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The nursing crisis is on everyone's lips, and creates additional challenges for healthcare staff. A report by the University of Basel shows how satisfied psychiatric nursing staff are with their daily working lives. Irregular working hours, night shifts and overtime: it's not news that nursing is a challenging profession.

A Europe-wide research project shows where and how "anti-gender" policies manifest themselves in different countries. It also exists in Switzerland, as a partial study by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the University of Lausanne and the University of Fribourg shows. 'Anti-gender' policy refers to efforts aimed at restricting sexual and gender diversity and gender equality.

An EPFL engineer has developed a forecasting model that factors in not just our commuting habits, but also our activities during the day.

PSI researchers are developing a technique that uses the special synchrotron X-ray light from the Swiss Light Source SLS to non-destructively digitise recordings from high-value historic audio tapes

Public cloud services employ special security technologies. Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have now discovered a gap in the latest security mechanisms used by AMD and Intel chips.

How can the forestry and timber industry be encouraged to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere by using local wood? Two projects from Central Switzerland demonstrate this.

The Basel spin-off company Bottneuro is developing a personalized treatment helmet - the Miamind neurostimulator.

A Swiss collaboration has been designated a member of the WHO's CoViNet network for the detection and surveillance of coronaviruses.

The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL presents its 2035 research strategy.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a smartphone app that can be used to check the authenticity of documents and other items.

A study by BEAM researchers, published in "Science of Learning", offers new insights into brain mechanisms linked to differences in associative learning. This research explores how attentional processes influence learning performance, shedding light on our understanding of how the brain works to create relationships between information .

22 March is the World Water Day. Water power has so much more to offer. Engineers are working hard to both expand this form of clean energy and make better use of existing hydropower plants. Hydropower fell out of fashion in the late 20th century owing to nuclear power and extremely low electricity prices.

The forest is more than just a collection of trees. This is impressively demonstrated by the www.waldnutzen.ch website developed in Central Switzerland.

One way to lighten the construction industry's heavy carbon footprint is to reuse existing materials - an approach being explored by numerous researchers.

Despite several global crises, Central Switzerland's economy is robust and companies are optimistic about the future.

Live streaming and recorded lectures mean students can easily keep up with a class without ever setting foot in the classroom.

From the desert to Swiss industry: As part of the new Mining the Atmosphere initiative, researchers are pursuing the goal of harvesting renewable energy in the Earth's sun belt, converting it several times and transporting it over long distances to where it is needed.

In the fight against climate change, Switzerland has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 as part of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Das ETH-Spin-off dAIgnose entwickelt einen Algorithmus, mit dem sich Ultraschallaufnahmen der Gebärmutter automatisiert auswerten lassen. Dieser sollte es Ärzten ermöglichen, Endometriose in Zukunft schneller zu diagnostizieren. Endometriosis is widespread. Around ten percent of all women of childbearing age throughout the world suffer from it.

Forests contain a lot of biodiversity and provide many ecosystem services such as carbon storage, wood production, and cooling. However, there is an important difference between the biodiversity and services provided by forest cores and forest edges. This is shown in an international study led by the University of Ghent with the collaboration of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.

We can transition to pesticide-free agriculture without converting to organic farming. Robert Finger outlines the advantages and challenges involved.

The impoverishment of our ecosystems due to unregulated land development and pollution is a critical issue that has gained significant importance.

Two new publishing agreements have come into effect with the scientific publishers British medical journal BMJ (in the biomedical field) and Taylor & Francis T&F (multidisciplinary).