enos Bernasconi, professor at the Faculty of Biomedicine of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and deputy head physician at Ente Ospe

NASA's Europa Clipper was launched on October 14, 2024, on its mission to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa.

While living matter can advance technology and render human activities more efficient and eco-friendly, the way in which we currently fabricate materials containing living cells is far from sustainable. Miriam Filippi calls us to rethink our biofabrication practices. I am a researcher in the field of soft robotics working on developing bioinspired artificial muscle tissues.

With climate change, hot and dry summers are becoming more frequent, causing water shortages in some regions of Switzerland.

Good news from the Swiss real estate industry: in principle, a significant proportion of investors are prepared to forego returns in the short term in order to invest in sustainability.

More and more electrical devices in households are producing more and more data.