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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.

Giulia Tagliabue, a tenure-track assistant professor in mechanical engineering, has won the EPFL Award for Best Teaching.

Fabrizio Colella, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), received the Ezio Tarantelli Prize - awarded annually by the Italian Association of Labo

In many countries in Africa, up to nine out of ten children suffer from a skin problem, and there are far too few local dermatologists.

As a journalist, do you have general questions about PSI? Are you looking for an expert on your topic?  Get in touch with our ESA comes to Switzerland The signing of a contract between the European Space Agency ESA and PSI marks the start of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre ESDI.

In summer 2024, the South African government published a strategy paper on the management of e-waste, which was developed in collaboration with Empa.

Mariam Issoufou is one of Africa's most sought-after architects. She has held the position of Professor of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability at ETH Zurich since 2022.

Sophie Delhay, an architect and EPFL professor, is promoting an entirely new approach to designing and building homes.

A research team of political scientists from various institutions, including the University of Lucerne, has conducted research into polarizing emotions towards political parties and their leading politicians.

Throughout their lifespan, cells must continuously activate and deactivate genes. This process is regulated by transcription factors, a class of proteins that control gene expression by binding to DNA.