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13/01/2023

Switzerland and US sign deal on pharmaceutical supply chain

US and Swiss authorities have agreed to share inspection documents on pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in a move to improve efficiency and safety in the drug supply chain. According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the Good Manufacturing Practice…
11/10/2022

Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit

Rapidly evolving science breakthroughs will define the 21st Century. Diplomatic decision-makers must envision and develop reliable and resilient solutions for addressing the impact of science breakthroughs. With the future prosperity of society at stake, responsive and flexible diplomatic measures are…
04/03/2022

Geneva science-diplomacy project gets more government backing

The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), a project that aims to pre-empt the societal impacts of technological change, has won the financial support of the Swiss government for the next 10 years. After a three-year pilot phase, the foundation…
28/02/2022

Swiss Re takes $4 billion hit from Covid and natural disasters

Swiss Re, one of the world’s biggest reinsurers, took a combined hit of more than $4 billion (CHF3.7 billion) last year from the Covid-19 pandemic and a series of natural catastrophes. Pandemic-related claims of $2 billion came mostly from the…
20/02/2022

A life devoted to chimpanzees

Swiss-born Daniel Hänni has spent most of his adult life working with chimpanzees. As part of his efforts to protect them, he has dedicated the past 15 years to restocking the forests of Uganda. Hänni from the northern Swiss canton…
09/12/2021

EU gives cold shoulder to Swiss weather forecasters

MeteoSwiss, which had been part of a European project to develop a virtual model of the Earth, has been excluded due to the tensions around the ditched framework agreement between Bern and Brussels. The European Union (EU)’s “Destination Earth” aims…
08/12/2021

By Jupiter! Researchers discover surprising new gas giant

An international team of scientists, including several Swiss, have captured an image of a giant gaseous exoplanet orbiting two massive suns in a distant solar system, a configuration that researchers until now thought might be impossible. The planet was spotted…
03/12/2021

Omicron variant enters Switzerland. Will we be able to save Christmas?

Christmas is coming, but what kind of Christmas will it be? Many of us were already planning family holidays or a much-needed winter trip to some exotic destination. And then along came Omicron, yet another ‘worrying’ variant of the coronavirus….
02/12/2021

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts linked to fake Swiss biologist

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has dismantled a social media operation, orchestrated from China, which used an account of a fictitious Swiss biologist named Wilson Edwards to fuel tensions with the United States. On July 24, an account posing…

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